The title says it all. Which leads me to believe that, that empty feeling you walk out of the theater with is exactly what they wanted you to feel.

I remember when I was about 10 and I asked someone who worked in “the biz”, what a Producer does. He said something along the lines of “a bit of everything.” I asked, what that meant. He couldn’t answer. At least he couldn’t come up with an answer that a 10-year-old would be satisfied with. I think this film is exactly that. It is a bit of everything, but doesn’t know exactly what it’s meant to do.

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Charlie Kaufman, the visual genius behind the brilliant scripts “Being John Malkovich”, “Adaptation”, and “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” has created another amazing film starring none other that Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams, Catherine Keener, Emily Watson, Dianne Wiest, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Hope Davis, and Tom Noonan. The only problem… no one seems to be able to pronounce the title… SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK.