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Metropolitan

Metropolitan

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Status

Released

Release Date

Aug 3, 1990

Runtime

1h 39m

Genres

Comedy, Drama, Romance

User Score

69%

Original Title

Metropolitan

Production Companies

Westerly Films, Allagash Films

Director

Whit Stillman

Budget

$225,000

Revenue

$2,900,000

Description

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.