America might not run on Dunkin’, but Whit Stillman certainly does.

The writer-director is known for making talky films about neatly dressed, overly introspective neurotics — yes, he’s been compared to Woody Allen. He was born to a Kennedy assistant secretary of commerce and raised in upstate New York before getting his degree from Harvard.

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