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Depression | New York City
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Best First Feature | 2009 | Charlie
Best Production Design | 2009 | Mark
Best Original Screenplay | 2008 | Charlie
Best First Film | 2008 | Charlie
Best Production Design | 2008 | Mark
Best Screenplay | 2008 | Charlie
Best Ensemble Performance | 2008 | Philip Seymour
Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Feature Motion Picture | 2009 | Mark
Outstanding Matte Paintings in a Feature Motion Picture | 2009
Outstanding Created Environment in a Feature Motion Picture | 2009
Best Art Direction | 2009
Best Makeup and Hairstyling | 2009
Best Supporting Actress | 2009 | Samantha
Best Ensemble | 2009
Best Film | 2009
Best First Feature | 2009 | Charlie
Best Screenplay | 2009 | Charlie
Best Screenplay | 2009 | Charlie
Best First Feature | 2008
Best Film | 2008
Best Lead Performance | 2008
Best Supporting Performance | 2008
Best Feature | 2008
2008 | Charlie
Best Screenplay Original | 2008 | Charlie
Best Screenplay | 2008 | Charlie
Best Film | 2008
Trippiest Movie of the Year | 2008
Best Film | 2008
Budget 20,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 4,383,538 USD
The article that Caden reads in the doctor's waiting room, about his wife, is titled "It's Good To Be Adele". The intro paragraph reads, "Six months ago, Adele was an under-appreciated housewife in Eastern New York. Stuck in a dead-end marriage to a slovenly ugly-face loser, Adele Lack had big dreams for her and her then four-year-old daughter, Olivia. That's when her paintings got small."
At the start of the film, when Philip Seymour Hoffman is reading the news at the breakfast table, he says "Harold Pinter has died. Wait, no, he's won the Nobel prize". This is a reference to a famous news broadcast in which Sky News, in their rush to be first with breaking news, accidentally announced that Harold Pinter was dead. In fact, he had just been selected to recieve the Nobel prize for literature.
Philip Seymour Hoffman's character's last name, Cotard, is a reference to the Cotard delusion or Cotard's syndrome, also known as nihilistic or negation delusion. It's a rare neuropsychiatric disorder in which a person believes that they are dead, do not exist, are decaying, or have lost their blood or internal organs.
The name next to the buzzer of Adele's apartment reads "Capgras." Given the subject of the film - a man has actors play the real people in his life - this is almost certainly a reference to a psychological phenomenon called the Capgras delusion, where the sufferer believes that everyone in his or her life has been replaced with an identical-looking impostor.
In a radio interview, director Charlie Kaufman revealed that while scouting for a location, he and a few other crew members became stuck in an elevator late at night and were afraid it would plummet. They had to open the doors and jump out to escape. In the same interview, Kaufman discussed a recurring and claustrophic dream he has about being stuck in an elevator, and that the movie was purposefully structured like a dream (it has double the number of scenes than an average movie of its length).
"Pastor: Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true. There are a million little strings attached to every choice you make; you can destroy your life every time you choose. But maybe you won't know for twenty years. And you may never ever trace it to its source. And you only get one chance to play it out. Just try and figure out your own divorce. And they say there is no fate, but there is: it's what you create. And even though the world goes on for eons and eons, you are only here for a fraction of a fraction of a second. Most of your time is spent being dead or not yet born. But while alive, you wait in vain, wasting years, for a phone call or a letter or a look from someone or something to make it all right. And it never comes or it seems to but it doesn't really. And so you spend your time in vague regret or vaguer hope that something good will come along. Something to make you feel connected, something to make you feel whole, something to make you feel loved. And the truth is I feel so angry, and the truth is I feel so fucking sad, and the truth is I've felt so fucking hurt for so fucking long and for just as long I've been pretending I'm OK, just to get along, just for, I don't know why, maybe because no one wants to hear about my misery, because they have their own. Well, fuck everybody. Amen."
"Caden Cotard: I will be dying and so will you, and so will everyone here. That's what I want to explore. We're all hurtling towards death, yet here we are for the moment, alive. Each of us knowing we're going to die, each of us secretly believing we won't"
