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Metropolitan is a 1990 American romantic comedy-drama film produced, written and directed by Whit Stillman, in his feature directorial debut. The film concerns the lives of a group of wealthy young socialites during debutante season in Manhattan.
Aug 3, 1990 · Metropolitan: Directed by Whit Stillman. With Carolyn Farina, Edward Clements, Chris Eigeman, Taylor Nichols. A group of young upper-class Manhattanites are blithely passing through the gala debutante season, when an unusual outsider joins them and stirs them up.
- (12K)
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Whit Stillman
- 1990-08-03
Aug 10, 1990 · "Metropolitan" holds a glass up to the lives and values of a group of New York preppies during the debutante season. They live in a world I dimly knew existed, but one as alien to me as if they belonged to a tribe in the Amazon. Yet their motives are universally recognizable: They want to be accepted, admired and loved.
One of the great American independent films of the 1990s, the surprise hit Metropolitan, by writer-director Whit Stillman, is a sparkling comedic chronicle of a young man’s romantic misadventures while trying to fit in to New York City’s debutante society.
- Audrey Rouget
93% Tomatometer 43 Reviews. 84% Audience Score 5,000+ Ratings. A radical student is adopted by a group of young New Yorkers, serves as a catalyst to alter his and their lives.
- (43)
- Whit Stillman
- PG-13
- Carolyn Farina
Home on winter break during the debutante season, middle-class Princeton student Tom falls in with a group of Upper East Side friends from the urban haute bourgeoisie. As naïf Tom is accepted into the group, he becomes smitten with Audrey while struggling with his feelings for his ex Serena.
Metropolitan (1990) Also see the Metropolitan credits page. View the complete movie for free online at Hulu.com (USA only) IMDb entry. The DVD and Blu-Ray at the Criterion Collection. Available to rent in the US iTunes Store. The poster illustration by Pierre Le-Tan (accessible from this page ).
