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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Its sharply observed, affluent Brooklyn family breakup shares Igby’s literate cruelty, adolescent confusion, and comic discomfort, while keeping the emotional damage close beneath the witty dialogue.
02
Why this pick
A stylised portrait of gifted, wounded siblings navigating a spectacularly dysfunctional privileged family; its deadpan humour and melancholy make a natural companion to Igby’s rebellion.
03
Why this pick
This has the same caustic young-person perspective and refusal to sentimentalise alienation, following a clever misfit whose observations are funny precisely because they are so cutting.
04
Why this pick
Its polished suburban world hides negligent parents and emotionally stranded teenagers, combining darkly absurd humour with the uneasy sense that adulthood is an untrustworthy performance.
05
Why this pick
Less aristocratic and more tender, but similarly attuned to lonely, eccentric people trying to escape prescribed roles; its offbeat humour finds vulnerability in social awkwardness.
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01 / THE STORY
Jason "Igby" Slocumb Jr. is a misanthropic 17-year-old boy, rebelling against the oppressive world of his strict East Coast "old money" family. Igby fears that he will eventually suffer a mental breakdown like his schizophrenic father, Jason, who has been committed to an institution. His mother, Mimi, is self-absorbed and distant and tends to drink heavily. Igby mockingly describes his ambitious older brother Ollie as a fascist or a Young Republican who studies "neo-fascism" (economics) at Columbia University.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Jason 'Igby' Slocumb, Jr.
Rachel
Mimi Slocumb
13-Year-Old Oliver
Ida
Hockey Player
Hilton Manager
Therapist
