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