The Last Days of Disco
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| Directed by | Whit Stillman |
| Produced by | Whit Stillman |
| Written by | Whit Stillman |
| Starring | Chloë Sevigny Kate Beckinsale Mackenzie Astin Robert Sean Leonard Jennifer Beals Chris Eigeman |
| Release date(s) | 29 May 1998 (United States) |
| Running time | 113 min. |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | Barcelona |
The Last Days of Disco is a 1998 movie written and directed by Whit Stillman.
Tagline: History is made at night
The Last Days of Disco is the third film in Whit Stillman's trilogy that began with Metropolitan and continued with his acclaimed Barcelona.
In 2000 Whit Stillman published a part-novelization of the film: The Last Days of Disco, With Cocktails at Petrossian Afterwards.
As of May 2006, the DVD of The Last Days of Disco has been out of print for a couple of years (since 2000 or 2001), and is selling for $100 to $270 online.
The movie loosely depicts the "last days" at a disco palace, where drugs, sex and weirdness ran rampant. The story centers around a group of friends who frequent the disco and each other. All the characters are searching for something to make their lives more fulfilling. Some are searching for everlasting love and some are just wanting something different. As the disco is closed, they all wonder can disco ever really be dead?
The Last Days of Disco was loosely based on Stillman's travels and experiences in various nightclubs in Manhattan, and possibly at Studio 54. Much like Metropolitan, the film deals with a group of Ivy League and Amherst Manhattanites, recently graduated from college and law school, falling in and out of love in the urban environment of the very early 1980s disco scene.
[edit] Main cast
- Chloë Sevigny – Alice Kinnon
- Kate Beckinsale – Charlotte Pingress
- Mackenzie Astin – Jimmy Steinway
- Robert Sean Leonard – Tom Platt
- Jennifer Beals – Nina Moritz
- Chris Eigeman – Des McGrath
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