"The Last Days of Disco" was loosely based on Stillman's experiences in various Manhattan nightclubs, including Studio 54. The film concerns Ivy League and Hampshire graduates falling in and out of love in the disco scene of Manhattan in the "very early 1980s". Chloë Sevigny and Kate Beckinsale play roommates with opposite personalities who frequent disco clubs together. "The Last Days of Disco" concludes a trilogy loosely based on Stillman's life and contains many references to the previous two films: a character considers a move to Spain to work for American ad agencies there after meeting with the "Barcelona" character of Ted Boynton, and "Metropolitan"'s heroine Audrey Rouget reappears briefly as a successful publisher, as do a few other characters from that film, as clubgoers. In 2000 Stillman published a novelization of the film, "The Last Days of Disco, with Cocktails at Petrossian Afterwards". The novelization won the French 2014 Prix Fitzgerald Award.