The Last Days of Disco

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The Last Days of Disco

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.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

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.