Article: Twaddle or a masterpiece? SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK (15) Verdict: HHH Movies.

Byline: GRAHAM YOUNG

IF YOU want to get an all-star cast in your film and then make sure that hardly anybody sees it, why not come up with a name like Synecdoche, New York? High calibre actors Philip Seymour Hoffman, Emily Watson, Samantha Morton,

Jennifer Jason Leigh and Hope Davies star in this complex drama about a theatre producer battling his work, his health and his women. The net result is a 118-minute workout for the brain as you try to make sense both of the plot and its associated moments of pure weirdness.

Hoffman plays Caden Cotard, a theatre producer trying to recreate New York on stage.

But how will his ...

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