Theater director Caden Cotard 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 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. Somewhere in Berlin, his daughter is growing up under the questionable guidance of Adele's friend, Maria. His lingering attachments to both Adeleand Hazel are causing him to helplessly drive his new marriage to actress Claire into the ground. Sammy and Tammy, the actors hired to play Caden and Hazel, are making it difficult for the real Caden to revive his relationship with the real Hazel. 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. The years rapidly fold into each other, and Caden buries himself deeper into his masterpiece. 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.
Well 20 mil is quite a small budget for hollywood standerds and the film was poorly advertised and does not appeal to the genral audience but hopefully itll gain more attention and sales with the dvd
Bukkarooo(July 8, 2009 at 12:29 am)
definitely. anyone who watches Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, also by Kauffman can see that there's still creativity. sadly, the really creative ones are the ones that don't get as much hype or attention... I've not actually seen this movie, but I'll be watching it either tonight or tomorrow.
quicklyintothevoid(July 7, 2009 at 10:38 am)
holy crap, the budget for this was 20 mil and it only grossed 4 mil?i guess im not that surprised, i didn't know this film existed i started researching kaufman.
siggizmuntz(July 5, 2009 at 9:53 pm)
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NicosNicosNicosNicos(July 3, 2009 at 10:43 am)
People live and die in the third world too. My girlfriend is from "the Third World" and we both enjoyed it yesterday.
Matt4n(June 29, 2009 at 2:27 pm)
While it tells you a lot about America that this movie grossed only $4 million at the box office, I hope it doesn't prevent the studios from backing Kauffman in the future. I've seen the film 5X and keep learning each time, and think it will age like a fine wine.Charlie&co have made a beautiful piece of art that will exist forever. You often hear people bemoan that there is "no creativity in Hollywood" but consider Charlie Kauffman, who is making movies on par with the great film auteurs.
pboisei(June 29, 2009 at 3:41 am)
I agree.
kamikrazi123(June 29, 2009 at 1:38 am)
why so? If you have this great outlook on life while you're young, you don't want to have that notion of self-pity&failure&whatnot tainted into your thoughts..imagining that everyone in your life will get bored of you and leave you is a terrible thing to linger about with for the remainder of your life.
callytimecat(June 29, 2009 at 12:44 am)
So funny, melancholic, quirky and thought-provoking: this is one of my top 3 favourite films I've seen in the cinema the year It won't appeal to everyone but I thought it was a really amazing movie.
Matt4n(June 28, 2009 at 11:09 pm)
This is a BEAUTIFUL movie, if you find it depressing so be it, but I find it anything but, if anything I find it reassuring that Charlie Kauffman, exists, and thinks about some of the things that I do.
Matt4n(June 28, 2009 at 11:08 pm)
I think you're wrong, absolutely a teenager should have to think about this type of stuff.
johnkollor(June 28, 2009 at 5:25 pm)
Its showing next month on all Virgin atlantic flights so with a 12 and a half hour flight ahead of me i'll probibly watch it. Looks ok
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