Year			2002
Genre			Comedy
Rating			14A
Parents			Offensive language, sexual content
Length			1:38
Director			Burr Steers
Writer			Burr Steers
Company			Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Starring			Kieran Culkin Susan Sarandon Jeff Goldblum Claire Danes Ryan Phillippe Bill Pullman Show more... Kieran Culkin Susan Sarandon Jeff Goldblum Claire Danes Ryan Phillippe Bill Pullman Amanda Peet Jared Harris Rory Culkin Kathleen Gati Cassidy Ladden Dean Nolen David Arrow Erin Fritch Gannon Forrester Amber Gross

Igby Slocumb (Kieran Culkin), a rebellious and sarcastic seventeen-year-old boy, is at war with the stifling world of "old money" privilege he was born in to. With a schizophrenic father (Bill Pullman), a self-absorbed, distant mother (Susan Sarandon), and a shark-like young republican big brother (Ryan Phillippe), Igby figures there must be a better life out there - and sets about finding it. Happily flunking out of yet another prep school, Igby is sent off to a military academy in the dreaded Midwest. With the aid of his mother's pilfered credit card, he goes on the lam. His darkly comedic voyage eventually lands him in New York, where he hides out at his godfather's (Jeff Goldblum) weekend pied-a-terre. In his quest to free himself from the oppressive dysfunction of his family, Igby's struggles veer from the comic to the tragic in an ultimately noble attempt to keep himself from "going down."