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Actors: Kieran Culkin, Claire Danes, Jeff Goldblum, Susan Sarandon, Amanda Peet, Bill Pullman
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Igby Goes Down |
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Igby Slocumb is a rich 17-year-old who's got a lot of problems. His mother is a pill-popping control freak, his father is schizophrenic, his brother is a manipulative jerk, he's having an affair with his uncle's girlfriend, not to mention that his brother is trying to steal his "girlfriend" and he has a general problem with authority. He moves into the studio his uncle rents for his girlfriend secretly while his family and personal life take a turn for the worst.
--Colleen, Resident Scholar
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Igby Slocumb (Culkin), 17, has been thrown out of just about every elite private school on the East Coast. Aside from his hatred of school, Igby is trying to deal with his feelings about his father Jason, who's locked away in a mental asylum (Pullman, in a small but powerful role), and his hatred for his mother Mimi (Sarandon, marvelously irritating), a domineering bitch having an affair with his godfather D.H. (Goldblum, terrifically smarmy), who incidentally is married and has other chippies on the side, and for his older brother Oliver, a Conservative Republican A-student at Columbia (nicely underplayed by Ryan Phillippe). Igby manages to ditch the military academy his family dumps him in and becomes Holden Caulfield loose in Manhattan, where he hooks up with some Warhol-group style characters: Rachel, the gorgeous but razor thin heroin addict (Peet) who sleeps with D.H. in lieu of paying rent on her artist's loft, and her smack-dealing boyfriend Russel (Jared Harris). Luckily, a luscious and wry Bennington dropout named Sookie (Danes) takes a shine to our hero. Maybe these people are privileged snivelers and not terribly likable when you come down to it, but the dialogue is fast, witty, and crackling -- the film is like "The Royal Tenenbaums" with a more bitter edge to it -- and the acting extremely delightful.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- present (2000-2010)
Kids growing up/acting up?
Yes
Kids:
- committing crimes
- boozing
- fighting with parents
Family, struggling with
Yes
Struggle with:
- Mother
Parent(s) gone?
- Dada gone
Age group
- trouble in high school
Sexing?
- first sexual experience
- girl chasing
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- unemployed
- student
Age:
- a teen
Eccentric:
Yes
- eccentric
- obsessed
- emotionally unstable
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- blonde
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
- (man) long girliemon hair
Body type
- (man) average
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
- irritated
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
- hard edged
Sense of humor?
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn curly
Body type
- (woman) very skinny
Unclothed?
- chest
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Female
- general circumstances
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- not employed but independently wealthy
Eccentric:
Yes
- eccentric
- emotionally unstable
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Hair color
- blonde
Hair type
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavey
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
- dirty, grimy (like New York)
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
- school
- mental hospital
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
- explicit references to deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- all mixed up
- full of laughter
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- actual description of sex
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
- sex under blankets
Any profanity?
- A lot of foul language
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