Amanda Harris

Writer/director Burr Steers' critically acclaimed comedy-drama stars Kieran Culkin as the titular Igby Slocumb, a 17-year-old prep school dropout who struggles to avoid being pulled into the intellectually and spiritually vapid world of his privileged but dysfunctional Manhattan family. Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Susan Sarandon, Claire Danes, Amanda Peet, Ryan Phillippe and Jared Harris costar in this 'Catcher in the Rye'-style independent charmer. <!-- exceptions -->

Igby Goes Down movie trailer - starring Susan Sarandon, Jeff Goldblum, Amanda Peet, Claire Danes, Jared Harris, Kieran Culkin. Directed by Burr Steers. Genre: Comedy Rating: R

Roman Polanski and writer Ronal Harwood re-imagine Charles Dickens' classic story of a young orphan boy who gets involved with a gang of pickpockets in 19th Century London. Abandoned at an early age, Oliver Twist (Barney Clark) is forced to live in a workhouse lorded over by the awful Mr. Bumble, who cheats the boys of their meager rations. Desperate yet determined, Oliver makes his escape to the streets of London. Penniless and alone, he is lured into a world of crime by the sinister Fagin (Sir Ben Kingsley) - the mastermind of a gang of pint-sized pickpockets. Oliver's rescue by the kindly Mr. Brownlow is only the beginning of a series of adventures that lead him to the promise of a better life.