Metropolitan, a 1990 film directed by Whit Stillman, follows a group of young Manhattan socialites, known as the “rat pack,” who, through frequent dialogue at their elegant gatherings, contrast the traditional norms of their social class, perhaps known as “WASPs” or “the Eastern Establishment,” referred to in the film as the “Urban Haute Bourgeoisie,” oft…
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