Oscar-winning writer Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut, SYNECDOCHE NEW YORK, "one of the best films of the year" (Manohla Dargis, NEW YORK TIMES), follows the life of regional theater director Caden Cotard (Hoffman) as he struggles with romantic relationships (Morton, Williams and Keener), as well as the problems of aging, and a mysteriously degenerative medical condition. He develops all this into a monumental theater piece. Building a full-scale replica of New York City inside an impossibly large warehouse and populating it with thousands of actors, Cotard spends the remainder of his life creating a piece so personal and epic in scope, that the line between reality and art collide, and the universe that he has created swallows up everything within it.