Philip Seymour Hoffman plays Caden, an eccentric theatre director. His latest play is a recreation of his life, set inside a huge warehouse. But as fantasy and reality start to collide, Caden struggles with the women in his life. With Catherine Keener.

Film Trivia

• Caden's surname, Cotard, is a reference to Cotard's syndrome. This is a disorder in which a person believes that they are physically decaying, or even already dead.
• Synecdoche has numerous meanings. It is a figure of speech, a species and a certain type of material.
• There is some confusion over the pronunciation of the title of this film. Phonetically, it is pronounced sin-neck-duh-kee.
• Phillip Seymour Hoffman's character says 'Harold Pinter has died. Oh, no, wait- he's won the Nobel Prize'. This is a reference to a slip up on Sky News where the presenter announced that Pinter had died when really he'd won an award.

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