Metropolitan (1990)

Director

• Whit Stillman

Starring

• Edward Clements
• Carolyn Farina
• Christopher Eigeman [Chris Eigeman]
• Taylor Nichols
• Allison Rutledge-Parisi

Last On

00:40-02:15 Sat 10th Dec 2011 95m
BBC2

Synopsis

Writer-director Whit Stillman's witty comedy of manners (which won an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature) pokes gentle fun at a group of upper-class Manhattan preppies who gather regularly to play bridge and engage in intellectual discussion. Led by acerbic cynic Nick (Christopher Eigeman), the coterie adopts "proletariat" Tom Townsend (Edward Clements), who has reservations about his new socialite friends and what they represent.