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Igby Goes Down

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  • 1h 38m
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6.9/10
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Claire Danes, Jeff Goldblum, Ryan Phillippe, Susan Sarandon, Bill Pullman, Kieran Culkin, and Amanda Peet in Igby Goes Down (2002)
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ComedyDrama
A young man's peculiar upbringing renders him unable to competently cope with the struggle of growing up.A young man's peculiar upbringing renders him unable to competently cope with the struggle of growing up.A young man's peculiar upbringing renders him unable to competently cope with the struggle of growing up.
IMDb RATING
6.9/10
34K
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    • Burr Steers
    • Burr Steers
  • Stars
    • Kieran Culkin
    • Susan Sarandon
    • Jeff Goldblum
    • Burr Steers
    • Burr Steers
  • Stars
    • Kieran Culkin
    • Susan Sarandon
    • Jeff Goldblum
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 238User reviews
    • 130Critic reviews
    • 72Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
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    Claire Danes, Kieran Culkin, and Burr Steers in Igby Goes Down (2002)
    Susan Sarandon in Igby Goes Down (2002)
    Kieran Culkin and Amanda Peet in Igby Goes Down (2002)
    Bill Pullman, Rory Culkin, and Peter Anthony Tambakis in Igby Goes Down (2002)
    Claire Danes and Ryan Phillippe in Igby Goes Down (2002)
    Jeff Goldblum and Kieran Culkin in Igby Goes Down (2002)
    Jeff Goldblum, Ryan Phillippe, Kieran Culkin, Amanda Peet, and Celia Weston in Igby Goes Down (2002)
    Bill Pullman, Rory Culkin, and Peter Anthony Tambakis in Igby Goes Down (2002)
    Claire Danes, Ryan Phillippe, Kieran Culkin, and Amanda Peet in Igby Goes Down (2002)
    Burr Steers and Marco Weber in Igby Goes Down (2002)
    Jeff Goldblum, Ryan Phillippe, and Celia Weston in Igby Goes Down (2002)
    Claire Danes and Kieran Culkin in Igby Goes Down (2002)

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    Kieran Culkin
    Kieran Culkin
    • Igby
    Susan Sarandon
    Susan Sarandon
    • Mimi
    Jeff Goldblum
    Jeff Goldblum
    • D.H.
    Claire Danes
    Claire Danes
    • Sookie
    Jared Harris
    Jared Harris
    • Russel
    Amanda Peet
    Amanda Peet
    • Rachel
    Ryan Phillippe
    Ryan Phillippe
    • Oliver
    Bill Pullman
    Bill Pullman
    • Jason
    Rory Culkin
    Rory Culkin
    • 10-year-old Igby
    Peter Anthony Tambakis
    Peter Anthony Tambakis
    • 13-year-old Oliver
    • (as Peter Tambakis)
    Bill Irwin
    Bill Irwin
    • Lt. Smith
    Kathleen Gati
    Kathleen Gati
    • Ida
    Gannon Forrester
    Gannon Forrester
    • Little Cadet
    Celia Weston
    Celia Weston
    • Bunny
    Elizabeth Jagger
    • Lisa Fiedler
    Nick Wyman
    • Suit
    Amber Gross
    • Girl
    Cassidy Ladden
    • Hockey Player
      • Burr Steers
      • Burr Steers
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      The character of Rachel is based on Edie Sedgwick.
    • Goofs
      When Sookie enters the loft for the first time, she doesn't close the door all the way, and the door dramatically swings open, and then is shut by and unseen crewperson.
    • Quotes

      Igby: Oliver is majoring in neo-fascism at Colombia.

      Oliver: Economics.

      Igby: Semantics.

    • Connections
      Featured in The 60th Annual Golden Globe Awards (2003)
    • Soundtracks
      Ibuki Reconstruction
      (1999)

      Written by Ryutaro Kaneko (as R. Kaneko), Tetsuro Naito (as T. Naito) and Motofumi Yamaguchi (as M. Yamaguchi)

      Performed by Kodo

      Beats and scratches by DJ Krush

      Courtesy of Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc.

      By Arrangement with Sony Music Licensing

    User reviews238

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    Very interesting debut by Burr Steers with uniformly great performances
    This film doesn't make us feel for any of its characters, but it's so full of memorable vignettes, it's hard to forget about this. It's dark and depressing but at the same time consistent in tone and so full of wonderful performances it just sticks in your memory.

    Igby's life consists of one disappointment after another. We soon meet his ruinantly self-absorbed mother (Susan Sarandon), who treats her boys like full-grown adults. 'I call her Mimi because 'Heinous One' would be a bit cumbersome,' Igby remarks. And there's his schizophrenic dad (Bill Pullman) who has long since been confined to a 'home for the befuddled'. Igby's and his preppy brother Oliver (Ryan Phillippe) have nothing but contempt for their mother. When Igby has just been kicked out - again - of his latest prep school, he is sent to a military academy by his mother, but he swipes her credit card and absconds to an airport hotel in the Midwest. Soon he is dishonorably discharged and sucks his way in by his mother's new wealthy friend D. H. Baines, wonderfully played by Jeff Goldblum, who almost seems to play himself.

    Two women play a crucial role in his life, both of them he meets at a cocktail party at "D.H."'s lavish Hamptons home. There's Rachel, a memorable role by Amanda Peet, truly astonishing. I knew her face, but I cannot recall other roles of her. And there is Sookie Sapperstein (Claire Danes), a waitress at the party and couple of years older college student, with whom Igby falls in love. But his brother is becoming a romantic rival or Sookie and when Igby crashes in D.H's fancy Manhattan apartment, in which Rachel is taking residence, he becomes entangled in an ever more downward spiral.

    First-time director Burr Steers, who also scripted, filled this one with some very smart, observative and acidic dialog, and Kiera Culkin shows he can carry a film with a very good performance. And where has he been the last four years? Since this one he hasn't appeared in any other films. On the IMDb message boards there are some hilarious speculations about how he is supposedly "on weed". I don't know about that. He's probably going through some rough times, but I hope he'll be back soon. It would be a shame to lose an actor like him.

    Camera Obscura --- 8/10
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    • Release date
      • October 4, 2002 (United States)
      • United States
      • Germany
      • English
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    • Filming locations
      • Central Park, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
    • Production companies
      • United Artists
      • Atlantic Streamline
      • Crossroads Films
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    • 1 hour 38 minutes
      • Color
      • Dolby Digital

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