Six Degrees Of Separation Page #11

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
575 Views


"We called it making it better for our

children, protecting them. From what?"

841

00:
54:13,600 -- 00:54:17,036

"The truth is what we were

protecting those little people from."

842

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54:28,680 -- 00:54:30,238

What did you do next?

843

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54:30,360 -- 00:54:32,510

- Went to Harvard.

- To enlist our children.

844

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54:40,400 -- 00:54:42,789

Why do you keep insisting

it's someone we know?

845

00:
54:42,920 -- 00:54:45,354

It's no one from our high school!

846

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54:45,480 -- 00:54:49,758

It's someone you went to high school

with, since you go to different colleges.

847

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54:49,880 -- 00:54:53,873

- Doug, I appreciate your coming here.

- Dad, spare me.

848

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54:54,000 -- 00:54:56,355

He knows the details of our lives.

849

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54:56,480 -- 00:55:00,393

Who, in your high school, has become

homosexual or is deep into drugs?

850

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55:00,520 -- 00:55:02,715

- About 15 people.

- I don't want to know.

851

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55:02,840 -- 00:55:06,071

I find it really insulting that

you assume it has to be a guy.

852

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55:06,200 -- 00:55:08,919

He could have been

with a girl in high school.

853

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55:09,040 -- 00:55:11,429

That's your problem. You're so limited.

854

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55:11,560 -- 00:55:14,791

- That's why I'm going to climb mountains.

- You're not.

855

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55:14,920 -- 00:55:17,957

We have not invested all this money

in you to scale the face of K2.

856

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55:18,080 -- 00:55:20,674

Is that all I am? An investment?!

857

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55:20,800 -- 00:55:24,634

No. Track down everyone

in your class - male, female, whatever.

858

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55:24,760 -- 00:55:27,513

Not just homosexuals, drug addicts.

He could be a dealer.

859

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55:27,640 -- 00:55:31,349

Why do you look at me when you say

that? You think I'm an addict? A pusher?

860

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55:31,480 -- 00:55:33,072

I resent the accusations.

861

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55:33,200 -- 00:55:35,634

No one is accusing you of anything.

Now, sit down!

862

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55:35,760 -- 00:55:37,591

I don't wanna know!

863

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55:37,720 -- 00:55:40,234

Nobody is accusing anyone of anything.

864

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55:40,360 -- 00:55:44,751

I'm asking you to do a detective search.

Find out from your high-school class

865

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55:44,880 -- 00:55:48,316

if anyone has met a black kid

pretending to be a movie star's son.

866

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55:48,440 -- 00:55:50,908

He promised you parts in iCats?/i

867

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55:51,800 -- 00:55:54,951

It wasn't just that, it was fun!

868

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55:55,080 -- 00:55:59,995

You went to iCats./i You said it was an

all-time low in a lifetime of theatregoing.

869

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56:00,120 -- 00:56:03,510

- Film is a different medium.

- You said "Aeschylus didn't invent theatre

870

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56:03,640 -- 00:56:07,428

to have it end up a bunch of chorus kids

wondering who will go to kitty heaven."

871

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56:07,560 -- 00:56:10,472

- I don't remember saying that.

- That was iStarlight Express./i

872

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56:10,600 -- 00:56:14,195

Maybe he'll make a movie of that

and you can all be on roller skates.

873

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56:14,320 -- 00:56:16,276

- This is so humiliating!

- So pathetic!

874

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56:16,400 -- 00:56:18,914

- So racist.

- It's not racist!

875

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56:19,040 -- 00:56:20,917

Douglas!

876

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56:21,040 -- 00:56:25,477

- If I remember correctly, you loved iCats./i

- I hated it!

877

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56:25,960 -- 00:56:30,397

Here is a copy of your yearbook. Get the

phone numbers of everyone in your class.

878

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56:30,520 -- 00:56:33,512

How can I contact anyone from

high school? I've outgrown them.

879

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56:33,640 -- 00:56:36,279

How can you outgrow them?

You graduated last year.

880

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56:36,400 -- 00:56:39,392

Charge the calls to my phone.

