The weight

Igby Goes Down

(2002)

Huh! Didn't occur to me 'til the end credits how indebted this is to a novel by a dead-this-week novelist that I'm thinking about rereading.

Saw it when it was new, didn't remember much except that I liked it, had had it on my DVR playlist for a year or more, and was inspired to watch it by an article in the Times about Claire Danes, whom I'd forgotten was in this (and who is, duh, terrific--as is Amanda Peet, and I did remember that).

Anyway, this is pretty much Holden if Holden smoked a lot of dope and had sex occasionally--oh, right: and if he helped kill his awful mother.