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Whit Stillman (writer)
Release Date:
3 August 1990 (USA)
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Tagline:
Finally... A film about the downwardly mobile.
Plot:
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. full summary | add synopsis
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Nominated for Oscar.
Another 4 wins
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4 nominations
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Free Flick of the Day: The Last Days of Disco
(From Cinematical. 11 November 2009, 4:35 PM, PST)
Cinematical Seven: Filling In for Whit Stillman, The Yuppie Conversation King
(From Cinematical. 25 August 2009, 8:02 PM, PDT)
(From Cinematical. 11 November 2009, 4:35 PM, PST)
Cinematical Seven: Filling In for Whit Stillman, The Yuppie Conversation King
(From Cinematical. 25 August 2009, 8:02 PM, PDT)
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Carolyn Farina | ... | Audrey Rouget |
| Edward Clements | ... | Tom Townsend |
 | Chris Eigeman | ... | Nick Smith (as Christopher Eigeman) |
 | Taylor Nichols | ... | Charlie Black |
| Allison Parisi | ... | Jane Clark |
 | Dylan Hundley | ... | Sally Fowler |
 | Isabel Gillies | ... | Cynthia McLean |
| Bryan Leder | ... | Fred Neff |
 | Will Kempe | ... | Rick Von Sloneker |
| Ellia Thompson | ... | Serena Slocum (as Elizabeth Thompson) |
| Stephen Uys | ... | Victor Lemley |
| Roger W. Kirby | ... | Man at Bar (Dick Edwards) |
| Alice Connorton | ... | Mrs. Townsend |
| Linda Gillies | ... | Mrs. Rouget |
| John Lynch | ... | Allen Green (as John Lynch) |
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Will Kempe was originally cast as "Nick Smith". There is even an outtake of him in the role on the 2005 DVD.
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Tom Townsend:
[to Serena Slocum] I haven't been giving you the silent treatment. I just haven't been talking to you.
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Features The Yule Log (1966) (TV)
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Tell Me
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I saw "Metropolitan" a couple of months ago, was fairly impressed with it on its own talky, cerebral terms, and took it back to the video store. Since then, it's grown on me to the point where I have to place its script up there with the best of Chekhov and "The Big Chill." Concerning the Manhattan prep and deb season of some unspecified year past, "Metropolitan" transports your mind into a social order that exists just beyond our consciousness: where young socialites discuss Fourier without conviction, Jane Austen without having read her work, and love without never having really been in it. It's sweet, smart and touching all at the same time. The characters are flawed and doomed -- though, as one character notes, not doomed to failure, but just doomed to a normal, boring lifestyle -- and we can't help but love them for it. Go to Blockbuster and rent it tonight; if you can't find it there, go to Amazon, order it, and allow 1-2 weeks for delivery. It's that good. This was Whit Stillman's first of three similarly themed films; the second, "Barcelona," is subpar, but "The Last Days of Disco" closes the trilogy with a delicious return to form.