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Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Synecdoche, New York"

As Caden in Charlie Kaufman’s “Synecdoche, New York,” Hoffman plays a mentally fading theater director who rapidly ages from his thirties to his eighties. With each passing year, Caden loses track of time—his young daughter suddenly emerges as a teenager and then a young woman, and his grand theater experiment drags on and on. By the time a balding, lonely, staggering Caden collapses onto a couch littering the set, he has the look of a man about to breathe his last breath.