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Metropolitan(1990)
Status: Released
Date: 1990-08-03
70%
183 Votes
Time: 1h 39m
Finally... A film about the downwardly mobile.
Overview:
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.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United States of America
Budget: $225,000.00
Revenue: $2,900,000.00
ProductionCompanies:
Westerly Films
Allagash Films
Movie: Metropolitan
Top 10 Billed Cast
Chris Eigeman
Nick Smith
Taylor Nichols
Charlie Black
Carolyn Farina
Audrey Rouget
Isabel Gillies
Cynthia McLean
Will Kempe
Rick Von Sloneker
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