Six Degrees Of Separation

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

Actors: Stockard Channing, Will Smith, Donald Sutherland, Ian McKellen

Production: MGM Home Entertainment

Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 5 nominations.


IMDB:: 6.9
Metacritic:: 72
Rotten Tomatoes:: 88%

Six Degrees Of Separation Movie Quotes »

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: R
Year:: 1993
: 112 min
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- My God!
- Is anything gone?
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- How can I look? I'm shaking.
- I wanna know if anything's gone.
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- Calm down.
- We could've been killed. The Kandinsky!
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- The Kandinsky!
- It's gone! Oh, my God! Call the police!
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There it is. The silver Victorian inkwell.
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- How can you think about things?!
- There's the inkwell.
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- We could have been murdered!
- Silver jaguar.
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Why?
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- Slashed. Throats slashed.
- There's the Degas.
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Go to bed at night happy and then
murdered. Would we have woken up?
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We're alive.
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- i(dog yelps)/i
- i(both scream)/i
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The dog, the dog, the dog. Oh, God.
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- Oh, my God!
- What is it?
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The wedding.
We have to go to the wedding.
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- I'm in no mood to go.
- We have to.
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- They're your friends.
- I beg to differ...
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- Hello?!
- What?
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You don't call out "hello" unless the...
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I think we could tell
if someone else was here.
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- We didn't all night.
- i(phone rings)/i
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Oh, God. No, don't pick that up! It's him!
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Hello.
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Hello.
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Hello.
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Hello.
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Hello.
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Bride's side or groom's side?
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Either side. I can't even
remember how we met them.
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Why are we here?
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Let's not make a scene.
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The most terrifying words in the world -
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- "Now I lay me down to sleep..." Think.
- "Pray the Lord my soul to keep."
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But then the nightmare part.
"If I should die before I wake..."
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"Pray the Lord my soul to take."
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- Are you OK?
- We were nearly murdered.
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- Throats slashed.
- It was awful.
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- You could've been killed?
- Only hours ago.
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- But we're here.
- We wouldn't miss it.
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Happy the bride the sun shines on.
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i(j& " Here Comes the Bride")/i
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Chaos, control. Chaos, control.
You like? You like?
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- I'll have a gin and tonic, please.
- Tell them.
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We were having
a wonderful evening last night.
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A friend we hadn't seen in years
came by for dinner.
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- Geoffrey Miller. From South Africa.
- Don't say that so portentously.
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- Geoffrey from Serth Efrica.
- Well, don't be gaga!
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- Scotch, please.
- Just something large.
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Geoffrey was in New York
briefly on business,
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and he asked us to ask him for dinner.
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Listen.
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What's wrong?
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It always amazes me
when New York is so quiet.
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Oh! i(laughs)/i
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With the kids away,
we get used to less noise.
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- Geoffrey is King-Midas rich. Gold mines.
- 70,000 workers in one gold mine alone.
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But he's short of cash.
His government won't let its people...
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- Its white people.
- ..take out any money.
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It's like taking in a war baby.
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His call was like a bolt from the blue, as
I had a deal coming up and was short by...
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- Two million.
- The figure is superfluous.
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I hate when you use
the word "superfluous".
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I mean, he needed two million.
We hadn't seen Geoffrey in a long time.
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While he might not have the price
of dinner, he might have $2,000,000.
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It's the awful thing about
having truly rich friends.
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Let's face it, the money does
get in the way. I'll take that one.
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Having a rich friend is like drowning
and he makes lifeboats.
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Only your friend gets very touchy if you
say one word - lifeboat. That is two words.
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We were afraid our friend might say we
were loving him because of his lifeboat.
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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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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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