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Metropolitan [DVD] [1990]

Carolyn Farina (Actor), Edward Clements (Actor), Whit Stillman (Director) | Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over | Format: DVD
4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Carolyn Farina, Edward Clements, Chris Eigeman, Taylor Nichols, Allison Parisi
  • Directors: Whit Stillman
  • Format: PAL, Colour
  • Language: English
  • Subtitles: English
  • Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.66:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Metrodome Distribution
  • DVD Release Date: 17 July 2006
  • Run Time: 98 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000FBHBOC
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 33,925 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)

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Whit Stillman makes his directorial debut with this comedy of manners, for which he also provides the script. In New York, quiet middle-class student Tom (Edward Clements) finds himself adopted by a bunch of wealthy upper East Side debutantes and their boyfriends. All his preconceptions about the rich are questioned as they reveal themselves through conversation. 'Metropolitan' forms a loose trilogy with the director's other two films, 'Barcelona' and 'The Last Days of Disco'.

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Jane Austen in Manhattan 22 July 2006
By R. Chapman
Format:DVD
Whit Stillman is the most exciting, amusing, sophisticated and original film maker to emerge from the states in the last twenty years. He followed up this low-buget gem (with an oscar nominated witty script) with Barcelona and The Last Days of Disco, making a trilogy of moral tales. Since then he has been silent, with reports of projects falling through, which is a genuine American tragedy. Perhaps he is too subtle and literate for our times and the harsh commercial realities of the American system. But, at least if only for a brief time, Stillman's talent shone bright and created a trilogy of American masterpieces that will take their place with the classics.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Warm witty elegant masterpiece 16 Dec 2006
By patrick 1916
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
It is a simple story of an outsider among some New York socialiates during their debs season but what a great story. The dialogue is excellent, the acting crisp and warm hearted. In between this scintillating script and great comedy there is a beautiful love story. I loved it. It is a tragedy that Whitman is not making movies likes this any more, what happened to all these great actors. It is a great Christmas movie or any time movie, can be watched over and over again and will give pleasure with every repeat viewing.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A great little film 5 Feb 2010
By A. J. Ellis
Format:DVD
This is a great film for those who love literate scripts and memorable characters. OK so it's mostly a film where nothing much happens, but nonetheless it holds the attention. I first saw it at the cinema and have watched it on video and now on dvd at least once a year since then and it never dulls. As previous reviewers have noted, its a shame Whit Stillman is not active these days, but perhaps his style isn't compatible with the ideas of the bean-counters who run the film industry these days. A car chase would be out of place in his type of film. (although there is an explosion in his Barcelona movie). To sum up, it's a great little film, but also a great big classic.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Shock! Better than Woody Allen! 27 Oct 2008
By S.M. Gidley
Format:DVD
I had waited ages to see this film. I had seen Barcelona and the Last Days of Disco and needed Metropolitan to complete the Whit Stillman set. It wasn't on video, it was never shown on TV and there was an interminable wait for it to be released on DVD.

The tale is a familiar one (think Brideshead Revisited) where a less privileged outsider finds himself in the world a couple of rungs up the ladder and not entirely comfortable with it. Tom Townsend is a Charles Ryder (single parent home, cash-strapped, doesn't have the right clothes) of the 1980s who purely by the chance of a mix-up with a taxi ends up as part of the Sally Fowler Rat Pack, a group of preppy college students who are doing the rounds of the debutante balls over Christmas in New York.

So was the wait worth it? Yes it was, although I do think that Metropolitan is a bit of a tough nut to crack; it took me a couple of watches to get into the rhythm of it and to latch on to its humour.

Stillman was nominated for an Oscar for the screenplay (and lost out to Ghost! Ha!) and it's easy to see why. I think it has a lot more to recommend it than Woody Allen and the humour is more sophisticated than Allen's which is amusing in itself when you consider that Stillman's concerns are centred on a group of teenagers. Metropolitan is certainly a very chatty film, with characters who are prone to crippling self-examination and also not above introducing new terms to the language (UHB - urban haute bourgeoisie anyone?), however another of Stillman's strengths is creating characters who are very nuanaced rather than galumphing stereotypes.... Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 stars An American Rohmer 20 Jun 2010
By amantedofado
Format:DVD
Walt Stillman was the only American director capable of making movies in the style of Rohmer and other French directors: little action, people in rooms talking. Metropolitan remains the best of his three-film output, and deserves to be up near the top of anybody's list of need-to-watch American cinema. The love story between Tom and Audrey is also a love story between social classes and a story of how love can break through stifling social barriers. Stillman handles that side of the film with amazing delicacy, and in the actress who plays Audrey (and hasn't played anything since) he has found a perfect heroine. She's not an obvious 'pretty' woman, but before long you see her with Tom's eyes as a charming, lovely woman who is really the only one among the characters to have a heart. Tom does too, but not as completely or sweetly as Audrey, and you are left feeling that he has been immensely lucky to find her. All this happens while the cast intellectualize and strut and show how petty their world is. In that sense, Audrey is also 'saved', since you feel Tom will take her away from the artificial realm her friends inhabit.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Like stepping into somebody elses shoes 12 Jan 2002
By Gordon
Format:VHS Tape
For Tom, a less well off Princeton student, to be 'adopted' by a group of social elites, a journey of self discovery is possible in a world he never thought he'd see. A film focussing on character plots within all of the late night dinner parties and balls. At an almost dreamlike pace, this is a joy to take in when you are in the mood.
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