Alice (Chloe Sevigny) and Charlotte (Kate Beckinsale) are roommates and poorly paid workers at a publishing house. Charlotte, haughty and with a little bit too much carnal knowledge, declares this a new era and proceeds to give the more stable and pure Alice advice that leads to get her getting dumped. Among their paramours are Harvard boys Des (Chris Eigeman), a snearing nightclub worker; Josh (Matt Keeslar), a manic-depressive assistant district attorney, who can wax poetic about The Lady and the Tramp; and Jimmy (Mackenzie Astin), an ad man scorned because he is an ad man.

As a character says toward the end of the movie, “To thine own self be true,” Stillman is true to a pattern he established in the first two films. The Last Days of Disco plays as if it could end at any time or go on forever (and sometimes it feels like it might). What happens is not as important as the characters who are drawn and what they say. There are the good guys and the bad guys. Sevigny is beguiling as the former, and as the latter, the hilarious Eigeman has made being a creep an art form in this, his third appearance in the trilogy. In this turn, he dumps women and garners sympathy from them at the same time by telling them he’s gay. He says, “Wednesday was gay day,” and explains that his sexuality occurred to him while watching Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom.