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  • Igby Goes Down
  • Opened September 13, 2002 | Runtime:1 hr. 44 min.
  • R
    language, sexuality and drug content
  • Information for parents: Common Sense Media says not for kids. Read More
  • 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 Read More
  • Cast: Kieran Culkin, Susan Sarandon, Jeff Goldblum, Claire Danes, Ryan Phillippe, Bill Pullman, Amanda Peet
  • Director: Burr Steers
  • Genres: Comedy Drama, Comedy of Manners, Coming-of-Age

Igby Goes Down Critic Reviews

Go Avg. Critic Score out of 100 Metascore ® based on all critic ratings.

Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 100
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    Gets weirder and meaner and darker and sadder as it progresses, which is...

  • 90
    Washington Post | Michael O'Sullivan

    Wickedly funny, jarringly transgressive, obdurately unpigeonholeable and...

  • 90
    Washington Post | Stephen Hunter

    A dead-on sense of how rich kids live and talk today, a sense of the melancholy...

  • 88
    Boston Globe | Ty Burr

    Across the board, the performances testify, often hilariously, to the pain...

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