Review of Igby Goes Down

I really enjoyed this film on a personal level. It has terrific acting, a great script and wonderful direction. The one thing it doesn't have is much originality. The plot has many similarities to two other coming-of-age stories catcher in the rye and this side of paradise, not to mention its many filmic antecedents, such as the graduate. The script is rife with great dialogue and loaded with quirky characters straight out of the canon fitzgerald and salinger. Also, directed and filmed rather conventionally with too much annoying hippie music. This film isn't startlingly original or innovative on a cinematic level but it uses standard cinematic techniques and narrativity quite well. For a more interesting coming of age film further down on the socioeconomic ladder, watch SLC Punk, which is more relevant and revolutionary to this decade even though it was about the last one.