
When I was working through my teenage angst, I hid behind sarcasm. I think it was a way to deal with confusion as to what I wanted to do and where I was going in life. I finally figured it out on the precipice of expulsion from school and the panic in realizing I’d have to get a job. So I can identify somewhat with Igby Slocomb (Kieran Culkin) whose mum Mimi (Susan Sarandon) wants to run his life. He is headed to the dreaded military academy when he detours to the New York City loft of the mistress of his godfather, D.H. (Jeff Goldblum). Rachel (Amanda Peet) has some problems of her own (like heroin) but he meets and is smitten by Sookie Sapperstein (Claire Danes). She seems to have the whole world figured out, but it turns out she is just as confused about things. His brother Oliver (Ryan Phillippe) shows up and tells Igby that Mimi is suffering from cancer. He know it is only a matter of time before he’s going to have to grow up. Now my life wasn’t quite this dramatic but I did decide what and where I was going.
- Director: Burr Steers
- Writer: Burr Steers
- Cast:
- Kieran Culkin - Jason ‘Igby’ Slocumb, Jr.
- Claire Danes - Sookie Sapperstein
- Jeff Goldblum - D.H. Banes
- Jared Harris - Russel
- Amanda Peet - Rachel
- Ryan Phillippe - Oliver ‘Ollie’ Slocumb
- Bill Pullman - Jason Slocumb
- Susan Sarandon - Mimi Slocumb
- Rory Culkin - 10-Year-Old Igby
- Peter Tambakis - 13-Year-Old Oliver
- Bill Irwin - Lt. Ernest Smith, Pershing Academy
- Kathleen Gati - Ida
- Gannon Forrester - Little Cadet
- Celia Weston - Bunny
- Elizabeth Jagger - Lisa Fiedler
- Nick Wyman - Suit
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