Igby Goes Down

[Sara Noel]

Igby Goes Down (2002)

Synopsis: Meet Igby Slocumb. He's an angry, rebellious and sarcastic seventeen-year-old at war with the stifling world of "old money" privilege into which he was born. Igby's life and family seem one way on the surface, but he's figuring out things are completely different underneath. His father, Jason, is away "recuperating from life" after a sad slide into schizophrenia. His mother, Mimi, is fierce, distant and self-absorbed, with a long term dependency on "little peppies" to get her through the day. And his older brother, Oliver, is a shark-like young Republican on the fast track to materialism at Columbia University. All in all, Igby figures there's a better life out there, and therefore, sets out to find it. After flunking out of yet another prep school, Igby is sent to a Midwest military academy, and from there, with his mother's pilfered credit card, he goes on the lam. His darkly comedic voyage eventually leads to New York, where he hides out at his godfather's weekend pied-a-terre. Avoiding his family, Igby falls in with a host of questionable characters, including his godfather's trophy girlfriend, her flamboyant pal Russel, and the terminally bored Sookie Sapperstein. In his quest to free himself from the oppressive dysfunction of his family, and in his search to figure out what he wants for himself, Igby's struggles veer from comic to tragic in an ultimately noble attempt to keep himself from "going down." Source: http://www.hollywood.com/movies/detail/movie/419664

We rented this and it sure was different. It was comical and yet not funny. Saracastic but not witty. It was romantic but not in a sweet way. Touched on downright tragic. I can't say I loved the movie. I can say it was really different. It was hard for me to not stare at Igby and think of his real life brother. LOL
I don't want to say too much for anyone that wants to see it still.
Overall, I wasn't displeased with renting it. I hadn't seen previews, so had no idea what to expect.

[Daphne]

We went to Blockbuster last night and I saw it on the shelves but I had never heard of it. I was going to post on here to see if anyone had seen it You beat me too it!! Thanks for the review!!