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Metropolitan

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Criterion / Year: 1990

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Synopsis

One of the most the most significant achievements of the American independent film movement of the 1990s, writer-director Whit Stillman’s debut, Metropolitan, is a sparkling comedic chronicle of a middle-class young man’s romantic misadventures among New York City’s debutante society. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, Stillman’s deft, literate script and hilariously high-brow observations mask a tender tale of adolescent anxiety.

Review

A cast of unknowns breathes life into first-time writer-director Stillman's Oscar nominated screenplay about a preppie "divorce orphan," from the less-than-fashionable Upper West Side, who falls in with the right crowd for a season of meaningless social events. He mocks their empty lifestyle with a refreshing no-holds-barred honesty, which, while not comedic in content, transforms Metropolitan into hilarious social satire.