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MPAA Rating: PG13
Director: Whit Stillman
Genres: Comedy Drama
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The debut film from writer-director Whit_Stillman etches a sophisticated comic portrait of New York debutante society at the twilight of the 1980s. Set during the Christmas season, the film is told from the vantage point of Tom Townsend (Edward_Clements), a self-professed proletarian radical who stumbles into the social sphere of a group of well-off Upper East Side twentysomethings calling themselves the SFRP (or Sally Fowler Rat Pack, named in honor of a frequent party hostess). The group includes Nick (Christopher_Eigeman), an acidic misanthrope; sweet-natured Jane Austen acolyte Audrey (Carolyn_Farina); Charlie (Taylor_Nichols), a tongue-tied bumbler secretly in love with Audrey; and femme fatale Cynthia (Isabel_Gillies). Quickly, Tom, who comes from much more humble beginnings, finds himself caught in the middle of the group. Audrey even develops a crush on him, but Tom is still reeling from a broken relationship with renowned man-eater Serena (Elizabeth_Thompson), a peripheral member of the SFRP. It all leads to a romantic climax at the Southampton vacation home of Nick's womanizing arch-enemy Rick von Sloneker (Will_Kempe). Jason Ankeny, Rovi
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