Igby Goes Down

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(comedy, drama)

Igby Slocumb, a rebellious and sarcastic seventeen year-old boy, is at war with the oppressive world of his East Coast "old money" family. With a schizophrenic father, a self-absorbed, distant mother, and a shark-like young Republican big brother, Igby figures there must be a better life out there, and he sets out to find it. After happily flunking out of several Prep Schools, Igby escapes into the bohemian underworld of Manhattan. His darkly comic trip—shared by a deviant cast of characters, including his terminally bored, part-time lover Sookie, his Godfather's trophy mistress Rachel, and smack-dealing performance artists Russel—veers from bizarre to tragic in Igby's ultimately noble attempt to keep himself from "going down.".

actors:

Kieran Culkin as Jr. Jason 'Igby' Slocumb
Claire Danes as Sookie Sapperstein
Jeff Goldblum as D.H. Banes
Jared Harris as Russel
Amanda Peet as Rachel
Ryan Phillippe as Oliver 'Ollie' Slocumb
Bill Pullman as Jason Slocumb
Susan Sarandon as Mimi Slocumb
Rory Culkin as 10-Year-Old Igby
Peter Anthony Tambakis as 13-Year-Old Oliver
Bill Irwin as Pershing Academy Lt. Ernest Smith
Kathleen Gati as Ida
Gannon Forrester as Little Cadet
Celia Weston as Bunny
Elizabeth Jagger as Lisa Fiedler
directors:
Burr Steers
rating:7.10

See also: Comedy: All About the Benjamins

See also Comedy Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot