Metropolitan (1990 film)

Metropolitan is the debut film by director and screenwriter Whit Stillman. It received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay. The film is often considered the first of a trilogy of Stillman films, followed by Barcelona 1994, but written before Metropolitan and The Last Days of Disco 1998.

Middleclass Princeton student Tom Townsend, an admirer of Charles Fouriers socialism, attends a dress ball one evening on a whim. After the ball, a mixup leads to his meeting a small group of young Upper East Side socialites known as the Sally Fowler Rat Pack, after the girl whose apartment they use for afterhours parties. Believing that they accidentally stole a taxi from Tom, they decide to invite him to their afterhours party, to prevent ill feelings.Tom decides to attend the party, and befriends several other attendees, including Nick Smith, a cynical dandy who takes Tom under his wing Audrey, a shy girl who enjoys Regency era literature and has a crush on Tom and Charlie, an overly philosophical nerd with an unrequited love for Audrey. Tom learns that he and the Rat Pack have some common friends, including his exgirlfriend Serena Slocumb, with whom he remains infatuated. ........

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