Metropolitan is the debut film by director and screenwriter Whit Stillman. It received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay.
Shot on location in Manhattan and Long Island, the movie depicts the lives of young, well-educated upper-class New Yorkers (or, as one character calls them, the "urban haute bourgeoisie") during debutante ball season while home for winter break in their first year of college.
Middle-class Princeton student Tom T...
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Metropolitan is the debut film by director and screenwriter Whit Stillman. It received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay.
Shot on location in Manhattan and Long Island, the movie depicts the lives of young, well-educated upper-class New Yorkers (or, as one character calls them, the "urban haute bourgeoisie") during debutante ball season while home for winter break in their first year of college.
Middle-class Princeton student Tom Townsend, an admirer of Charles Fourier's socialism and self-absorbed "radical," attends a ball one evening on a whim and meets a small group of popular young socialites with whom he shares some mutual friends - including Serena Slocumb, who Tom dated briefly at boarding school and now pines for. Unbeknownst to Tom, another girl in the group, Audrey, has a crush on him.
Tom attends several more balls and after-parties over the course of two weeks, gradually becoming ingratiated with this group of people he had claimed to disdain. Chief among...
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