Metropolitan

1990

Action / Comedy / Drama / Romance

15
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 94% · 48 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 84% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.2/10 10 13854 13.9K

new york city upper class philosophy manhattan, new york city debutante socialite party

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Plot summary

A radical student is adopted by a group of young New Yorkers, serves as a catalyst to alter his and their lives. Gathering in a Manhattan apartment, the group of friends meet to discuss social mobility, Fourier's socialism and play bridge in their cocoon of upper-class society - until they are joined by a man with a critical view of their way of life.

Director

Whit Stillman Photo
Whit Stillman

Top cast

Taylor Nichols Photo
Taylor Nichols as Charlie Black
Isabel Gillies Photo
Isabel Gillies as Cynthia McLean
Chris Eigeman Photo
Chris Eigeman as Nick Smith
Donal Lardner Ward Photo
Donal Lardner Ward as North Greenwich Preppie
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817.13 MB
1204*720
English 2.0
PG-13
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 38 min
Seeds 2
1.56 GB
1792*1072
English 2.0
PG-13
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 38 min
Seeds 12

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by griggs79 6 / 10

Whit Stillman’s _Metropolitan_ offers a witty and arch

Whit Stillman’s _Metropolitan_ offers a witty and arch glimpse into the lives of Upper East Side debutantes and their slightly aimless escorts during Christmas break. It's like _The Breakfast Club_, but with black-tie soirées instead of detention and ironic detachment and spirited Jane Austen debates instead of teen angst. The film's charm is sure to intrigue you. The film’s champagne fizz and sharp repartee conceal a darker undercurrent. Characters like the sardonic Nick, a disillusioned heir to a fortune, and brooding Charlie, a struggling artist from a wealthy family, exude a cool cynicism that hints at Patrick Bateman-esque disaffection, making one wonder if Brett Easton Ellis found inspiration here for _American Psycho’s_ chilling socialites. While some scenes flirt with overindulgence, _Metropolitan_ still cuts through with moments of incisive charm. Its privileged protagonists may test patience, but their quirks make them hard to look away from.
Reviewed by evanston_dad 7 / 10

A Dying Breed

Whit Stillman managed to make a talky movie about a bunch of pampered, privileged, opinionated college students running around in the most elite New York society, and not make me hate all of them.That really is a testament to the tone Stillman is able to strike, because I should have found these people to be intolerable. Instead, I found them weirdly endearing, even the cockiest of them, because they seem so fragile and vulnerable underneath their rich swankiness. These are a bunch of kids who have been so isolated from the real world that all they know how to do is act like their parents, which means they're all 20 going on 50. Seriously, they wear suits and dresses all the time and go to cocktail parties where they dance the fox trot. And the movie's saving grace is that they all seem to know to one degree or another that they're not entirely ready for the big world out there, and they cling to their social group because they're scared of the alternative. This makes them very human. After all, aren't we all, no matter our specific circumstances, just trying to do the best we can with what we're given?"Metropolitan" brought Stillman a Best Original Screenplay Oscar nomination in 1990.Grade: B+
Reviewed by narcpress 8 / 10

The Wondrous Wit of Whit

Brilliantly written. Stillman's first in his trilogy, this sets the standard for the offbeat banter and dialogue of the two films that followed, "Barcelona," and "The Last Days of Disco." Surprisingly great acting, I think, as well--from a cast of, at the time at least, relative no names. As talkfests go, this is a keeper.

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