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Overview

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Director:
Burr Steers
Writer (WGA):
Burr Steers (written by)
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Release Date:
1 May 2003 (Austria) more
Genre:
Comedy | Drama more
Tagline:
Insanity is relative
Plot:
A young man's peculiar upbringing renders him unable to competently cope with the struggle of growing up. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for 2 Golden Globes. Another 7 wins & 8 nominations more
User Comments:
Smart movie with good performances more

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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for language, sexuality and drug content.
Runtime:
98 min | Argentina:99 min (Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Company:
United Artists more

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Trivia:
Writer/director Burr Steers originally intended to make this a novel, not a movie. more
Goofs:
Continuity: Amount of whipped cream on Sookie's spoon in the diner. more
Quotes:
Mimi: I take it you know that D.H. is your father?
Igby: No.
Mimi: Then I'm really glad I told you.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in American Fame Pt. 1: Drowning River Phoenix (2004) more
Soundtrack:
Esta Noche more

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22 out of 27 people found the following comment useful:-
Smart movie with good performances, 16 June 2003
Author: Danny_G13 from Glasgow, Scotland

There's no question aspects of this are quite brutal. But the theme of the story dictates they would be so.

Igby Goes Down is about a kid in nowhere's land. He doesn't know where he's going in life and responds to this by being a rebel in everything. Add to this his parental instability with a schizophrenic father and a tyrannical mother and you can understand why he'd be a little mixed up.

In many ways it is a coming of age story, but in others it is too dark to be that. Indeed there is an ambivalence of themes with hope and despair featured in equal measure.

As Igby, Kieran Culkin excels. He's outstanding, the best thing in the movie - which given the quality of his peers, such as a sinister and agenda-ridden Jeff Goldblum, a monstrous and hierarchial Susan Sarandon, a confused and tortured Bill Pullman and a squeaky clean upstart in Ryan Phillippe, is no mean feat at all.

Performances are uniformly excellent, the story involving, and the themes well explored.

Well done all round.

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