Igby Goes Down
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| Igby Goes Down | |
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 Igby Goes Down DVD cover |
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| 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 |
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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.
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.
- Tagline: Insanity is relative.
- Kieran Culkin: Jason 'Igby' Slocumb, Jr.
- Claire Danes: Sookie Sapperstein
- Jeff Goldblum: D.H. Banes
- Jared Harris: Russel
- Amanda Peet: Rachel
- Ryan Phillippe: Oliver 'Ollie' Slocumb
- Bill Pullman: Jason Slocumb
- Susan Sarandon: Mimi Slocumb
- Rory Culkin: 10-year-old Igby
- Peter Anthony Tambakis: 13-year-old Oliver
- Bill Irwin:Lt. Ernest Smith, Pershing Academy
- Kathleen Gati: Ida
- Gannon Forrester: Little Cadet
- Celia Weston: Bunny
- Elizabeth Jagger: Lisa Fiedler
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