Igby, I could just eat you with a spoon

I just watched Igby Goes Down, on Joe Day's recommendation.
It was quite possibly the most amazing movie ever. Or at least, in a long time. It's made in the spirit of Catcher in the Rye, but it's an original, refreshing film. Basically it's about 17 year old Igby, who after several expulsions from expensive private schools, runs away from military school and spends some time in New York. He's got a ridiculously dysfunctional family- schizophrenic father, neurotic mother, and a Young Republican older brother who goes to Columbia. I should mention that I'm completely in love with Igby, the disaffected, snarky young man that he is.
And yes, I know this sounds famliar, but I love Igby more than I ever loved Holden, and to top it off, Clare Danes is in it and she's actually quite attractive for a change. Also, Ryan Phillippe is Oliver, the Young Republican and Amanda Peet (topless!) is Rachel. So, eye-candy reasons to watch the film are also there.
It's heartbreaking and intense and insanely funny and really, you should watch it as soon as you can.
I'll leave you with these quotes, and some pictures.

Sookie: What kind of a name is Igby?
Igby: It's the kind of name someone named Sookie is in no position to question.
Oliver: Sookie. Sookie, where do you go to shcool?
Sookie: Bennington.
Igby: Ollie's majoring in neo-facism at Columbia.
Oliver: Economics.
Igby: Semantics.

or

Igby: I haven't even taken my GED yet.
Sookie: So take it.
Igby: Ah, I gotta go to Hackensack.
Sookie: So go! Stop procrastinating, it's nearly Christmas.
Igby: Not going to New Jersy isn't procrastinating, it's common sense.

More quotes here. If reading them doesn't make you want to watch the film, you are dead to me.

( Good things come to obsessive-compulsives who fixate.  )