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MPAA Raing: R
Director: Burr Steers
Genres: Comedy of Manners, Coming-of-Age, Comedy Drama
Released Date: September 13, 2002 (USA
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Summary:
The cynical son of an upper-class New York family bedeviled by booze, pills and mental illness strikes out on his own in this caustic, darkly comic drama. Igby Slocomb (Kieran Culkin) and his older brother, Oliver (Ryan Phillippe), are are in the process of killing their mother, Mimi (Susan Sarandon). Flashbacks delineate Igby's troubled childhood: Speed-freak Mimi and her depre... Full Summary >>

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Cast:
Kieran Culkin - (Igby Slocumb)
Susan Sarandon - (Mimi Slocumb)
Jeff Goldblum - (D.H.)
Claire Danes - (Sookie Sapperstein)
Ryan Phillippe - (Oliver Slocumb)
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Review:
Although it followed Tadpole and The_Good_Girl in 2002's "Catcher in the Rye" revival, this urgently cynical picture is a far cry from Gary_Winick's sweet fable or Miguel_Arteta's tragicomic treatise on good intentions. Playing the rebel without a cause for neither melancholy warmth nor laughs, Kieran_Culkin invests his bratty charac... Continue >>

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