The group leader, Nick Smith (Christopher Eigman), introduces himself to the ginger individual, Tom Townsend (Edward Clements), and insists on splitting the taxi with him, thereby aggressively inviting the newcomer to their event. Several members of the group known as the Sally Fowler Rat Pack hail a taxi cab, and mistakenly believe they have stolen it from an unsuspecting loner standing by the taxi. One New York Christmas, not long ago, a group of seven upper class young adults on Christmas vacation are on their way to a deb ball, and it tis the season for a considerable flurry of such high brow events. An odd-duck anachronism upon its initial release, time has only added a more subdued refinement and fascination to its subject matter, a depiction of a dying culture giving birth to an auteur whose own brand of strangeness may have recently shown itself to be as equally misdated in dealing with the modern youth in today’s world, where the upper class more freely walks amongst its inferior company. With this past Spring’s release of Damsels In Distress, his first new title in thirteen years, the Criterion Collection has refurbished two Whit Stillman titles this month, including his impressive independent darling from 1990, Metropolitan.

Metropolitan screenplay online