“Charlie Kaufman's first film in seven years is a stopmotionanimation masterpiece”
David Fear, Rolling Stone
Michael Stone, husband, father and respected author of “How May I Help You Help Them?,” is
a man crippled by the mundanity of his life. On a business trip to Cincinnati, where he’s
scheduled to speak at a convention of customer service professionals, he checks into the
Fregoli Hotel. There, he is amazed to discover a possible escape from his desperation in the
form of an unassuming Akron baked goods sales rep, Lisa, who may or may not be the love of
his life. A beautifully tender and absurdly humorous dreamscape, from the brilliant minds of
Charlie Kaufman (Synecdoche, New York ) and Duke Johnson (“Community” episode, Abed’s
Uncontrollable Christmas), this stopmotion animation wonder features the vocal cast of Jennifer
Jason Leigh, Tom Noonan and David Thewlis and a stirring stringsbased score by Carter
Burwell. The darkly comedic and surreal stopmotion journey of a man’s long night of the soul,
Anomalisa confirms Charlie Kaufman’s place amongst the most important of American
filmmakers, and announces Duke Johnson as a major creative force.
Chicago International Film Festival
