Metropolitan

Set in Manhattan during the Christmas season, Metropolitan offers a dryly comic look at a fading social world. The film follows a small circle of Park Avenue debutantes who spend their evenings debating love, class, and the quiet erosion of their privilege. Their routine is disrupted by Tom Townsend, a West Side outsider with socialist leanings who enters their orbit out of practical necessity during an ongoing escort shortage. As Tom becomes absorbed into the group, particularly through his connection with the self-assured Nick Smith and the reserved Audrey Rouget, the film unfolds as a sharp, dialogue-driven portrait of a class nearing obsolescence. Often compared to the social observations of “This Side of Paradise, Metropolitan” captures a moment already slipping away.