PRINCIPAL CAST

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Hope Davis, Michelle Williams, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Emily Watson, Samantha Morton, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Dianne Wiest, Tim Guinee, Tom Noonan, Josh Pais

DIRECTOR

Charlie Kaufman

WRITER

Charlie Kaufman

PRODUCER

Anthony Bregman, Spike Jonze, Charlie Kaufman, Sidney Kimmel

SYNOPSIS

From the writer of Adaptation, Being John Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Theater director Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is mounting a new play. His life catering to suburban blue-hairs at the local regional theater in Schenectady, New York is looking bleak. His wife Adele (Catherine Keener) has left him to pursue her painting in Berlin, taking their young daughter Olive with her.

Worried about the transience of his life, he leaves his home behind. He gathers an ensemble cast into a warehouse in New York City, hoping to create a work of brutal honesty. He directs them in a celebration of the mundane, instructing each to live out their constructed lives in a growing mockup of the city outside. The years rapidly fold into each other, and Caden buries himself deeper into his masterpiece, but the textured tangle of real and theatrical relationships blurs the line between the world of the play and that of Caden's town deteriorating reality.

BOX OFFICE

$3.0 Million

GENRE

Drama

RATING

Rated R
language and some sexual content/nudity

RUN TIME

124 Minutes

STUDIO

Sony Pictures Classics