Synecdoche, New York (Blu-ray)

From the writer of Adaptation, Being John Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Theater director Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is mounting a new play. His life catering to suburban blue-hairs at the local regional theater in Schenectady, New York is looking bleak. His wife Adele (Catherine Keener) has left him to pursue her painting in Berlin, taking their young daughter Olive with her. 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 town deteriorating reality.

Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Michelle Williams, Samantha Morton, Tilda Swinton, Emily Watson, Josh Pais, Tim Guinee, Frank Girardeau, Jerry Adler, Lynn Cohen, Michael Higgins, Paul Sparks, Robert Seay, Sadie Goldstein, Hope Davis, Dianne Wiest, Robin Weigert, Tom Noonan, Daniel London, Erica Berg, Stephen Adly-Guirgis, Michael Medeiros, Daisy Tahan, Jennifer Jason Leigh

Director: Anthony Bregman, Charlie Kaufman, Sidney Kimmel, Spike Jonze

Rating: R