Synecdoche, New York (2008)

Name: Synecdoche, New York (2008)
Start: 2026-02-18T19:00:00-05:00
Location: Tampa Theatre

Schedule

Wed, 18 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Tampa Theatre | Tampa, FL

Part of the Big Picture series
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2h 4m / R / Drama
TRAILER:

VENUE: Historic Duncan Auditorium
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Synecdoche, New York is Charlie Kaufman’s 2008 semi-psychedelic drama about a stage director (Philip Seymour Hoffman) whose life is falling apart. Unexpectedly getting some good news and a new opportunity, he decides to create a work which requires building out an enormous warehouse into a 1:1 scale model of New York City itself, with a cast who are asked to simply live out their normal lives inside.
Every director holds in tension the desire to create a world which they control down to the most minute detail, and the truth that interest and excitement come from the unpredictable input of other people; and so, as his model necessarily expands, the boundaries between what is play and what is life blur. The work becomes a world itself, cut off and twisted but real.