| Cast |
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Sadie Goldstein, Tom Noonan, Peter Friedman, Charles Techman, Josh Pais, Daniel London, Robert Seay, Michell Williams, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Samantha Morton |
| Director |
Charlie Kaufman |
| Screenplay | Charlie Kaufman |
| Music | Jon Brion |
| Cinematography | Frederick Elmes |
| Editing | Robert Frazen |
| Sound formats | Dolby Digital, DTS |
| Soundtrack | Available |
| Made in | 2008 |
| Produced by | Likely Story, Projective Testing Service, Russia, Sidney Kimmel Entertainment |
Official Site | IMDB page
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| Genre | Comedy, drama |
| Language | Strong |
| Nudity | Some |
| Sex | Some |
| Violence | None |
| Prejudice | None |
| Blasphemy | None |
| Drug abuse | None |
| Comments | Offbeat, somewhat surrealistic, comedy drama with compelx adult themes and bittersweet, at times bleak tone. |
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| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| Cape Argus / The Star Theresa Smith | 10 |  |
| Cape Times Carina Chocano | 15 |  |
| The Citizen Natalie Bosman | 14 | |
| Sunday Times Barry Ronge | 13 |  |
| 24.com Shaheema Barodien | 10 | |
| Chicago Sunday Times Roger Ebert  This is a film with the richness of great fiction. | 20 | |
| eye Weekly Jason Anderson | 15 | |
| ReelViews James Berardinelli This is the kind of maddening, overstuffed, overambitious, self-indulgent motion picture that will divide critics and viewers (those few who see it). | 10 | |
| Rolling Stone Peter Travers Synecdoche, New York is exhilarating and exasperating in equal doses. | 13 | |
| Metacritic.com 33 critics | 13 | |
| Rottentomatoes critics 112 critics | 13 | |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Charlie Kaufman's ambitious directorial debut occasionally strains to connect, but ultimately provides fascinating insight into a writer's mind. | 13 | |
What the People say | ||
| Internet 1676 Netizens We are all the STAR of our own play. | 16 | |
Average .. 67% | 13 | |