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	Reference for Igby Goes Down - Search.com
		Igby Goes Down is a 2002 film that follows the life of Igby Slocumb.
		Igby Goes Down follows the life of Igby Slocumb (Kieran Culkin), the perfunctory son of a wealthy family who, after a series of less-than-satisfactory encounters with education and his own family, seeks solace in the SoHo section of New York City.
		The disillusionment of both Holden Caulfield and Igby are meant to explain that sophomoric angst is the acme of a young man's life, though they both see it through to the next day.
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	Encyclopedia: Igby Goes Down
		Igby Goes Down is a 2002 film that follows the life of Igby Slocumb.
		Igby Goes Down follows the adventures of Igby Slocumb (Kieran Culkin) the dissatisfied son of a wealthy family, who after a series of less-than-satisfactory encounters with education, seeks solace in New York.
		Igby Slocumb (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.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Igby-Goes-Down (1031 words)

	Igby Goes Down
		The title character, Igby (Kieran Culkin, The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, The Cider House Rules) is a disaffected sarcastic young high schooler, rebelling against what he views is the hypocrisy of anything and everything around him.
		Igby pays no attention at school, and is kicked out of one school after another.
		Igby lives in the shadow of his father (Bill Pullman, Lucky Numbers, Titan A.E.), who is now in an institution.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/igby_goes_down.html (509 words)

	Igby Goes Down (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Igby not only goes down in this teen-angst film that is very much removed from the traditional Hollywood teen movie, but he goes in many different directions.
		Igby’s emotional torment at losing a girlfriend toward the end of the film is perhaps a bit overdone; but that first lost love can be devastating.
		As Igby is trying to sever ties with his wealthy upbringing, Amanda Peet as Rachel plans to sleep her way into that same wealth.
	www.travellady.com /Issues/Issue69/igby.htm (363 words)

	Death Takes a Quaalude - Moonlight Mile is the worst film of the year; Igby Goes Down is the best. By David Edelstein (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Igby (the name is from his childish mispronunciation of a Digby bear) is the biggest jerk in movies right now—and also the most vulnerable.
		Igby has grown up with people who don't know how to express their love, and so this smart-mouth provokes them in lieu of asking for what he really needs.
		Igby writer/director Burr Steers is Gore Vidal's nephew.
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	Igby Goes Down Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		Igby is the put-upon youngster of the moment, Holden Caulfield-esque only in his aristocratic upbringing, a tightly wound tennis ball (tennis, dahling, tennis) of crumbling illusions, obnoxious sad-kid incredulity, quick retorts, and an overwhelmingly irritating self-importance.
		Igby finds out that the world outside his sheltered upbringing is just as corrupt, evil, and uncaring as that within; that fear and denial are two twin glimmers in the world's eyes, and that he, despite his consistent disregard and world-weariness (at 16, mind you) can't escape its glance.
		Igby does such a convincing job of disguising his feelings that when he actually does feel something, like his need for Sookie, it's lost in a cloud of wit and affected boredom.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?mid=135282 (1733 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Igby Goes Down [2003]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Igby [Kieran Culkin] is avoiding school essentially in an attempt to find himself and escape the dysfunction of his family, although he's making it up as he goes along without any real plans.
		Igby develops a strange relationship with his godfather's mistress Rachel [Amanda Peet] and then finds a more stable one through a few chance encounters with Sookie Sapperstein [Claire Danes] until she is seduced away by his brother.
		Igby Goes Down is a shining example of what can be achieved with a great script and excellent performances from all involved, and a personal triumph for Burr Steers (first time writer / director) as well as Kieran Culkin, which has allowed him to leap from former child star into brilliant ‘one-to-watch’ adult actor.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000AISL2 (1941 words)

	The Film Pie Reviews - Igby Goes Down
		Igby’s older brother Oliver (Phillippe) graduated with honours from high school and is now the pride of the family with a prestigious college position.
		Igby Goes Down can be described as a hilarious parody of the self-absorbed or a troubling look at society in general.
		Igby may go down, but here’s a film that should be going straight to the top of any must-see list.
	www.thefilmpie.com /Reviews2003/zz-igbygoesdown.html (631 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Igby Goes Down at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Igby, we discover, is the son of the shrill and abusive Mimi and the crazy Jason (Bill Pullman in his best performance this side of The Zero Effect).
		Igby's father, we quickly discover, went crazy because he played the game by the rules of the ruling class and when that didn't make him happy, he went bonkers yearning for the simplicity of a sunny day.
		Igby is the only vaguely complex character (Caulfield-esque as he may be) and his universe is surrounded by parodies of the rich and the artistic.
	www.epinions.com /content_76156604036 (1928 words)

	Laramie Movie Scope: Igby Goes Down
		Igby (played by Kieran Culkin of "The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys") is from a wealthy family.
		Igby enters into a doomed relationship with his godfather's self-destructive mistress, Rachel (Amanda Peet of "Changing Lanes") and runs around with another rudderless friend, Sookie (Claire Danes of "Romeo and Juliet").
		Igby has his share of pain and sorrow during his "Catcher in the Rye" scene, but that seems to be fleeting.
	www.lariat.org /AtTheMovies/old/igbygoes.html (630 words)

