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Added: Jun 23, 2009
Film: Igby Goes Down. Starring: Kieran Culkin, Claire Danes, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Susan Sarandon, Amanda Peet, Ryan Phillipe. Directed by: Burr Steers. Story & Screenplay written by: Burr Steers. Distributed by: © United Artists & Atlantic Streamline. Theatrical Release Date: September 13, 2002 (USA) Niceties by: http://www.youtube.com/IAmOnlyLove Synopsis! "Igby Goes Down" is a 2002 comedy-drama film that follows the life of Igby Slocumb, a rebellious and sardonic New York City teenager who attempts to break free of his familial ties and wealthy, overbearing mother. The film was written and directed by Burr Steers, and stars Kieran Culkin, Claire Danes, Jeff Goldblum, Susan Sarandon, Amanda Peet, Ryan Phillipe, Bill Pullman, and Jared Harris. It was given a limited theater release through United Artists on September 13, 2002 in the United States. Plot! Kieran Culkin plays Jason "Igby" Slocumb, a misanthropic 17-year-old boy, rebelling against the oppressive world of his strict East Coast "old money" family. His schizoprenic father Jason (Bill Pullman) has been committed to an institution; Igby fears he will eventually suffer a mental breakdown like his father. His mother Mimi (Susan Sarandon) is self-absorbed and distant. Igby mockingly describes his ambitious older brother Ollie (Ryan Phillippe) as a fascist or alternatively a Young Republican, and that he studies Neo-Fascism (Economics) at Columbia University. Igby figures there must be a better life out there, and he sets out to find it, rebelling against his family at every opportunity. After happily flunking out of several prep schools, he ends up in a brutal military academy where he gets beaten by his fellow students. After escaping and spending time in a Chicago hotel courtesy of his mother's credit card Igby is sent to New York for the summer to his godfather D.H. Banes (Jeff Goldblum). While working construction for D.H. he first encounters Rachel (Amanda Peet) a "dancer who doesn't dance", his godfather's heroin-addicted trophy mistress. Rather than return to school, he escapes into the bohemian underworld of Manhattan, hiding out with Rachel and her friend Russel (Jared Harris) "an artist who doesn't paint". He hooks up with terminally bored, part-time lover Sookie (Claire Danes), only for her to later leave him for Ollie. Despite seeming cold and distant, Mimi is not unaffected by her rebellious son. She describes Igby's conception as an act of malice and it shouldn't be a surprise that his life follows the same course. His name is explained as a family in-joke. As a child he would blame his Digby toy bear for things he had done, mispronouncing it as "Igby". In order to get him to take responsibility for his actions his family would call him Igby whenever he lied. Igby is informed by D.H. his mother Mimi is dying from cancer and so he returns to see her. She has arranged to commit suicide with help from Ollie, who sedates her and suffocates her with a plastic bag. Before she dies, Mimi makes a final revelation, casually inquiring of Igby, "I take it you know that D.H. is your father?" The film ends with Igby leaving for California, in an attempt to finally make a clean break by getting 3000 miles away from his family.
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