Igby Goes Down

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Igby Goes Down

Igby Goes Down DVD cover
Directed by Burr Steers
Produced by Lisa Tornell,
Marco Weber
Written by Burr Steers
Starring Kieran Culkin
Claire Danes
Jeff Goldblum
Ryan Phillippe
Amanda Peet
Bill Pullman
Susan Sarandon
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date(s) 23 May 2002
Running time 97 minutes
Language English
Budget ~ US$9,000,000
IMDb profile

Igby Goes Down is a 2002 film that follows the life of Igby Slocumb. It is written and directed by Burr Steers. It is rated R by MPAA for language, sexuality and drug content.

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Igby Goes Down follows the life of Igby Slocumb (Kieran Culkin), the perfunctory son of a wealthy family who, after a series of less-than-satisfactory encounters with education and his own family, seeks solace in the SoHo section of New York City.

This satirical black comedy features Susan Sarandon as Mimi Slocumb, Igby's cold and calculating mother; Ryan Phillippe as Oliver "Ollie" Slocumb, his "fascist" older brother and Columbia University student to whom the most important thing is outward affluence; Bill Pullman as Jason Slocumb, his schizophrenic father; Jeff Goldblum as D.H. Banes, Igby's extremely wealthy, morally corrupted godfather and benefactor who is later revealed to be his biological father; and Claire Danes as Sookie Sapperstein, a Bennington student who falls into a romance with Igby, only to later betray him with his brother Ollie. Amanda Peet is cast as Rachel, D.H.'s mistress, who claims to be a dancer but is in fact little more than a heroin addict.

Director Burr Steers' uncle Gore Vidal has a brief cameo as a Catholic priest - an in-joke considering that Vidal actually is well-known to be a gay atheist.

Many reviewers have observed similarities between Igby Goes Down and J.D. Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye, a novel which deals with themes of alienation, teenage angst and dysfunctional relationships; both follow a teenage boy's journey through New York City after his expulsion from a private school. The disillusionment of both Holden Caulfield and Igby are meant to explain that sophomoric angst is the acme of a young man's life, though they both see it through to the next day. The themes of continuity have slight variations, though both have become cornerstones of youthful tales of disillusionment and the desire for something more than what is placed in front of the lead characters.

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