Oscar-winning screenwriter Charlie Kaufman made his directorial debut with this wildly original, one-of-a-kind comedy-drama about a director who uses a MacArthur Fellowship to create an insanely ambitious theater piece as large in scale and duration as life itself. Philip Seymour Hoffman gives a heartbreaking performance in what he described to an interviewer as “one of the best scripts I’ve ever read,” and the massive supporting cast includes a galaxy of Oscar winners and nominees including Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams, Catherine Keener, Emily Watson, Dianne Wiest, and Jennifer Jason Leigh.