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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
catcher in the rye? that's kinda igby goes down, pretty much. which i liked a lot when i saw it. maybe on account of my film crush on sookie sapperstein. but yeah. igby was very much a holden cuntifield, in his way, updated for the 2000s. it's definitely an adaptation.
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well, not an adaptation, but yeah, definitely an homage. I felt the same way when that film first came out. I felt that it did a pretty good job of fulfilling a desire some folks might have to see a Holden-esque character on screen without the fallout that would inevitably come from commercializing such a cherished classic. I don't ever want to see Catcher in the Rye directly adapted into a film. Ever. No Fucking thank you. But I did really like Igby Goes Down, and thought it had the kind of spirit that a Catcher film would need.
Not sure how it would hold up today. Haven't seen it since way back, but I definitely loved it at the time.