Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: Jason Slocumb is misanthropic 17-year-old boy rebelling against oppressive world of strict East Coast old money family, Fact2: schizophrenic father has been committed to institution, Fact3: Igby After is sent to New York escaping and spending time in Chicago hotel courtesy of mother 's credit card, Fact4: D.H. Rather than escapes hiding out with Rachel and performance artist friend return to school, Fact5: family In to get call him Igby him to take responsibility for actions
Output (English): Jason Igby Slocumb, Jr. Kieran Culkin is a misanthropic 17yearold boy, rebelling against the oppressive world of his strict East Coast old money family. His schizophrenic father, Jason Bill Pullman, has been committed to an institution. Igby fears he will eventually suffer a mental breakdown like his father. His mother, Mimi Susan Sarandon, is selfabsorbed and distant and has a tendency to drink heavily. Igby mockingly describes his ambitious older brother Ollie Ryan Phillippe as a fascist or, alternatively, a Young Republican, and that he studies neofascism economics at Columbia University. Igby figures there must be a better life out there, and he sets out to find it, rebelling against his family at every opportunity. After happily flunking out of several prep schools, he ends up in a brutal military academy where he gets beaten by his classmates. After escaping and spending time in a Chicago hotel courtesy of his mothers credit card, Igby is sent to New York for the summer to his godfather D.H. Banes Jeff Goldblum. While working construction for D.H., Igby first encounters Rachel Amanda Peet, his godfathers heroinaddicted trophy mistress. Rather than return to school, he escapes into the bohemian underworld of Manhattan, hiding out with Rachel and her performance artist friend Russel Jared Harris. Eventually, he and Rachel have sex. After being suspected and scolded by D.H., he then hooks up with terminally bored, parttime lover, Sookie Claire Danes, only for her to later leave him for Ollie. Despite seeming cold and distant, Mimi is not unaffected by her rebellious son. She describes Igbys conception as an act of animosity and it shouldnt be a surprise that his life follows the same course. His name is explained as a family injoke. As a child, he would blame his toy bear, Digby, for things he had done, mispronouncing it as Igby. In order to get him to take responsibility for his actions, his family would call him Igby whenever he lied. Igby is informed by Russell that his mother Mimi is dying from breast cancer and so he returns to see her. She has arranged to commit suicide with help from Ollie, who feeds her poisoned strawberry yogurt. Before she dies, Mimi makes a final revelation, casually inquiring of Igby, I take it you know that D.H. is your father? Igby leaves for Los Angeles in an attempt to finally make a clean break by getting 3,000 miles away from his family.