	Modamag.com \| Igby Goes Down (Movie Review)
		"Igby Goes Down" is the debut film from actor Burr Steers ("The Last Days of Disco"), and if this is any indication of what Steers can bring to the cinematic table, I hope it’s his last.
		And Igby’s scenes of rage are all wrong, bursting out of the actor in a weird, mechanical way (Bill Pullman suffers from this as well).
		Coming off a three year hiatus, Danes is the only bright spot in "Igby Goes Down," infusing her character with a bright light that the rest of the cast, stuck doing impressions of rich friends they know, can't find.
	www.modamag.com /igby.htm (727 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Igby Goes Down -- Burr Steers - DVD - Wide Screen
		Igby Slocomb (Kieran Culkin) and his older brother, Oliver (Ryan Phillippe), are are in the process of killing their mother, Mimi (Susan Sarandon).
		Igby, however, has no intention of wasting his time, as he sees it, in a rehab clinic and he escapes to Manhattan and the loft his wealthy, bohemian godfather, D.H. Baines (Jeff Goldblum), keeps for his non-painting mistress, Rachel (Amanda Peet).
		IGBY GOES DOWN isn't the masterpiece that HAROLD AND MAUDE is, but it is smart, edgy and highly entertaining and it never slips into the sentimental or the overly melodramatic.
	video.barnesandnoble.com /search/product.asp?ean=27616882288 (1327 words)

	The Japan Times Online (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Igby's mother, Mimi (a splendid Susan Sarandon), is with him there and dominates this space with her imposing persona.
		She's just been told that Igby has been expelled due to bad conduct and the subsequent fury she unleashes on her son indicates that this is a recurring pattern with him.
		It's clear that they had been archenemies from Igby's childhood ("His creation was an act of animosity so I don't see why his life shouldn't be one" is how she describes it) and one of the redeeming qualities of "Igby Goes Down" is the terrific honesty of this atypical mother-son relationship.
	www.japantimes.com /cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?ff20040901a2.htm (931 words)

	Igby Goes Down (2002)
		Continuity: Despite talk throughout the film of a passage of time, the coming of summer, the advent of fall, and the approach of Christmas, the entire film was clearly shot over a very short time in the fall.
		In the scene outside the campus where DH tells Igby his mother is having a mastectomy, for example, DH talks about staying with him "this summer," yet there are dead leaves on the ground and bare trees.
		Igby is the anti Ferris Beuhler - a smart wanna be who's wise mouth and attitude usually piss off those around him - his mother, his brother, his godfather.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0280760 (652 words)

	Salon.com Arts & Entertainment \| "Igby Goes Down"
		Igby's using the lingo of pissed-off and disappointed youth, and it's touching because this is one of the rare times he allows himself to be young: Mostly, he's like a confused little old man trapped in a boyish teenager's body.
		Igby likes them, but he's too smart to fall for their seedy pseudoglamour: Military school may have been a harsh and hollow world, but there, if nothing else, people know enough to walk around in pants.
		"Igby Goes Down" is hardly a failure: You could argue that it's better for a filmmaker to err on the side of crispness than to give in to sappy emotion, and you'd be right.
	salon.com /ent/movies/review/2002/09/18/igby/index.html (1245 words)

	IGBY GOES DOWN
		When he goes AWOL and hightails it to New York City to hide out in one of D.H.'s renovated lofts, Down finally begins to take some shape after seeming like a train wreck for its initial 30 minutes.
		In other words, Down is full of extremely unlikable characters (including, to some extent, Igby himself) with no discernable means of income, but most of them get their just desserts.
		Down is probably a love-it-or-hate-it proposition, though it's likely to leave you pretty cold regardless of your overall level of cinematic enjoyment.
	www.sick-boy.com /igby.htm (532 words)

	Amazon.ca: Igby Goes Down (Widescreen): DVD (Site not responding. Last check: )
		"Igby Goes Down" works best as a film that is what it is: the story of Igby (Kieran Culkin), who has been kicked out of every private school his mother Mimi (Susan Sarandon) has enrolled him in and who goes on the lam to avoid the next one.
		Igby's father (Bill Pullman) has been in a mental hospital for the past six years, and his mother is a snooty matron dying of breast cancer who spends her time fiercely trying to get Igby into yet another school.
		Igby's life is truly messed up, and no one can stand to be in his company for long before they feel like hitting him.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00007JXWX (1379 words)

