Metropolitan
United States • 1990
Director
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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.
Synopsis
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.
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Crew
DirectorWhit Stillman
WriterWhit Stillman
CinematographerJohn Thomas
ComposerMark Suozzo, Tom Judson
EditorChristopher Tellefsen
ProducerWhit Stillman, Jose Luis García