“Theater director Caden Cotard is mounting a new play. Fresh off of a successful production of Death of a Salesman, he has traded in the suburban blue-hairs and regional theater of Schenectady for the cultured audiences and bright footlights of Broadway. Armed with a MacArthur grant and determined to create a piece of brutal realism and honesty, something into which he can put his whole self, he gathers an ensemble cast into a warehouse in Manhattan’s theater district. He directs them in a celebration of the mundane, instructing each to live out their constructed lives in a small mockup of the city outside. As the city inside the warehouse grows, Caden’s own life veers wildly off the tracks. The shadow of his ex-wife Adele, a celebrated painter who left him years ago for Germany’s art scene, sneers at him from every corner. Somewhere in Berlin, his daughter Olive is growing up under the questionable guidance of Adele’s friend, Maria. He’s helplessly driving his marriage to actress Claire into the ground. Sammy Barnathan, the actor Caden has hired to play himself within the play, is a bit too perfect for the part, and is making it difficult for Caden to revive his relationship with the alluringly candid Hazel. Meanwhile, his therapist, Madeline Gravis, is better at plugging her best-seller than she is at counseling him. His is second daughter, Ariel, is disabled. And a mysterious condition is systematically shutting down each of his autonomic functions, one by one. As the years rapidly pass, Caden buries himself deeper into his masterpiece. Populating the cast and crew with doppelgangers, he steadily blurs the line between the world of the play and that of his own deteriorating reality. As he pushes the limits of his relationships, both personally and professionally, a change in creative direction arrives in Millicent Weems, a celebrated theater actress who may offer Caden the break he needs.”
- Director: Charlie Kaufman
- Release Date: 5 February 2009 (Netherlands)
- Run Time: 124 min
- Country: USA
- Genre: Comedy , Drama
- MPAA: Rated R for language and some sexual content/nudity.
Trivia: Philip Seymour Hoffman’s character’s last name is a reference to the Cotard delusion or Cotard’s syndrome, also known as nihilistic or negation delusion, which is a rare neuropsychiatric disorder in which a person holds a delusional belief that he or she is dead, does not exist, is putrefying or has lost his/her blood or internal organs.
Goofs: Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Announcer on the radio at the very beginning says it’s 22 September. The newspaper is dated in October, it’s Christmas when the sinks smashes his forehead, New Year’s on the ride home and March in the ophthalmologist’s office. Kaufman afforded his film a dreamlike quality by playing with the representation of time throughout.Cast
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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