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Released
1990 · FILM

Metropolitan

A privileged group of Manhattan socialites finds their sheltered world challenged when a sharp-witted outsider joins their late-night philosophical debates and romantic entanglements.

“Finally... A film about the downwardly mobile.”

Directed by
Whit Stillman
Written by
Whit Stillman
Runtime
99 min
ComedyDramaRomance

Synopsis

A radical student is adopted by a group of young New Yorkers, serving as a catalyst to alter his and their lives. Gathering in a Manhattan apartment, the group of friends meets to discuss social mobility, Fourier's socialism, and play bridge within their cocoon of upper-class society—until they are joined by a man with a critical view of their way of life.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 15

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Christopher TellefsenShot by John ThomasScored by Tom Judson

Box Office

1990 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 13× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$2.9M

Budget$225K
Worldwide gross$2.9M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $92K — 3% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $92K — 3% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1 theaters

Re-release box office

20153 theaters
$34K($48K today)

Domestic gross earned in theatrical re-release, by year · adjusted for inflation

Also known as

  • Metropolitan - Verdammt, bourgeois, verliebtde

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