"No film with an ambition this large and an achievement this impressive can be anything but exhilarating. The movie should delight viewers who both work the movie out and surrender to its spell. A miracle movie."

--Richard Corliss, Time

"Kaufman has created a seamless and complicated alternatereality, unsettling nearly every expectation a moviegoer might have about time, psychology and narrative structure.The feelings it explores are clear and accessible. It is a movie bristling with paradoxes and conundrums."

--A. O. Scott, The New York Times

From Charlie Kaufman, perhaps the most distinctive screenwriting voice of our generation, comes a visual and philosophic adventure of epic proportions. Much as he did with his groundbreaking scripts for Being.John Malkovich, Adaptation, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Kaufman twists and subverts the form and language of film as he delves into the mind of a man who, obsessed with his own mortality, sets out to construct a massive artistic enterprise that could give some meaning to his life. Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams, Catherine Keener, Emily Watson, Dianne Wiest, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Hope Davis, and Tom Noonan, and directed by Kaufman, Synecdoche, New York is an epic story of grand artistic ambitions and creative madness.

Introduction by Charlie Kaufman

The Shooting Script

Stills

Q & A with Charlie Kaufman

Cast and Crew Credits

About the Screenwriter/Director