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PRODUCTION TEAM
Director :
Burr Steers
Script :
Burr Steers
Photography :
Wedigo von Schultzendorff
Editor :
William M. Anderson
Cast :
Kieran Culkin, Susan Sarandon, Jeff Goldblum, Claire Danes, Ryan Phillippe, Bill Pullman, Amanda Peet, Jared Harris, Rory Culkin, Kathleen Gati, Cassidy Laden, David Arrow, Gannon Forester, Erin Fritc
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IGBY GOES DOWN
Igby Slocumb, a rebellious and sarcastic seventeen-year-old boy, is at war with the stifling world of "old money" privilege into which he was born. 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 he 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 black-comic trip eventually takes him to New York, where he hides out at his pompous, cigar-puffing godfather's weekend pied-�-terre in SoHo. There he encounters a menagerie of deviant characters, including his godfather's trophy choreographer girlfriend Rachel, who is getting hard drugs from would-be conceptual artist Russel, and Sookie Sapperstein, who's so terminally bored she can't bother to laugh at Igby's jokes, only to tell him that they were funny. In his quest to free himself from the oppressive dysfunction of his family, Igby's struggles veer from comic to tragic in an ultimately noble attempt to keep himself from "going down"."(The film) is a bildungsroman that doesn't advertise itself as such. The touches of black comedy here are bracingly nasty, but IGBY ultimately sells itself on genuine charm." -- Glenn Kenny (Premiere)"A family comedy so dark it turns THE ROYAL TENNEBAUMS into latter-day Bradys." -- Ken Eisner (Variety)
Burr Steers
Nephew of novelist Gore Vidal (who plays a cameo role in IGBY GOES DOWN), writer-director Burr Steers began his film career as an actor. He made his screen debut in INTRUDER (1988) and appeared in two of Quentin Tarantino's films, RESERVOIR DOGS (1992) and PULP FICTION (1994). He played a 1993 episode of the TV series Silk Stalkings, and he has had roles in NAKED IN NEW YORK (1994), FIX (1997) and THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO (1998). He has directed numerous plays in Los Angeles, notably a critically acclaimed production of Tennessee Williams' Vieux Carr�. He has directed numerous plays in Los Angeles. IGBY GOES DOWN marks his debut in film features.
August 30, 2002 • 09:00:00 • IMP�RIAL • CI.30.1 •
August 30, 2002 • 19:00:00 • MAISONNEUVE • TM.30.2 •
August 31, 2002 • 14:00:00 • IMP�RIAL • CI.31.3 •
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