Synecdoche, New York

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• Dianne Wiest appears after an hour and twenty minutes into the film. Even then, she only gets ten minutes of screen time, despite prominent billing.
• The title to this movie is a play on Schenectady, New York, where the movie takes place. Schenectady, New York has the distinction of having the ZIP code 12345.
• Synecdoche is pronounced: si-nek-duh-kee (with a stress on "nek").
• Philip Seymour Hoffman's character's last name is a reference to the Cotard delusion or Cotard's syndrome, also known as nihilistic or negation delusion, which is a rare neuropsychiatric disorder in which a person holds a delusional belief that he or she is dead, does not exist, is putrefying or has lost his/her blood or internal organs.