The Last Days of Disco

1998
R
1h 53m

IMDb RATING

6.7/10

15K

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Kate Beckinsale and Chloë Sevigny in The Last Days of Disco (1998)

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Dark Comedy Comedy Drama Music Romance

Story of two female Manhattan book editors fresh out of college, both finding love and themselves while frequenting the local disco.Story of two female Manhattan book editors fresh out of college, both finding love and themselves while frequenting the local disco.Story of two female Manhattan book editors fresh out of college, both finding love and themselves while frequenting the local disco.

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IMDb RATING

6.7/10

15K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 win & 1 nomination total

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The Last Days of Disco

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The Last Days of Disco: The Criterion Collection - Blu-Ray

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The Last Days of Disco: The Criterion Collection - Blu-Ray

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The Last Days of Disco: Criterion Collection

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Trivia
The disco seen in the movie was actually an old picture theater being renovated in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Goofs
Early in the movie, boxes of glassware in the back of the club have large modern barcodes. An hour into the movie the boxes are shown again, with the barcodes taped over.

Quotes
Josh Neff: Disco will never be over. It will always live in our minds and hearts. Something like this, that was this big, and this important, and this great, will never die. Oh, for a few years - maybe many years - it'll be considered passé and ridiculous. It will be misrepresented and caricatured and sneered at, or - worse - completely ignored. People will laugh about John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, white polyester suits and platform shoes and people going like *this*
[strikes disco pose]
Josh Neff: , but we had nothing to do with those things and still loved disco. Those who didn't understand will never understand: disco was much more, and much better, than all that. Disco was too great, and too much fun, to be gone forever! It's got to come back someday. I just hope it will be in our own lifetimes.
[Des, Charlotte, Dan, and Van stare at Josh like he's crazy]
Josh Neff: ...Sorry, I've got a job interview this afternoon and I was just trying to get revved up, but... most of what I said, I, um... believe.

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert: The Truman Show/The Last Days of Disco/A Perfect Murder/The Opposite of Sex/Hope Floats (1998)

Soundtracks
Doctor's Orders
Written by Geoff Stephens, Roger Greenaway, Roger Cook
Performed by Carol Douglas
Courtesy of Unidisc Music, Inc.
By Arrangement with Celebrity Licensing Inc.

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Featured review

Witty Movie about Wasp-y relationships in early 1980s

Well, before you see this, ask yourself if you either: a) want to engorge yourself with lengthy witty banter, or b) see a Wasp-y version of the weaving of people in and out of relationships like Seinfeld or Woody Allen but with a bigger cast? If your answer is yes, this is your movie. If not, not.

This movie is FAR more like Stillman's others (Metropolitan and Barcelona) than like anything you've seen about disco - which is simply the background. I was surprised that these yuppie characters were so freely admitted to Studio 54 (the set of the film), but perhaps it indicates disco's waning popularity by the early 1980s.

I enjoyed it very much - but it's not everyone's cup of tea.