Rent Metropolitan (1990)

3.6 of 5 from 110 ratings
1h 38min
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Synopsis:
One of the great American independent films of the 1990's, the surprise hit 'Metropolitan' by writer-director Whit Stillman, is a sparkling comedic chronicle of a middle-class young man's romantic misadventures in New York City's debutante society. Stillman's deft, literate dialogue and hilariously highbrow observations earned this first film an Academy Award nomination for best original screenplay. Alongside the wit and sophistication, though, lies a tender tale of adolescent anxiety.
Actors:
, , , , Allison Parisi, , , , , , Stephen Uys, Roger W. Kirby, Alice Connorton, Linda Gillies, , , Thomas R. Voth, Caroline Bennett, , Joel S. Schreiber
Directors:
Producers:
Whit Stillman
Voiced By:
J. Harden Rose
Writers:
Whit Stillman
Studio:
Metrodome
Genres:
Comedy
Collections:
12 Films of Christmas Present, Holidays Film Collection, Top 10 Films By Year, Top Films of 1990: Vol. 2
BBFC:
Release Date:
17/07/2006
Run Time:
98 minutes
Languages:
English Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono
Subtitles:
English Hard of Hearing
DVD Regions:
Region 2
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen 1.66:1
Colour:
Colour
Bonus:
  • Exclusive UK Audio Commentary with Director Whit Stillman
  • Isolated Score
  • Theatrical Trailer
BBFC:
Release Date:
07/05/2018
Run Time:
99 minutes
Languages:
English LPCM Mono
Subtitles:
English Hard of Hearing
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen 1.66:1
Colour:
Colour
BLU-RAY Regions:
B
Bonus:
  • Audio commentary by Stillman, editor Christopher Tellefsen, and actors Christopher Eigeman and Taylor Nichols
  • Rare outtakes and alternate casting, with commentary by Stillman
  • An essay by critic Luc Sante

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Reviews (2) of Metropolitan

Clever and Catchy Drama - Metropolitan review by JS

Spoiler Alert
03/01/2018

I very much liked this film for its cleverness and catchy humour throughout. It gently sent up the New York Preppie class but in such a way that you still liked them and were on their side.

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Address Codes - Metropolitan review by CH

Spoiler Alert
04/03/2024

Jeunesse dorée. Gilded youth has been a part of every generation. Over thirty years ago, in Metropolitan (1990) some of those on Manhattan’s Upper East Side were back from college for the Christmas vacation, their haunts various bars and sofa-laden apartments. Here is much talk less profound to anybody listening in than to those sparring with one another to appear informed and languid.

Written and directed by Whit Stillman, it was made on a small budget, and met with success. Audiences divided into those who saw it as a latter-day incarnation of Scott Fitzgerald and those who thought it bluntly indulged those who vapoured on about lives which turned in and around dating.

It is not so much a comedy as a mood, even perhaps a short story which has become unduly elaborated. At its core is somebody (Edward Clements) who has come in their orbit despite living in a small place the other side of the Park. He forms something of a friendship with bespectacled Chris Eigman who elaborates his theories of class distinction while in the room there come and go women talking of Jane Austen - and there are more references to critic Lionel Trilling than is is good for the soul.

For all the panoply of romance, the essence of the film is that disappointment beckons. Men as much as women are shaken when realising that not only putative love but groups of apparent friends are a staging post. The horses are untied and the caravan goes separate ways.

Others will have found the same after coming of age and more in the decades since their infancy at the time of the film’s release - and even made films about it.

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