Still image from the 1990 film Metropolitan.

Metropolitan

Directed by Whit Stillman

A group of friends from New York's haute-bourgeoisie gather together during the holiday season.

1990 1h 38m Comedy TV-14

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CAST
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Whit Stillman, Director
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Whit Stillman
Director

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Carolyn Farina, Audrey Rouget
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Carolyn Farina
Audrey Rouget

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Edward Clements, Tom Townsend
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Edward Clements
Tom Townsend

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Chris Eigeman, Nick Smith
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Chris Eigeman
Nick Smith

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Taylor Nichols, Charlie Black
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Taylor Nichols
Charlie Black

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Allison Rutledge-parisi, Jane Clarke
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Jane Clarke

FULL SYNOPSIS

A group of friends from New York's haute-bourgeoisie gather together during the holiday season.


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ARTICLES
"Finally... a film about the downwardly mobile," declared the posters for Metropolitan (1990). Writer-director Whit Stillman's debut feature was a true independent production, one of the key success stories of the era's indie film movement. The original tagline had actually been "Doomed. Bourgeois. In love.", but Stillman said he found that one too "depressing" and changed it. The film is a satirical look at a small group of highly privileged Manhattan teenage socialites -- debutantes and their male "escorts" -- who spend their college Christmas vacation at home in Manhattan, attending black-tie dances and parties every evening before rounding out the night with intimate after-parties in their Park Avenue apartments. Mostly they party at the home of Sally Fowler (Dylan Hundley), which is why they call themselves the SFRP, or Sally Fowler Rat Pack. They talk about literature, sociology, politics, and sex and romance. The group's newcomer is Tom (Edward Clements), a relatively "poor" member who lives on the west side (gasp!), doesn't take cabs (gasp!), and wears a raincoat because he can't afford a proper overcoat. This is a world -- and a film -- in which talk is taken very seriously, relays much meaning, and can wound people. Yet for all the scenes of people talking in rooms -- which make up almost the entire movie -- Metropolitan has something interesting and witty to say about this very specific subset of New York society. One character, Charlie (Taylor Nichols), c...

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