Macaulay's 19-year-old brother finally makes his own version of ''Home Alone'' -- a dark comedy about a financially privileged, emotionally wrecked Manhattan family. Culkin (''The Cider House Rules'') plays a teenager dealing with a batty, dying mother (Sarandon), a snotty older brother (Phillippe), and a weirdo of a godfather (Goldblum). At least he's got a sweetheart of a girlfriend (Danes).
The writing and directing debut for Steers (who appeared in ''The Last Days of Disco''), ''Igby'' was inspired in part by his own New York childhood. ''It's about a kid who's rebelling against an oppressive, stifling, old-money world that he's been born into,'' he says. As for finding the perfect lead, Steers -- who was on the verge of losing financing after another actor dropped out -- remembers that ''I hadn't slept for basically a year and a half, and I walked in and Kieran said, ‘You look like s---.' I thought, This is the kid.''
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