Igby Goes Down (2002)Movies

Movies from Film Forum, 10/03/02Igby Goes Down is the Dysfunctional Family Movie of the Week, starring Kieran Culkin as a kid who is hardly "home alone." As he tries to cope with his maddening, wealthy, drug-warped family dynamics, he seeks solace in sexual meddling with two different women and plunges headlong into angst, despair, and rebellion.Christian media critics are not convinced that bad family dynamics should make audiences sympathetic to reckless, sarcastic, destructive heroes. Preview's critic reports, "No redeeming elements were found in any scrap of this film."Ted Baehr (Movieguide) finds that the film is true to the '60s, but too mean-spirited to do any good. He calls it "vicious, sarcastic and depressing. This is the poison pen of the politics of envy, which refuses to see the...