Igby Goes Down movie

A young man's peculiar upbringing renders him unable to competently cope with the struggle of growing up.

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.PlotIgby Goes Down follows the life of Igby Slocumb (Kieran Culkin), the disaffected 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, Igbys 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, Igbys 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 an artist but is in fact little more than a heroin addict. Director Burr Steers uncle Gore Vidal has a brief cameo as a Catholic priest.Many reviewers have observed similarities between Igby Goes Down and J.D. Salingers novel The Catcher in the Rye, a novel which deals with themes of alienation, teenage angst and dysfunctional relationships; both follow a teenage boys 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 mans life, though they both see it through to the next day.

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Igby Goes Down Cast

• Amanda Peet
• Bill Irwin
• Bill Pullman
• Celia Weston
• Claire Danes
• Elizabeth Jagger
• Gannon Forrester
• Jared Harris
• Jeff Goldblum
• Kathleen Gati
• Peter Anthony Tambakis
• Rory Culkin
• Ryan Phillippe
• Susan Sarandon