Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Kieran Culkin | ... | Igby | |
Claire Danes | ... | Sookie | |
Jeff Goldblum | ... | D.H. | |
Jared Harris | ... | Russel | |
Amanda Peet | ... | Rachel | |
Ryan Phillippe | ... | Oliver | |
Bill Pullman | ... | Jason | |
Susan Sarandon | ... | Mimi Slocumb | |
Rory Culkin | ... | 10-Year-Old Igby | |
Peter Anthony Tambakis | ... | 13-Year-Old Oliver (as Peter Tambakis) | |
Bill Irwin | ... | Lt. Smith | |
Kathleen Gati | ... | Ida | |
Gannon Forrester | ... | Little Cadet | |
Celia Weston | ... | Bunny | |
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Elizabeth Jagger | ... | Lisa Fiedler |
Seventeen year old Jason Slocumb, Jr. - Igby to most that know him - comes from east coast old money, the second son of self-absorbed and controlling Mimi Slocumb and medically-diagnosed schizophrenic Jason Slocum, Sr., the latter who has for several years been institutionalized in a Maryland psychiatric facility. While Igby's economics-studying Columbia-attending older brother Ollie Slocum has embraced and aspires to continue their wealthy life, Igby has rebelled against it, considering his brother a fascist (although he could soften that label to Republican). Because of Jason's situation, Mimi has largely left the role of male role model for Ollie and Igby to their godfather, D.H. Banes. Igby's rebellion has led to him being kicked out of one prep school after another, the latest, a military academy, from which Igby escapes before he can graduate. As such, Mimi and D.H. arrange for Igby to live in New York with Ollie for the summer while working for D.H. renovating some of his ... Written by Huggo
Igby caught me by surprise; I hadn't heard much of the film before seeing it and rented it on a hunch. What a beautiful, weird, sad, funny coming-of-age story and what a cast. The performances throughout are amazing. I absolutely adore this film. 8 stars out of 10
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