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NUMBERS
Box Office: $4,624,014
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CONSENSUS
In the vein of The Catcher in the Rye, Igby Goes Down is scathingly witty and sharply observant.
CAST & CREW
Kieran Culkin, Claire Danes, Jeff Goldblum
Directed by Burr Steers
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SYNOPSIS
Meet IGBY SLOCUMB (Kieran Culkin), an iconoclastic young teenager and hapless product of a deplorable upbringing. more...
MPAA RATING
R, language, sexuality, and drug content
RUNTIME
1 hour, 37 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Sep 13, 2002
Video: Feb 4, 2003
RELEASE COMPANY
MGM/UA
GENRE
Dramas, Black Comedy, Coming Of Age, Mental Illness, New York City, Artists
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Igby Goes Down Site
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PARENTS EVALUATION
TRAILER & MEDIA
PHOTOS
NEWS ARTICLES
LINKS
SUBMIT/EDIT ARTICLE
SUBMIT USER REVIEW
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 "Writer/director Burr Steers knows how to show irony, the trouble with kids, and New Yorkers taking casual sex for granted."
-- Victoria Alexander, FILMSINREVIEW.COM
"So young, so smart, such talent, such a wise ***."
-- Boo Allen, DENTON RECORD CHRONICLE (TX)
"Steers turns in a snappy screenplay that curls at the edges; it's so clever you want to hate it. But he somehow pulls it off."
-- Jeffrey M. Anderson, SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
 "Culkin exudes none of the charm or charisma that might keep a more general audience even vaguely interested in his bratty character."
-- William Arnold, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
"One of those rare, exhilarating cinematic delights that gets even better in hindsight, as you mull over its every nuance in your mind."
-- Rob Blackwelder, SPLICEDWIRE
"Culkin, who's in virtually every scene, shines as a young man who uses sarcastic lies like a shield."
-- Ross Brooks, CITYSEARCH
"Steers has an unexpectedly adamant streak of warm-blooded empathy for all his disparate Manhattan denizens--especially the a**holes."
-- Sean Burns, PHILADELPHIA WEEKLY
"A battle between bug-eye theatre and dead-eye matinee."
-- Walter Chaw, FILM FREAK CENTRAL
"It tends to remind one of a really solid Woody Allen film, with its excellent use of New York locales and sharp writing"
-- Jason Clark, MATINEE MAGAZINE
"...the story simply putters along looking for astute observations and coming up blank."
-- David Cornelius, AMAZING COLOSSAL WEBSITE
"Well cast and well directed - a powerful drama with enough sardonic wit to keep it from being maudlin."
-- Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone, THEMOVIECHICKS.COM
"There are some movies that hit you from the first scene and you know it’s going to be a trip. Igby Goes Down is one of those movies."
-- Matt Easterbrook, MATT'S MOVIE REVIEWS
"Saved from being merely way-cool by a basic, credible compassion."
-- David Elliott, SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
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"Writer/director Burr Steers emphasizes the Q in Quirky, with mixed results."
-- Jeanne Aufmuth, PALO ALTO WEEKLY
"The film makes a fatal mistake: It asks us to care about a young man whose only apparent virtue is that he is not quite as unpleasant as some of the people in his life."
-- Jay Boyar, ORLANDO SENTINEL
"A lark, especially for all those who enjoy cheering for losers who maintain their own special weirdness as woes rain down upon them."
-- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, SPIRITUALITY AND HEALTH
"It's a movie so audacious as to take your breath away -- and one whose slashing style infuriates almost as often as it satisfies."
-- Robert W. Butler, KANSAS CITY STAR
"A mean-spirited film made by someone who surely read The Catcher in the Rye but clearly suffers from dyslexia"
-- Erik Childress, EFILMCRITIC.COM
"J.D. Salinger would've loved Igby."
-- Linda Cook, QUAD CITY TIMES (DAVENPORT, IA)
"Precocious smarter-than-thou wayward teen struggles to rebel against his oppressive, right-wing, propriety-obsessed family. Anyone else seen this before?"
-- Criminy Pete, CRIMINYPETE.COM
"A highly personal look at the effects of living a dysfunctionally privileged lifestyle, and by the end, we only wish we could have spent more time in its world."
-- Mark Dujsik, MARK REVIEWS MOVIES
"Culkin turns his character into what is basically an anti-Harry Potter -- right down to the Gryffindor scarf."
-- Curtis Edmonds, TXREVIEWS.COM
"A strikingly intelligent and rueful comedy of disaffected youth."
-- Marshall Fine, JOURNAL NEWS
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FRESH 77%
Avg. Rating: 7.2/10 |
"You get the impression that writer and director Burr Steers knows the territory ... but his sense of humor has yet to lose the smug self-satisfaction usually associated with the better private schools."
-- John Anderson, NEWSDAY
"I have always appreciated a smartly written motion picture, and, whatever flaws Igby Goes Down may possess, it is undeniably that."
-- James Berardinelli, JAMES BERARDINELLI'S REELVIEWS
"Blisteringly rude, scarily funny, sorrowfully sympathetic to the damage it surveys, the film has in Kieran Culkin a pitch-perfect Holden."
-- Ty Burr, BOSTON GLOBE
"Steers, in his feature film debut, has created a brilliant motion picture."
-- Paul Clinton, CNN
"Because the genre is well established, what makes the movie fresh is smart writing, skewed characters, and the title performance by Kieran Culkin."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"A kinetic drama that seems to wander aimlessly, beautifully until it crashes in an odd anti-climax befitting reality itself."
-- Robert K. Elder, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"The real triumphs in Igby come from Philippe, who makes Oliver far more interesting than the character's lines would suggest, and Sarandon, who couldn't be better as a cruel but weirdly likable WASP matron."
-- Jonathan Foreman, NEW YORK POST
"In its own floundering way, it gets to you. Just like Igby."
-- Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
"Holden Caulfield did it better."
-- Daphne Gordon, TORONTO STAR
"Good actors have a radar for juicy roles -- there's a plethora of characters in this picture, and not one of them is flat."
-- Rick Groen, GLOBE AND MAIL
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"Culkin has a way with quip-heavy dialogue that transforms what might otherwise been irritatingly, solipsistic posing into a great performance."
-- Ken Fox, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE
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* In fairness to critics whose last name begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet, certain pages are sorted in reverse order, z-a.
* Certain "Igby Goes Down" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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