Synecdoche, New York
(DVD) 

Originally produced as a motion picture in 2008.

Special features: Featurettes: In and around Synecdoche, New York (19 min.); The story of Caden Cotard (12 min.); Infectious diseases in cattle: bloggers' roundtable (37 min.); Screen animations (5 min.); NFTS/Script factory masterclass with Charlie Kaufman (28 min.); Trailer (3 min.); Previews (6 min.).

Director of photography, Frederick Elmes ; production designer, Mark Friedberg ; editor, Robert Frazen ; costume designer, Melissa Toth ; visual effects supervisor, Mark Russell ; music by Jon Brion.

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams, Catherine Keener, Emily Watson, Dianne Wiest, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Hope Davis, Tom Noonan.

Theater director Caden Cotard is mounting a new play. Determined to create a piece of brutal realism and honesty, he gathers an ensemble cast into a warehouse in Manhattan's theater district. He instructs each to live out their constructed lives in a small mock up of the city outside. As the city inside the warehouse grows, Caden's own life veers wildly off track. His daughter Olive is growing up under questionable guidance. He's helplessly driving his marriage to actress Claire into the ground. His daughter Ariel is mentally handicapped. 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.

DVD ; Region 1 ; 5.1 Dolby Digital surround ; anamorphic widescreen presentation, aspect ratio 2.35:1.

In English with optional subtitles in English; closed-captioned.

Winner, 2009 Independent Spirit Awards for Best First Feature--Charlie Kaufman [director/producer], Anthony Bregman, Spike Jonze, and Sidney Kimmel [producers]; Robert Altman Award--Charlie Kaufman [director], Jeanne McCarthy [casting director], Hope Davis, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Catherine Keener, Samantha Morton, Tom Noonan, Emily Watson, Dianne Wiest, Michelle Williams [cast].