from MGM
Directed by
Burr Steers
Starring
Kieran
Culkin (Igby Slocumb)
Claire
Danes (Sookie Sapperstein)
Jeff
Goldblum (D.H.)
Amanda
Peet (Rachel)
Ryan
Phillippe (Oliver Slocumb)
Bill
Pullman (Jason Slocumb)
Susan
Sarandon (Mimi Slocumb)
Jared Harris
Rory Culkin (Young Igby)
Gannon Forrester (Little Cadet Grimes)
Erin Fritch (Mindy)
Kathleen Gati (Ida)
Written by
Burr Steers
Rated: 
(for language, sexuality and drug content) |
Igby Slocumb (Kieran Culkin), a rebellious and sarcastic seventeen-year-old
boy, is at war with the stifling world of "old money"
privilege he was born in to. With a schizophrenic father (Bill
Pullman), a self-absorbed, distant mother (Susan Sarandon), and
a shark-like young republican big brother (Ryan Phillippe), Igby
figures there must be a better life out there - and sets about
finding it.
Happily flunking out of yet another prep school, Igby is sent
off to a military academy in the dreaded Midwest. With the aid
of his mother's pilfered credit card, he goes on the lam. His
darkly comedic voyage eventually lands him in New York, where
he hides out at his godfather's (Jeff Goldblum) weekend pied-a-terre.
There he encounters a deviant cast of characters, including his
godfather's trophy choreographer girlfriend (Amanda Peet) and
the terminally bored Sookie Sapperstein (Claire Danes). In his
quest to free himself from the oppressive dysfunction of his
family, Igby's struggles veer from the comic to the tragic in
an ultimately noble attempt to keep himself from "going
down."
from the Official
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