Whit Stillman’s wryly humorous indie—set “not so way back,” in line with a title card—facilities on a set of rich, New York Metropolis coeds (and one red-headed, Higher West Aspect outsider) throughout debutante ball season, over their winter break. What might simply be a send-up of the insular uptown wealthy, nevertheless, seems to be a really charming examine of id politics, teenage angst, strip poker, and love throughout the aisle on snow-dusted Park Avenue. (NB: For a considerably grittier follow-up, watch The Final Days of Disco—Stillman’s paean to the downtown membership scene and its hapless adherents—from 1998, starring Chloë Sevigny and Kate Beckinsale.)
The Prince of Tides (1991)
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It helps that in The Prince of Tides, tailored from Pat Conroy’s standard 1986 novel, the protagonist—Nick Nolte’s ornery, South Carolina–born Tom Wingo—arrives in New York decided to hate it. However as he falls in love along with his sister’s psychiatrist, Dr. Susan Lowenstein (Barbra Streisand, who additionally directs), so too does he fall for her loud, unfriendly metropolis. Very quickly, we see Wingo taking part in soccer within the park, strolling previous the Nook Bookstore on 93rd and Madison, bidding a fond farewell in bustling Grand Central Station, and slow-dancing within the Rainbow Room.
Crooklyn (1994)
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