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Six Degrees of Separation (1993)
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Release Date:
8 December 1993 (USA)
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Tagline:
For Paul, every person is a new door to a new world.
Plot:
Flan and Ouisa Kittredge, rich NYC art dealers, are called on one night by a young man, Paul, who professes to be a friend of their kids' from Harvard...
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Awards:
Nominated for Oscar.
Another 1 nomination
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(14 articles)
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The Con, The Greed, The Homosexuality
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Stockard Channing | ... | Louisa ('Ouisa') Kittredge | |
| Will Smith | ... | Paul | |
| Donald Sutherland | ... | John Flanders ('Flan') Kittredge | |
| Ian McKellen | ... | Geoffrey Miller | |
| Mary Beth Hurt | ... | Kitty | |
| Bruce Davison | ... | Larkin | |
| Richard Masur | ... | Dr. Fine | |
| Anthony Michael Hall | ... | Trent Conway | |
| Heather Graham | ... | Elizabeth | |
| Eric Thal | ... | Rick | |
| Anthony Rapp | ... | Ben | |
| Oz Perkins | ... | Woodrow ('Woody') Kittredge (as Osgood Perkins) | |
| Catherine Kellner | ... | Talbot ('Tess') Kittredge | |
| J.J. Abrams | ... | Doug (as Jeffrey Abrams) | |
| Joe Pentangelo | ... | Police officer |
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Rated R for language and some sexuality.
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112 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Iceland:L |
Argentina:13 |
Australia:M |
Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) |
Canada:18A (Ontario) |
Canada:G (Québec) |
Germany:6 |
Spain:13 |
UK:15 |
USA:R
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Trivia:
Doug (J.J. Abrams), when looking through the yearbook with the other college children, exclaims "there's Greg Grunberg!, a reference to Abrams' childhood friend whom he often casts in his own projects.
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Goofs:
Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Paul says that Sidney Poitier was born on the 24th of February, 1927. He was actually born on February 20th.
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Quotes:
[first lines]
Flan: My God!
Ouisa: Is anything gone?
Flan: How can I look, I'm shaking!
Ouisa: I want to know if anything's gone!
Flan: Calm down.
Ouisa: We could have been killed! Oh, my God! The Kandinsky!
Flan: The Kandinsky!
Ouisa: It's gone, oh my God! Call the police!
Flan: Oh, no, there it is. Oh! The silver Victorian inkwell!
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Flan: My God!
Ouisa: Is anything gone?
Flan: How can I look, I'm shaking!
Ouisa: I want to know if anything's gone!
Flan: Calm down.
Ouisa: We could have been killed! Oh, my God! The Kandinsky!
Flan: The Kandinsky!
Ouisa: It's gone, oh my God! Call the police!
Flan: Oh, no, there it is. Oh! The silver Victorian inkwell!
[...]
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Movie Connections:
References "Great Performances: Cats" (1998)
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Soundtrack:
BLUE TANGO
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Every once and awhile, seemingly always at the oddest of times, I finally sit down to watch one of those films that everyone's heard of, but no one has seen. And every once and awhile I find a film that stirs my passion for storytelling.
Six Degrees of Separation will most likely never be understood, as the themes and allusions are often colored and complex. Even this writer doesn't begin to fully understand everything Guare is trying to say. It is however, quite disappointing, that in all of the internet chatter Google may churn out, the themes of homosexuality are ignored as if they have absolutely no bearing on the story. They are as vital a part of the story as is Louisa's breakdown scene, and Flan's realization that he does actually love Paul.
So, when you're at the video store, bored with the drivel Hollywood pukes out these days, pick this film up. Pay close attention to the cracks that begin to form in the characters, and run your fingers along those cracks to the end, and you may find yourself caught up in a story with a star shaped meaning. But be careful, it is the type of story that may have you looking inside yourself and who you're connected to.