Film

Igby Goes Down 2002

Directed by Burr Steers

  • Comedy, Drama
  • 97 min
  • R

Insanity is relative.

Igby Slocumb, a rebellious and sarcastic 17-year-old boy, is at war with the stifling world of old money privilege he was born into. With a schizophrenic father, a self-absorbed, distant mother, and a shark-like young Republican big brother, Igby figures there must be a better life out there -- and sets about finding it.

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