Phonies! Movies Inspired by J.D. Salinger

Igby Goes Down, 2002
Igby Goes Down, starring Kieran Culkin, is a story about a 17-year-old misfit boy who happily flunks out of prep school and military school, rejects his old-money parents, pursues relationships with older women and escapes into the bohemian underworld of Manhattan. Sound familiar? Screenwriter and director Burr Steers maintains Igby is more of an autobiography than a nod to Salinger. "I wasn't consciously influenced by Catcher in the Rye," Steers, who was kicked out of a prep school and a military school, told the San Francisco Chronicle in 2002. "I liken it to being a musician and being influenced by the music ingrained in you, like the Beatles."

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