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Metropolitan 98 minutes, USA (1990), 12A
Average user rating (5 / 2 votes)

Set during debutante week, Whit Stillman's 1990 debut tells the story of a group of Manhattan preppies and, in particular, newcomer Tom Townsend who is forced to hide from his peers the fact that he comes from the wrong side of town

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Metropolitan: Rather like its well-bred protagonists, in the pantheon of classic American independent movies Whit Stillman's Metropolitan feels entirely anachronistic. Next to the influential indie films of the 1990s - Darren Aronofsky's Pi, Kevin Smith's Clerks or Steven Soderbergh's Sex, Lies, And Videotape - Stillman's work feels like it was made in the golden age of Hollywood...
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