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Metropolitan (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] (1990)

Chris Eigeman , Taylor Nichols , Whit Stillman  |  PG-13 |  Blu-ray
4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (77 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Chris Eigeman, Taylor Nichols
  • Directors: Whit Stillman
  • Format: Blu-ray, Color, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
  • Language: English
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region A/1 (Read more about DVD/Blu-ray formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
  • Studio: Criterion Collection
  • DVD Release Date: July 24, 2012
  • Run Time: 99 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (77 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B007USWCO2
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #48,937 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • Learn more about "Metropolitan (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]" on IMDb

Special Features

  • Restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised by director Whit Stillman
  • Audio commentary by Stillman, editor Christopher Tellefsen, and actors
  • Rare outtakes and alternate casting, with commentary by Stillman
  • Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Luc Sante

  • Editorial Reviews

    Amazon.com

    Whit Stillman (Barcelona, Last Days of Disco) enters Woody Allen territory in his talky yet articulate debut, creating a stinging exposé of self-important upper-class socialites and the head games they play, during their Christmas vacation in Manhattan. Witty and cynical, Stillman captures this odd subculture with sly observation and occasional sympathy--sort of a fascinating anthropological study of adolescent preppies. His young subjects, spoiled by their silver spoons, still lack life experience and, thus, emotional maturity or social grace. They pass time idly discussing Jane Austen (a tip of the hat to the master of social-manner comedies), Marxism, and other philosophies, dressing up for parties and undressing during strip poker, and gossiping about the romantic pairings for the upcoming debutante ball. Stillman smartly offers up Tom (Edward Clements), a middle-class loner who's slowly adopted into the clique, as an audience identification reference, making the events seem even stranger and funnier from his point of view. But Tom's far from perfect himself. As the innocent, easily manipulated Audrey (Carolyn Farina) begins to fall in love with him, Tom's boorish, hurtful responses make him appear as juvenile as the rest. Concurrently, it also jolts the group with a much-needed taste of reality, and the film with unpredictable poignancy, suggesting that at least one may grow from the experience. In his first opportunity as director, Stillman pulls wonderful performances from his unknown cast. Especially memorable are Christopher Eigeman as the sarcastically perceptive snob, Nick, and Taylor Nichols playing the philosophical, anxiety-ridden Charlie. --Dave McCoy

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    One of the great American independent films of the 1990s, the surprise hit Metropolitan by writer-director Whit Stillman (Damsels in Distress) is a sparkling comedic chronicle of a middle-class young man’s romantic misadventures in New York City’s debutante society. Stillman’s deft, literate dialogue and hilariously highbrow observations earned this first film an Academy Award nomination for best original screenplay. Alongside the wit and sophistication, though, lies a tender tale of adolescent anxiety.

    Customer Reviews

    This film is very dialog driven. Ed  |  16 reviewers made a similar statement
    Which makes watching this movie like reading a book. Bachelier  |  12 reviewers made a similar statement
    Most Helpful Customer Reviews
    55 of 63 people found the following review helpful
    4.0 out of 5 stars A Gatsby for the 90s June 15, 2000
    Format:VHS Tape
    This 1990 film by writer-director Whit Stillman is wonderfully refreshing and intelligent. It is sure to please audiences with a taste for the avant-garde or those just looking for something a little different.

    The story follows a group of upper-crust New York preppies during the Christmas debutante season. These are kids for whom black-tie balls at the Plaza Hotel and charming little soirees in Park Avenue apartments are serious matters. They are the UHB-"urban haute bourgeoisie"-a social circle carrying out traditions so anachronistic as to seem alien; traditions, in fact, which were outdated before these characters were even born.

    A middle class outsider and budding socialist named Tom Townsend (Edward Clements) happens into this elite group and briefly livens things up. He shocks them with his leftist rhetoric (he is a devotee of Fourier) and anti-deb outlook, but they nonetheless find themselves drawn to him. Tom finds a kindred spirit in the cynically fatalistic Nick (Christopher Eigeman). Nick is the most self-aware member of the inner circle and he provides comic relief with his devastating ongoing critique of their lives and behavior.

    Stillman's characters seem to have everything going for them. They are bright and educated and come from very wealthy families. We learn, though, that privilege is both their blessing and their curse. These children of status are destined to always remain in the shadow of their very successful parents. As one of them puts it, "We're doomed to failure." We come to realize that even though they are well-off in many ways, they still must struggle with the same insecurities and fears as the rest of us.

    The characters in "Metropolitan" are the kind of people that F. Scott Fitzgerald knew so well.... Read more ›

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    39 of 44 people found the following review helpful
    5.0 out of 5 stars All that's missing is Noel Coward. December 11, 2006
    Format:DVD
    This movie glistens like a piece of old Belleek. Whether in the subtle gold of an off the shoulder evening gown, or in the vast expanse of a deep, plush, ivory colored carpet, nearly every frame shimmers with champagne like iridescence.

