Igby Goes Down DVD

Advantages: A more sympathetic portrayal than Holden Cauldfield that will have you quietly laughing
Disadvantages: It won't have you roaring with laughter and could do with a better editor

...in the Rye'. Igby (Kieran Culkin) is the product of two wealthy and wildly different parents who move in the upper echelons of New York society. Although Jason Slocumb (Bill Pullman) has been institutionalised for years he appears to have provided more warmth to Igby's lonely life than his cold and intensely controlled Mother (Susan Sarandon), Mimi - who at times appears to be on the brink of madness herself. In fact, all of the influences in Igby's ...
...comes as no surprise that Igby constantly wants to break out, and like Holden Caulfield, has never found the reason to use the advantages he has been given to excel academically. Kicked out of nearly every private school his mother could buy him into Igby is finally faced with the realities of the long threatened military school; where he attempts to break free by relying on DH's drug addicted trophy girlfriend (Amanda Peet), and the warm and sympathetic, ... Read review

Advantages: some good performances
Disadvantages: one bad script

...weekend gratis. So, is Igby comparable to a Wes Anderson film? NO REAL PLOT? Igby is a bit of a ‘teenage tearaway’. We see snippets of his less than idyllic childhood in flashback, including seeing his father going through a nervous breakdown, and him generally not getting on very well with his mother. He steals his mother’s medication and credit cards, gets kicked out of every school, and finally runs away from military academy. The whole family, ...
...CARE ABOUT THEM ENOUGH? Igby is a character I expected to enjoy watching. However, eventually I realised he just didn’t have any redeeming features at all, and I just couldn’t have cared less what happened to him. His elder brother, Ollie, is totally different to him, and yet still unlike able – he’s smarmy, slimy, and it made my flesh creep when he kissed someone. As far as I was concerned, they were both as bad as each other. Their mother, Mimi, ... Read review

Advantages: Great story. Great cast. Great film.
Disadvantages: Can't think of any at all.

...only) and Pulp Fiction. Igby Goes Down is very well written, and the film on a whole has been compared to 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off'. It's black comedy and it's just my cup of tea. The film follows 'Igby', no that's not his real name, as he is kicked out of school, sent to Military school, then, running away and ending up in his Godfathers mistresses studio in New York where he finds a friend in Sookie Sapperstein, who, like everyone else in his ...
...uses people, eventually even Sookie. Igby is determined to leave them all and see some sunny days, no matter what it takes. Kieran is joined with an all star cast who do tremendous. Susan Sarandon plays his mother, Bill Pullman his dad, Jeff Goldblum his Godfather, DH, Ryan Phillippe his brother, and Claire Danes as Sookie. Also watch out for Jared Harris giving an excellent performance as gay artist Russel. That's my explanation of the story ... Read review

Advantages: Offbeat movie with black humour
Disadvantages: Difficult to care for some of the characters

...plays the central character, teenager Igby Slocumb (but Igby’s a nickname, his real name is Jason). He may not be as well known as Macauley Culkin, but he certainly credited himself well here. Younger brother, Rory (yet another Culkin, they’re everywhere!) plays the 10-year old Igby as well. Oliver, Igby’s brother, is played by Ryan Phillipe He’s so perfect, an all-American golden boy – very handsome and all that, ...
...self-obsessed, and in many ways Igby has been robbed of his childhood. Susan Sarandon is excellent, and I do wish she appeared more. She was nominated for a Golden Globe awards, for supporting actress, for her work in this movie.. Igby’s godfather is played by Jeff Goldblum – at times friendly, at times like a slimy, smarmy reptile. It’s a good performance. When he’s in Manhattan, Igby spends much of the time at his godfather’s ... Read review

Advantages: Originality, Cast, Storyline.
Disadvantages: Soundtrack.

...could never tire of. Igby (Kieran Culkin, yes the brother of Macaulay) is a 17 year old at war with his family. The offspring of a schizophrenic father (Bill Pullman) and a pill-popping neurotic mother (Susan Sarandon) he also obtains no solace from his neo-fascist ‘genius’ brother Oliver (Ryan Philippe). The film follows the teenager who, although sarcastic and full of answers, never fails to gain the sympathy of the audience. He’s led through ...
...appetite, DS introduces a naïve Igby to the world of peculiar characters in the form of drug addict Rachel, her gay ‘artist’ friend Russell and then incidentally a bored caterer, Sookie Sapperstein (Claire Danes). All played brilliantly. What follows is a beautiful biographical insight into Igby’s journey through life and his attempt at not ‘going down’ whilst doing justice to every character in the film. Although ‘Igby Goes Down’ was hardly publicised ... Read review