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Metropolitan

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Metropolitan
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PG13,1hr 38min
Genres:
Comedy,Drama
Released:
August 3, 1990
Director:
Whit Stillman
Distributor:
Criterion
Starring:
Carolyn Farina, Edward Clements, Christopher Eigeman  ...more
Synopsis: The debut film from writer-director Whit Stillman etches a sophisticated comic portrait of New York debutante society at the twilight of the 1980s. Set during the Christmas season, the film is told from the vantage point of Tom Townsend (Edward Clements), a self-professed proletarian radical who stumbles into the social sphere of a group of well-off Upper East Side twentysomethings calling themselves the SFRP (or Sally Fowler Rat Pack, named in honor of a frequent party hostess). The group includes ... Full Synopsis
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Michael Hastings, AMG Review
Though Richard Linklater and Kevin Smith may get most of the credit for giving birth to the downwardly-mobile post-adolescent talkfests of the '90s independent film boom, writer/director Whit Stillman's auspicious debut served to establish the other end of the spectrum. Set in an unspecified time "not so long ago," Metropolitan pokes affectionate fun at Stillman's ilk: overeducated East Coast preppies ... Full Review
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Carolyn Farina
Audrey Rouget
Edward Clements
Tom Townsend
Christopher Eigeman
Nick Smith
Taylor Nichols
Charlie Black
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