881

00:
56:39,520 -- 00:56:41,511

- Never!

- This is the KGB!

882

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56:41,640 -- 00:56:45,713

You're always on the phone. Now I ask

you to make calls, you become reticent?

883

00:
56:45,840 -- 00:56:47,910

This is the entire McCarthy period.

884

00:
56:48,040 -- 00:56:52,511

- I just wanna get one thing straight.

- Finally we hear from the peanut gallery.

885

00:
56:52,640 -- 00:56:58,351

You gave him my pink shirt? You gave

a complete stranger my pink shirt?!

886

00:
56:58,480 -- 00:57:01,313

That shirt was

a Christmas present from you!

887

00:
57:01,440 -- 00:57:05,513

I treasured that shirt! I loved that shirt!

888

00:
57:05,640 -- 00:57:09,110

My collar has grown from weightlifting.

You saw my arms had grown,

889

00:
57:09,240 -- 00:57:13,199

you saw my neck had grown, and you

bought me that shirt for my new body!

890

00:
57:13,320 -- 00:57:18,189

I loved that shirt! My first shirt for my

new body, and you gave that shirt away?!

891

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57:18,320 -- 00:57:23,553

I can't believe you!

I hate this life, and I hate you!

892

00:
57:24,240 -- 00:57:26,708

- You never do anything for me!

- You block me.

893

00:
57:26,840 -- 00:57:29,718

I'm a pathetic extension

of your eighth-rate personality.

894

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57:29,840 -- 00:57:32,229

Social Darwinism

pushed beyond all limits!

895

00:
57:32,360 -- 00:57:36,273

- You gave him my pink shirt!

- You want me to be all you weren't!

896

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57:36,400 -- 00:57:39,153

You said "drugs" and looked at me?!

897

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57:44,920 -- 00:57:47,480

Oh, God. I know the feeling.

898

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57:47,600 -- 00:57:50,034

When the children turn.

899

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57:50,160 -- 00:57:55,359

- At least we inspired them to take action.

- They hunted through the yearbook.

900

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57:57,320 -- 00:57:59,151

- Oh, my God!

- Did you kiss him?

901

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57:59,280 -- 00:58:01,191

- N... Well, yeah.

- Oh, come on, Tess!

902

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58:01,320 -- 00:58:04,198

- What about that guy? Nah!

- No. No.

903

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58:04,320 -- 00:58:07,790

- No. No, no, no.

- Wait a minute. Trent Conway.

904

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58:07,920 -- 00:58:09,876

i(boys)/i Trent Conway.

905

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58:10,000 -- 00:58:13,310

- Look at those beady eyes.

- Trent Conway. He's at MIT.

906

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58:13,440 -- 00:58:15,749

So I went to MIT.

907

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58:15,880 -- 00:58:18,348

iHe was there in his computer room./i

908

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58:18,480 -- 00:58:22,109

iAnd I just pressed him/i

iand pressed him and pressed him./i

909

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58:22,240 -- 00:58:23,798

Yes. I knew Paul.

910

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58:24,320 -- 00:58:26,754

I had this strapped to me.

911

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58:26,880 -- 00:58:29,235

iWhat happened between you?/i

912

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58:29,360 -- 00:58:31,351

It was...

913

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58:31,600 -- 00:58:33,352

It was...

914

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58:34,080 -- 00:58:36,958

iIt was... a rainy night in Boston./i

915

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58:37,080 -- 00:58:39,230

iHe was in a doorway./i

916

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58:42,800 -- 00:58:44,313

iI met him./i

917

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58:44,440 -- 00:58:47,398

iAnd I took him back to my place./i

918

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58:53,160 -- 00:58:55,230

What's this?

919

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58:55,360 -- 00:58:58,909

- My address book.

- Damn!

920

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58:59,040 -- 00:59:04,353

All these names and addresses.

Tell me about these people.

921

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59:04,480 -- 00:59:08,234

This is where I wanted you to be.

Right here.

922

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59:09,720 -- 00:59:13,508

- Tell me about these people, man.

- I just wanna look at you.

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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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