Igby Goes Down
- Original title
- Igby Goes Down
- Year
- 2002
- Running time
- 97 min.
- Country
- United States
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Kieran Culkin
- Claire Danes
- Susan Sarandon
- Jeff Goldblum
- Amanda Peet
- Ryan Phillippe
- Bill Pullman
- Jared Harris
- Bill Irwin
- David Arrow
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Comedy | Teen/coming-of-age. Independent Film (US)
- Synopsis
- Igby Slocumb (Culkin) is a rebellious, sarcastic seventeen-year-old at war with the stifling world of "old money" privilege into which he was born. With a schizophrenic father (Pullman), a self- absorbed, distant mother (Sarandon), and a shark-like young republican big brother (Phillippe), Igby figures there must be a better life out there -- and sets about finding it. After flunking out of yet another prep school, Igby is sent to a Midwest military academy. From there, with his mother's pilfered credit card, he goes on the lam. Ending up in New York, he hides out at his godfather's (Goldblum) weekend pied-a-terre and hangs out with a deviant cast of characters, including his godfather's trophy girlfriend (Peet) and the terminally bored Sookie Sapperstein (Danes). In his quest to free himself from the oppressive dysfunction of his family, Igby's struggles veer from comic to tragic in an ultimately noble attempt to keep himself from "going down."
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- Awards
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2002: Golden Globes: Nominated Best Actor (Culkin) and Supporting Actress (Sarandon)2002: Critics' Choice Awards: Best Young Actor (Kieran Culkin)2002: Independent Spirit Awards: Nominated for Best First Screenplay2002: Montréal World Film Festival: Official Selection2002: Satellite Awards: Actor in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical. 3 nominations2002: National Board of Review (NBR): Spotlight Award.
- Critics' reviews
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"What makes the movie fresh is smart writing, skewed characters, and the title performance by Kieran Culkin. (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of four)"
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"Wickedly funny, jarringly transgressive, obdurately unpigeonholeable and startlingly moving."
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