Six Degrees Of Separation Page #2

Synopsis: New Yorkers Ouisa and Flan Kittredge are upper class private art dealers, pretentious but compassionate. Their prized possession is a double sided Kandinsky, one side that represents control, the other side chaos. They relay a story to their friends and acquaintances that over time becomes legendary. It is their encounter with a young black man who they had never met or heard of but who comes stumbling upon their front door one evening as they are courting an important investor, Geoffrey Miller, who could make them wealthy beyond what they could have dreamed. That black man is Paul Poitier, who has just arrived in the city, was just mugged outside their building and is sporting a minor knife wound to the abdomen. He is a friend of the Kittredge's children, who are attending Harvard, but more importantly is the son of actor/director Sidney Poitier. Tomorrow, Paul is meeting up with his father who is in town directing a movie of "Cats". Beyond the attraction of talking Paul into getting
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Director(s): Fred Schepisi
Production: MGM Home Entertainment
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.9
Metacritic:
72
Rotten Tomatoes:
88%
R
Year:
1993
112 min
530 Views


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We weren't sucking up. We like Geoffrey.

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i(applause)/i

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- Shouldn't we...?

- Not on your life.

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- It was hardly a lifeboat evening.

- Portentous.

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But when Geoffrey called

and asked us to take him for dinner,

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he made a pattern in life's tea leaves,

because who wants to go to banks?

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Why do you stay in South Africa?

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One has to stay there

to educate the black workers.

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We'll know we've been successful

when they kill us.

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- Planning the revolution to destroy you.

- Putting your life on the line.

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You don't think of it like that.

I wish you'd visit.

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Oh, but we'd visit you

and sit in your gorgeous house,

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planning visits to the townships,

demanding to see the poorest of the poor.

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"Are you sure they're the worst off?

I mean, we've come all this way."

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"We don't want to see people just mildly

victimised by apartheid. We want shock."

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It doesn't seem right sitting on

the East Side talking about revolution.

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Only small, murky cafs

for Pp le Moko here.

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No. No. La Pasionaria. We'll build

barricades and lean against them, singing.

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- And the people will follow.

- Follow, follow, follow. What is that song?

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It's our role in history,

and we offer ourselves up to it.

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It's your role in history, it's not our role.

The Fantasticks.

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ij&/i Follow, follow, follow, follow

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A role in history - to say that so easily.

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To lead the people. Like Lech Walesa

and the striking shipyard workers.

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Gorbachev urging on

the striking coal miners.

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The phrase "striking coal miners" -

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I always picture these very striking

coal miners modelling the fall fashion.

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- Why is there a statue of a husky?

- Another drink before we...?

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Where shall we?

God, the restaurants in New York.

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John Guare

John Guare (rhymes with "air"; born February 5, 1938) is an Irish American playwright. He is best known as the author of The House of Blue Leaves, Six Degrees of Separation, and Landscape of the Body. His style, which mixes comic invention with an acute sense of the failure of human relations and aspirations, is at once cruel and deeply compassionate. In his foreword to a collection of Guare's plays, film director Louis Malle writes: Guare practices a humor that is synonymous with lucidity, exploding genre and clichés, taking us to the core of human suffering: the awareness of corruption in our own bodies, death circling in. We try to fight it all by creating various mythologies, and it is Guare's peculiar aptitude for exposing these grandiose lies of ours that makes his work so magical. more…

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