'Igby Goes Down' Is an Underrated Gem

Igby Goes Down is one of those movies you could easily call a “cult classic,” since basically everything these days is described that way. (Writers love to think a movie they loved from a few decades back deserves a fresh look even when it maybe doesn’t, and especially when it’s way more popular than they realize.) But it feels like there's something different with Igby—a film that most people I talk to who saw it around its release tend to love. Its legacy isn’t so much tied to its performance at the box office ($7 million on a $9 million budget), or whether or not Criterion is going to re-release it on Blu-Ray (it won’t).