“Irresistibly funny!”
—The New York Times

“Indelibly sardonic”
—Vanity Fair

“After watching one of Whit Stillman’s movies I find myself wanting to be better—tiptoeing gingerly around tender feelings that I might otherwise stomp on, holding back on my drinking, and trying to be just a little more articulate.”
—Nick Pinkerton

A middle-class Princeton student finds himself adrift among the demimonde that is Manhattan during debutante season and pals around with a set of bright young things who are all too acutely aware of their status as “doomed and bourgeois.” God forbid, he falls in love with one. A sleeper hit for the then-unknown Whit Stillman, the script went on to garner an Academy-Award® nomination for Best Screenplay.