    And gold is an apt visual metaphor, particularly when juxtaposed against the black satin of a tuxedo lapel or the wintry Manhattan night scape, for a world seemingly vanishing right before our eyes--a world too sleek, too soigné, too genteel to survive the steam roller of galloping blue-jeaned egalitarianism.

    That the denizens of this vanishing breed, as depicted in the film, are themselves, insecure late adolescents, make its departure all the more poignant.

    "This is probably the last Deb season..." one of them observes resignedly, "...because of the stock market, the economy, Everything..." Yes, everything...the huge smothering subject that hovers all around the plot itself and from which its characters are only temporarily insulated.

    In particular, the focus here is on a group of privileged Eastern Seaboard collegians enjoying the Christmas holidays in a series of Park Avenue, "after dance parties," in which they loll about and ruefully anticipate the disappearance of their youth, their success, and their kind.

    That they are one at the same time cerebral, immature, literate, prankish, frightened, polished, well educated but vulnerable and inexperienced, puts them well outside the troglodyte teens that inhabit the deconstructionist zoo in most post 1970 films, (with the exception of a unfortunate and mis-placed "strip poker" sequence which violates the picture's otherwise overall mood.
    ... Read more ›
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    17 of 19 people found the following review helpful
    5.0 out of 5 stars Audrey December 13, 2009
    By DTL
    Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
    One editorial review remarks "as the innocent, easily manipulated Audrey..". I seriously doubt it. You really must watch this picture several times before the parts fall into place. Take the opening scene when Tom 'accidentally' runs into Audrey's crowd. As the film later reveals Tom was given the ticket and has been sitting behind Audrey's table all night. He even went to the trouble to rent a tux for the occasion! He went to all this trouble in search of a woman by the name of Serena. The film also makes clear that he has never met anybody in the group. It's Audrey who's been looking him over. When Tom finally meets the woman, Serena, he learns that everybody writes to her and she never keeps any of them. She usually reads the very bad or the very good to her girl friends at the dorm but quickly assures him that his letters were always quite good. In fact her roommate liked them so much that she fell in love with him and kept them. Tom is horrified at this lack of privacy then stunned when he learns that Audrey was the roommate! Audrey wasn't an easily manipulated woman. One can only suspect that she manipulated Tom through the movie with the assistance of friends from time to time. Isn't it interesting that she's reading The Rector of Justin in the tanning scene? Or how she's dressed? Audrey deserves far more study in this film. Tom is far more related to Holly Martins of The Third Man. They are both struggling to learn what's happening around them. This film isn't for the one and done club. It needs more than one viewing to fully appreciate it. It was truly well done.
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    Most Recent Customer Reviews
    4.0 out of 5 stars Fun and engaging black comedy, but lacks emotion
    Metropolitan is an entertaining, but emotionally distant, film about young Manhattan socialites, who define themselves not as "preppys" but as the bourgeois youth. Read more
    Published 24 days ago by Steven Johnson
    3.0 out of 5 stars Mildly amusing
    Just watched this for the second time. First viewing was in the last century sometime.

    I'm impressed with the talent that went to this project; the acting, directing,... Read more
    Published 1 month ago by Harvey Griffin
    5.0 out of 5 stars A funny, thoughtful film with a serious side
    I am watching this film again. It certainly repays more than one viewing.

    To be honest, the appearance and character of Audrey Rouget (played by Carolyn Farina) is what... Read more
    Published 2 months ago by Julian O'Dea
    2.0 out of 5 stars good movie but sound not synched to images
    Large chunks of dialogue--for some reason, especially when the Taylor Nichols' character is speaking--do not match up with the images. Always a disconcerting experience. Read more
    Published 2 months ago by David Light
    1.0 out of 5 stars Too tedious to keep watching
    Although the beginning half had some tantalizing potential story lines, it was entirely too tedious to keep watching. Read more
    Published 3 months ago by Meriby Sweet
    4.0 out of 5 stars SEE IT.
    Witty, amusing, wonderful. Stillman's comedy is a somewhat a critique of bourgeois debutants, but he does not condem them nor is he pessimistic. Read more
    Published 4 months ago by laura
    4.0 out of 5 stars Unlikely but Likeable
    I wouldn't expect myself to like a low-key film about self-important, pseudo-sophisticated, largely upper-class and ultimately irrelevant young people, but I certainly did in this... Read more
    Published 7 months ago by J. R. Trtek
    5.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious and witty film about the self-absorbed and well-intended
    Whit Stillman's singular wit is on fine display in Metropolitan, his first and perhaps most famous film. Read more
    Published 9 months ago by Noelle Eiram
    4.0 out of 5 stars A character and dialog driven film about Park Avenue teens
    I'm pretty sure I'd only seen this movie once before, at the time of its release in 1990. I remember I was rather fond of it, but not sure of the details. Read more
    Published 14 months ago by M. Oleson
    1.0 out of 5 stars Dull
    Nothing happens. This is a dull movie, with dull dialogue, in a drab setting. The idea is good, but the film is not.
    Published 22 months ago by BDH
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