The story
Synecdoche, New York is a 2008 American postmodern psychological drama film written and directed by Charlie Kaufman in his directorial debut. It stars Philip Seymour Hoffman as an ailing theater director who works on an increasingly elaborate stage production and whose extreme commitment to realism begins to blur the boundaries between fiction and reality. The film's title is a play on Schenectady, New York, where much of the film is set, and the concept of synecdoche, wherein a part of something represents the whole or vice versa.
Setting & tone
Synecdoche, New York is set in United States of America and works primarily in English. Tonally it sits in Drama, drawing on the conventions of each while filtering them through Charlie Kaufman's direction.
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