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Genres:
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Comedy /
Drama
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Release:
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Director:
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Burr Steers
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Actors:
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Kieran Culkin,
Peter Anthony Tambakis,
Kathleen Gati,
Gannon Forrester,
Elizabeth Jagger,
Claire Danes,
Jeff Goldblum,
Jared Harris,
Amanda Peet,
Ryan Phillippe,
Bill Pullman,
Susan Sarandon,
Rory Culkin,
Bill Irwin,
Celia Weston
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Duration:
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98 min.
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Rating:
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(7/10)99
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Plot Summary:
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Seventeen-year-old Igby Slocumb (Kieran Culkin) comes from a well-to-do but dysfunctional extraction. His mother (Susan Sarandon) is a cough drop-popping lunatic, his brother (Ryan Phillipe) is a collegiate, greenbacks-obsessed snob, and his padre (Charge Pullman) is a hospitalized schizophrenic. After Igby is expelled from boarding school, his nourish sends him to a military academy where he is brutalized by the other kids. He escapes to the Hamptons, where he meets Sookie Sapperstein (Claire Danes), an enigmatic and artistic vegetarian on a break from Bennington College. Igby then goes to New York, where he holes up in the loft of the heroin-addicted live-in lover (Amanda Peet) of his reptilian godfather D.H. (Jeff Goldblum). He once again runs into Sookie, and the two begin an affair, which eventually falls apart as Igby realizes that he has never had anyone to trust, and he decides to judge and switch his moving spirit for the healthier.
... Burr Steers' impressive is clearly inspired by THE CATCHER IN THE RYE, though his veil takes more pains to graphically show the familial reasons in the service of its young hero's instability. At times a black comedy and sometimes something darker, IGBY creates a world where Harry's cordiality and kindness is inversely proportional to their abundance--and most of the characters have specie to spare. Culkin deftly carries an altogether stirring chuck filled with strong performances.
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interesting
this film is a wierd one it has to be said. i did sit there wondering what direction the movie was heading in for most of the time. there were comical moments in it, of a very dark side. susan sarandon's performance was brilliant as always. it was good to see claire danes in the picture also. i guess this would be high end culture in the style of jerry springer, an insight into the dysfunctional world of the east coast upper class society. whilst its direction seemed aimless, it could be said that this is a reflection on life itself.
An involving surprise
I settled down to watch Igby expecting little more than a light hearted peek into the privileged life of the American upper class, sort of Cruel Intentions with a smile. But what a wonderful, slowly evolving, surprise this film proved to be. First time director/screen writer Burr Steers delivers a truly involving story revolving around the titular Igby as a deeply troubled, fiercely independent teenager without direction. While we follow his descent form preppy school boy to preppy drug dealer, we are treated to a slowly developing picture of his dysfunctional family. With Susan Sarandon giving, for my money, one of her best ever performances as the mother from hell and the wildly variable Jeff Goldblum coming up trumps as an a-moral god father it is pretty clear why Igby is “going do...
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