Igby Goes Down
Igby Slocumb, a rebellious and sarcastic seventeen year-old boy, is at war with the oppressive world of his East Coast “old money” family. With a schizophrenic father, a self-absorbed, distant mother, and a shark-like young Republican big brother, Igby figures there must be a better life out there, and he sets out to find it. After happily flunking out of several Prep Schools, Igby escapes into the bohemian underworld of Manhattan
. His darkly comic trip—shared by a deviant cast of characters, including his terminally bored, part-time lover Sookie, his Godfather’s trophy mistress Rachel, and smack-dealing performance artists Russel—veers from bizarre to tragic in Igby’s ultimately noble attempt to keep himself from “going down.”
Title: Igby Goes Down
Release Date: 2002
Genres: Comedy, Drama
- Directors: Burr Steers
- Actors:
- Culkin, Kieran as Jason ”Igby” Slocumb, Jr.
- Danes, Claire as Sookie Sapperstein
- Goldblum, Jeff as D.H. Banes
- Harris, Jared as Russel
- Peet, Amanda as Rachel
- Phillippe, Ryan as Oliver ”Ollie” Slocumb
- Pullman, Bill as Jason Slocumb
- Sarandon, Susan as Mimi Slocumb
- Culkin, Rory as 10-Year-Old Igby
- Tambakis, Peter Anthony as 13-Year-Old Oliver
- Irwin, Bill as Lt. Ernest Smith, Pershing Academy
- Gati, Kathleen as Ida
- Forrester, Gannon as Little Cadet
- Weston, Celia as Bunny
- Jagger, Elizabeth as Lisa Fiedler