"Synecdoche, New York" Preview & Trailer

Any time you get Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Emily Watson, Dianne Wiest, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Michelle Williams, Samantha Morton, and Hope Davis in a movie together, you’ve gotta think it’s going to be special. You’re talking some of my favorite actors all in one place: “Synecdoche, New York.” So what if you can’t pronounce the movie’s title?

More after the jump, including a trailer…

Hoffman plays theater director Caden Cotard, who’s working on a new play. His suburban life catering to blue-hairs at the local regional theater in Schenectady, New York is looking bleak. His wife Adele (Keener) has left him to pursue her painting in Berlin, taking their young daughter Olive (Sadie Goldstein) with her. His therapist, Madeleine Gravis (Davis), is better at plugging her best-seller than she is at counseling him. A new relationship with the alluring Hazel (Morton) has run aground. And a mysterious condition is systematically shutting down each of his nervous-system functions, one by one.

His solution: Leave his home behind, gather an ensemble cast into a warehouse in New York City, and create a work of brutal and mundane honesty. Looking forward to seeing this one. Check out the trailer:

Image: Synecdoche, New York; Sony Pictures Classics, 2008