Metropolitan (1990)
Closed CaptioningWhit Stillman
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About the Movie
In Whit Stillman's Oscar-nominated classic, a group of young upper-class Manhattanites are in the midst of their gala debutante season when an unusual outsider joins them and stirs things up.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
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91%- Reviews Counted: 32
- Fresh: 29
- Rotten: 3
- Average Rating: 7.7/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: Filmmaker Whit Stillman makes a strikingly original debut with Metropolitan, a glib, ironic portrait of the vulnerable young heirs to Manhattan's disappearing debutante scene.
Fresh: Stillman hasn't made as hermetically appealing a movie since, but for those lamenting the absence of the written word in modern comedy - rather than the improvisationally blurted-out kind - "Metropolitan" makes for delightful memory-lane viewing.
Fresh: It might make you long for a return to movies in which teens have a greater vocabulary than their parents.
Fresh: Stillman films these rounds of romance and jealousy, old mind-sets and new friendships, as scintillating dialectical jousts in which verbal blows take the place of action and leave lasting emotional wounds.
Customer Reviews
Classic New York Coming of Age
This isn't your typical John Hughes teenage coming of age story. The John Hughes movies were great and all, but this is much more an indie affair. But not in the way you'd expect. This movie presents a story about awkward romance among New York debs and WASP rituals that's very conservative in its outlook. And all the more refreshing because of it. It doesn't have a happy ending, particularly. Not much happens, really. Boy meets girl and doesn't really end up with her. It's like a New York version of American Graffitti meets Jane Austen. It's bittersweet and nostalgic and felt very true to me. Because even the Park Avenue UHB's (don't ask) are pretty much like the kids from anywhere USA after all when you get right down to it.
Metropolitan
For some reason I did not like the ending the second time that I saw the movie. It may have been because I did not want it to end. I have been looking for a copy of this movie for such a long time that I put it out of my mind in order not to long for it any more. I think that it is quite sophisticated and that the theme is a bit dark, but not overly so. I liked it.
Sublimely Written
The screenplay is delightful, and the performances are superb. So intelligent and witty that it is in a class by itself. Please make Barcelona and The Last Days of Disco available as well.
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