Charlie Kaufman, despite usually being hailed as the main man behind the likes of Being John Malkovich and Adaptation, has decided that what he really wants to do is direct.
And now that the script for Synecdoche, his first crack at calling the shots, is complete, he’s been able to attract a couple of top-notch thesps to star. Philip Seymour Hoffman, who walked off with the Best Actor Oscar for Capote, will star alongside Brokeback Mountain's Michelle Williams, who herself just missed out on her own statuette.
The film itself sounds like typically offbeat Kaufman fare – it focuses on an anguished playwright dealing with several women in his life. As for that title? It’s defined as "a figure of speech in which the word for part of something is used to mean the whole." An example from dictionary corner, you cry? How about the use of the phrase wiser heads to mean wiser people…
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