Igby Goes Down overview
Overall Rating
Total Ratings: 1
Synopsis:
The cynical son of an upper-class New York family bedeviled by booze, pills and mental illness strikes out on his own in this caustic, darkly comic drama. Igby Slocomb (Kieran Culkin) and his older brother, Oliver (Ryan Phillippe), are are in the process of killing their mother, Mimi (Susan Sarandon). Flashbacks delineate Igby's troubled childhood: Speed-freak Mimi and her depressed husband, Jason (Bill Pullman), snipe at each other endlessly until Jason attempts suicide before Igby's very eyes and takes up residence in a mental hospital.
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Movie Details:
- Director: Burr Steers
- Studio: Marco Weber, Lisa Tornell Production, Igby Prods., Crossroad Films, Atlantic Streamline, United Artists
- Year: 2002
- Run Time: 104 minutes
- Country: USA
- Language: English
- MPAA Rating: R (for language, sexuality and drug content)
- Category: Feature
- Genre/Type: Comedy Drama
- Filmed in: Color
