The Last Days of Disco
The Last Days of Disco is a 1998 comedydrama film written and directed by Whit Stillman and loosely based on his travels and experiences in various nightclubs in Manhattan, including Studio 54. The film concerns a group of Ivy League and Hampshire graduates falling in and out of love in the disco scene of New York City in the very early 1980s. Chlo Sevigny and Kate Beckinsale have the lead roles.
In the early 1980s Alice Kinnon Chlo Sevigny and Charlotte Pingress Kate Beckinsale, two young Hampshire College graduates. work in a New York publishing house as poorly paid readers. After work they are able to enter an exclusive disco nightclub where Alice is hoping to meet Jimmy Steinway Mackenzie Astin, who works in advertising and uses the nightclub to entertain clients. Jimmy is illtempered because he has been barred from bringing clients to the nightclub and is eventually kicked out by his friend Des McGrath Chris Eigeman, who works as a manager at the club but whose job is in jeopardy for allowing Jimmy and his clients inside.After Jimmy leaves, Alice takes Charlottes advice to go home with her second choice, Tom Platt Robert Sean Leonard. ........
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