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Overview
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Director:
Writer (WGA):
Charlie Kaufman (written by)
Release Date:
5 February 2009 (Netherlands)
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Plot:
A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
5 wins
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8 nominations
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NewsDesk:
(9 articles)
DVD Playhouse--March 2009
(From The Hollywood Interview. 10 March 2009, 11:25 PM, PDT)
Rourke Steals The Show At The Independent Spirit Awards
(From WENN. 21 February 2009, 5:23 PM, PST)
(From The Hollywood Interview. 10 March 2009, 11:25 PM, PDT)
Rourke Steals The Show At The Independent Spirit Awards
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The Living Theater Of Charlie Kaufman
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Philip Seymour Hoffman | ... | Caden Cotard |
 | Catherine Keener | ... | Adele Lack |
 | Sadie Goldstein | ... | Olive (4 years old) |
 | Tom Noonan | ... | Sammy Barnathan |
 | Peter Friedman | ... | Emergency Room Doctor |
| Charles Techman | ... | Like Clockwork Patient |
 | Josh Pais | ... | Dr. Eisenberg (Opthamologist) |
 | Daniel London | ... | Tom |
 | Robert Seay | ... | David |
 | Michelle Williams | ... | Claire Keen |
| Stephen Adly Guirgis | ... | Davis |
 | Samantha Morton | ... | Hazel |
 | Hope Davis | ... | Madeleine Gravis |
| Frank Girardeau | ... | Plumber |
 | Jennifer Jason Leigh | ... | Maria |
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MPAA:
Rated R for language and some sexual content/nudity.
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Runtime:
124 min
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Color (DeLuxe)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Certification:
USA:R |
Australia:M |
Czech Republic:15 |
Norway:11 |
Sweden:Btl |
Netherlands:12 |
New Zealand:M |
Canada:13+ (Quebec) |
Canada:14A (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Ontario) |
UK:15 |
Finland:K-11 |
Ireland:15A |
Singapore:M18 |
Portugal:M/16 |
Mexico:B15 |
Japan:PG12 |
Hong Kong:IIB
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Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary defines "synecdoche" as: "a figure of speech by which a part is put for the whole (as fifty sail for fifty ships), the whole for a part (as society for high society), the species for the genus (as cutthroat for assassin), the genus for the species (as a creature for a man), or the name of the material for the thing made (as boards for stage)."
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Anachronisms: Near the beginning when Olive asks if she can watch television before school, Caden picks up the remote and turns on a television with rotary knobs that would not have remote control functionality.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "The Rotten Tomatoes Show: Watchmen/Shuttle/12 (#1.2)" (2009)
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Soundtrack:
Song for Caden
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It was bound to happen. The brilliant writer of "Being John Malkovich", "Adaptation" and "Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind" made his directorial debut. Interesting, yes, without question, but self conscious to the point of distraction. Kaufman's mind with all its implications is a the center of this dream colored by illness and paranoia. Strange echoes of Julian Beck and Luis Bunuel made the experience rather gripping but I must confess I felt the need to run home and take a long shower after the film and read something funny, I selected Alan Bennet's "Uncommon Reader" It worked. I may even go again to see this Charlie Kaufman film with its unpronounceable title. I guess that even that is on purpose, so we all can refer to it as Charlie Kaufman's movie. Philip Seymour Hoffman is great, as usual. This time I also felt his body odor. Yuck! I remember Hoffman's dirty fingernails even when he was playing Truman Capote so I presume that is the actor's trait and not the character's, although, here, the filth that he exudes matches perfectly his story. Catherine Keener and Emily Watson are also superb but Samantha Morton, once again, got me completely. I will advise you to see it, at your own risk.