Featuring one of the most urbane American film scripts since "All About Eve", this classic debut film from Director Whit Stillman gives a knowing nod to Jane Austen, but is more particularly reminiscent of the best of Evelyn Waugh and F. Scott Fitzgerald's novels on privileged, sometimes disaffected, youth. Stillman draws the viewer into the lives of a group of Upper East Side college students home for Christmas break, through the eyes of an interloper to their world. Tom Townsend, the film's Everyman who, to his chagrin, is only half-UHB ("Urban Haute-Bourgeoisie"), wants very much to fit into a world of social debutantes and exclusive holiday parties, but his attire, his address, and his naive understanding of women all conspire against him. The cast is filled with acerbically witty, mostly unknown actors who enjoy inhabiting their characters, as well as getting to use throwaway lines that would make Dorothy Parker proud - particularly the brilliant Chris Eigeman. Ultimately the film succeeds in being a sweet, never saccharine, take on young people and their choice whether to leave behind the comforts of extended childhood and tasteful hedonism for something more meaningful.
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Metropolitan
In Whit Stillman's Oscar-nominated classic, a group of young upper-class Manhattanites are in the midst of their gala debutante season when an unusual outsider joins them and stirs things up.Title Details
Network / StudioTitleMetropolitanChannelsDescriptionA group of young upper-class Manhattanites are in the midst of their gala debutante season when an unusual outsider joins them and stirs them up.GenreComedyRelease DateAugust 03, 1990
Cast Information
Edward ClementsActorChristopher EigemanActorCarolyn FarinaActorIsabel GilliesActorDylan HundleyActorElizabeth ThompsonActorBryan LederActorTaylor NicholsActorAllison ParisiActorWill KempeActor
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