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Theater director Caden Cotard is mounting a new play. His life catering to suburban blue-hairs at the local regional theater in Schenectady, N.Y., is looking bleak. His wife Adele has left him to pursue her painting in Berlin, taking their young daughter Olive with her. His therapist, Madeleine Gravis, is better at plugging her best-seller than she is at counseling him. A new relationship with the alluringly candid Hazel has prematurely run aground. And a mysterious condition is systematically shutting down each of his autonomic functions, one by one. Worried about the transience of his life, he leaves his home behind. He gathers an ensemble cast into a warehouse in New York City, hoping to create a work of brutal honesty. He directs them in a celebration of the mundane, instructing each to live out their constructed lives in a growing mockup of the city outside. The years rapidly fold into each other, and Caden buries himself deeper into his masterpiece, but the textured tangle of real and theatrical relationships blurs the line between the world of the play and that of Caden's own deteriorating reality.

Production
Likely Story; Projective Testing Service; Russia; Sidney Kimmel Entertainment;

Cast Names
John Borras; Kevin Cannon; Alan Gary; Don Gomez; Scott Hatfield; Misha Zubarev; Brigitte Hagerman; Takako Haywood; Rebecca Merle; Philip Seymour Hoffman; Catherine Keener; Sadie Goldstein; Tom Noonan; Peter Friedman; Charles Techman; Josh Pais; Daniel London; Robert Seay; Michelle Williams; Stephen Adly Guirgis; Samantha Morton; Hope Davis; Frank Girardeau; Jennifer Jason Leigh; Amy Wright; Paul Sparks; Jerry Adler; Lynn Cohen; Deirdre O'Connell; Kat Peters;

Box Office
USD 3,081,925

Release Date
2008-10-19 (Chicago International Film Festival)
2008-10-24 (limited)
2009-03-10 (DVD premiere)

Genres
Drama;

MPAA Rating [?]
Rated R for language and some sexual content/nudity.

Running Time
2 hr. 4 min.

Director
Charlie Kaufman

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