Metropolitan [videorecording] / Westerly Films in association with Allagash Films presents ; written, produced and directed by Whit Stillman.

Other Titles: Metropolitan (Motion picture : 1990).

Edition: Director approved special ed. ; widescreen format.

Publisher: [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2006]

ISBN: 1559409681

Description: 1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 double gate fold pamphlet (1 v. : 18 cm.)

Series: Criterion collection ; 326

Subject: Upper class New York (State) New York Drama.
Man-woman relationships Drama.
Social conflict New York (State) New York Drama.
Interpersonal relations Drama.
Friendship Drama.
Comedy films.
Feature films. lcgft
Comedy films. lcgft
Fiction films. lcgft
Video recordings for the hearing impaired. lcgft

Credits: Cinematography by John Thomas ; edited by Christopher Tellefsen ; line producer, Brian Greenbaum ; co-producer, Peter Wentworth ; music by Mark Suozzo with original music by Tom Judson and additional music by Jock Davis, Billy Johns & Joe B. Warner ; costume design, Mary Jane Forl ; sound, Antonio Arroyo ; sound editor, Jay Kessel.

Performers: Carolyn Farina, Edward Clements, Taylor Nichols, Christopher Eigeman, Alison Parisi, Dylan Hundley, Isabel Gillies, Bryan Leder, Will Kempe, Elizabeth Thompson.

Notes: Soundtrack in English with optional subtitles in English for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1990.
Essay "After the ball" by Luc Sante appears in pamphlet.
Special features: Commentary with writer, director, Whit Stillman, editor Christopher Tellefsen, and actors Christopher Eigeman and Taylor Nichols; Outtakes; Memorial to Brian Greenbaum, line producer; Alternate casting with commentary by Stillman; Original theatrical trailer.

Summary: When a group of young sophisticated high society friends in New York take in a new member with more humble origins, they begin to learn what life is like outside their sheltered world.