Igby Goes Down (2002)

Igby Slocumb (Kieran Culkin), a rebellious and sarcastic seventeen-year-old boy, is at war with the stifling world of &#65533old money&#65533 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 &#65533 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&#65533s 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&#65533s (Jeff Goldblum) weekend pied-a-terre. There he encounters a deviant cast of characters, including his godfather&#65533s trophy choreographer girlfriend (Amanda Peet) and the terminally bored Sookie Sapperstein (Claire Danes). In his quest to free himself from the oppressive dysfunction of his family, Igby&#65533s struggles veer from the comic to the tragic in an ultimately noble attempt to keep himself from &#65533going down.&#65533 More »

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