	Igby Goes Down
		His portrayal of Igby, a sarcastic brat whose coolness rests in his self-assurance, is one of many layers.
		He goes from boning his wealthy godfather’s mistress (Amanda Peet, whose tongue becomes a character in its own right) to cutting heroin for his sixth-grade art teacher (a funny cameo by Cynthia Nixon).
		Igby is uncompromising to the point where, after his godfather physically beats him, his brother comments, “I think if Gandhi had had to hang out with you for any prolonged period of time he’d have ended up kicking the shit out of you”.
	www.movienavigator.org /igbygoesdown.htm (618 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "Igby Goes Down" review (2002) Burr Steers, Kieran Culkin, Susan Sarandon
		Sharp, philosophical and zestfully tangy, "Igby Goes Down" is a vaguely familiar but inventively tweaked and poignantly melancholy coming-of-age story that first-time writer-director Burr Steers executes flawlessly and with discerning enthusiasm.
		She is sexy, sullen and equally caustic in the pivotal role of Sookie Sapperstein (I love that name!), a college bohemian who Igby thinks could be his cynical salvation -- until she hops into bed with his perniciously predatory brother.
		But as wistful and pensive as "Igby" can get, Steers never loses sight of his incisive, scintillating comedy instincts or Igby's determination to climb out of the well-bred quagmire into which he was born.
	www.splicedonline.com /02reviews/igbygoesdown.html (622 words)

	Review: Igby Goes Down (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Meanwhile, Igby is hiding out from his detested mother and trying to figure out what to do with his existence.
		Igby Goes Down is one of those films where the whole is more than a sum of the pieces.
		Igby Goes Down ends pretty much where it begins, with the majority of the story being told in flashback.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/i/igby.html (768 words)

	Igby Goes Down (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Igby's brother, Oliver (Ryan Pillippe) is a handsome, ambitious preppy who invests new meanings in the words "selfish" and "self-serving." Mimi's ice-water-for-blood flows in Oliver's veins as well.
		Igby Goes Down deftly creates individualized characters who are not just notches in a checklist of satirical targets.
		Before Igby rides off into the sunset, it is made clear (without sentimentality) that, for all their mistreatment of him, Igby retains a deep and loving connection to his family.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies5/Igby.htm (562 words)

	Igby Goes Down
		Igby (Culkin) is a ne'er-do-well prep school brat, son of institutionalized industrialist Jason (Bill Pullman) and pill-popping control freak Mimi (Susan Sarandon).
		Igby Goes Down splits its time almost evenly between the cartoonish intensity of Sarandon, Goldblum, and Harris and the dead-eyed glaze of Phillippe, Danes, Peet, and Pullman (whose character's nervous breakdown explains his catatonia to some degree).
		Igby Goes Down never recovers from its laggard opening and the unfortunate decision to cast below-par actors in pivotal roles--the aggregate effect of all of these walking dead being a predictable one: horror alternating with dread.
	filmfreakcentral.net /screenreviews/igbygoesdown.htm (531 words)

	The Popkorn Junkie :: Igby Goes Down
		In an attempt to forget his life, and escape it, Igby travels to Manhattan to stay with his godfather D.H. (Jeff Goldblum) and his lover Rachel (Amanda Peet).
		There, while maintaining a relationship with girlfriend Sookie (Claire Danes), Igby learns why he is so unhappy and tries to understand why it is happening to him.
		By the end of the film, we see him as someone completely different, a young adult who has lived quite a bit of life since the beginning of the film, who knows what is going on in the world and is willing to accept it.
	popkornjunkie.com /reviews/igbygoesdown.html (799 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Igby Goes Down (xhtml) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		fits it perfectly, in "Igby Goes Down," an inspired example of the story in which the adolescent hero discovers that the world sucks, people are phonies, and sex is a consolation.
		Igby is the child of a malevolently malfunctioning family.
		Everyone except Igby is fairly casual about it, which is kind of sad, and among the things Igby has been deprived of in life, one is an early romance with a sincere girl of about the same age who takes him seriously.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID%3D/20020920/REVIEWS/209200305/1023 (909 words)

	NYPOST.COM Movie Reviews: CAUGHT UP IN 'IGBY' By JONATHAN FOREMAN (Site not responding. Last check: )
		IT'S just as well that Burr Steers' gleefully unsentimental dark comedy "Igby Goes Down" makes such deft use of his fine, all-star cast - with Susan Sarandon tossing verbal darts with the precision of an American Maggie Smith, Jeff Goldblum back in form and Claire Danes brightening the screen in her first post-teen role.
		Igby (Kieran Culkin) is the second son of the wealthy WASP Slocumb family.
		But the real triumphs in "Igby" come from Philippe, who makes Oliver far more interesting than the character's lines would suggest, and Sarandon, who couldn't be better as a cruel but weirdly likable WASP matron.
	www.nypost.com /movies/47594.htm (508 words)

	Igby Goes Down - Review
		Igby Goes Down is a good film, but its real value will probably be as a tool for understanding how and why certain film critics like and dislike films.
		Maybe Igby isn't as clever as he's supposed to be.
		Igby is like a less subtle version of Harold in Harold and Maude.
	www.coldbacon.com /movies/igbygoesdown.html (1496 words)

	Igby Goes Down Screenplay
		Igby Goes Down puts much of the strong points of Catcher in the Rrye into a hard hitting screenplay...
		Igby Goes Down" is one of the most intelligent and inventive films in recent years and certainly a...
		In the vein of The Catcher in the Rye, Igby Goes Down is scathingly witty and sharply observant...
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