Synecdoche, New York

Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut is about what you'd expect. It's an odd tale of a director who writes and directs a play about his life, where the characters and actors interact with real people and the gets more and more absorbed in his play world. Anyone who has seen the Bjork video for "Bachelorette" will wonder why it wasn't credited with inspiring this movie. So much for the reputed originality of Mr. Kaufman's work.