Six Degrees Of Separation Page #15

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


penthouse. And I waited for hours.

1186

01:
16:09,880 -- 01:16:11,996

- Where's the money?

- Hi.

1187

01:
16:12,120 -- 01:16:16,511

Just let me explain.

Paul found some extra money of his own.

1188

01:
16:18,360 -- 01:16:22,069

iSo he took me to the Rainbow Room./i

1189

01:
16:22,200 -- 01:16:25,954

iHe would've treated you,/i

ionly you had to work./i

1190

01:
16:26,080 -- 01:16:29,993

iWe rented these tuxedos. Isn't it a gas?/i

1191

01:
16:30,120 -- 01:16:32,714

How did we get this table?

1192

01:
16:32,840 -- 01:16:35,070

I know the right names to drop.

1193

01:
16:35,600 -- 01:16:41,596

He's gonna give us the money back. And

then I'm takin' you to the Rainbow Room.

1194

01:
16:41,720 -- 01:16:44,314

I brought you matches.

1195

01:
16:50,040 -- 01:16:52,554

It's not that expensive for what you get.

1196

01:
16:52,680 -- 01:16:56,036

It's not a bargain, but it's worth it.

1197

01:
16:57,640 -- 01:17:00,154

Mm. Wonderful bouquet.

1198

01:
17:00,280 -- 01:17:01,429

"Bouquet"?

1199

01:
17:01,560 -- 01:17:05,473

The taste of wine. Always remember,

the wine from the even-numbered years

1200

01:
17:05,600 -- 01:17:08,876

is superior to the wine from

the odd-numbered years.

1201

01:
17:09,000 -- 01:17:12,879

- Cheers. Skol. Prosit.

- Mud in your eye.

1202

01:
17:13,000 -- 01:17:15,070

You're just about the greatest.

1203

01:
17:16,320 -- 01:17:20,313

- You wanna dance?

- Elizabeth hasn't seen anything like here.

1204

01:
17:20,440 -- 01:17:22,396

I wish she was...

1205

01:
17:23,360 -- 01:17:25,510

Who do we dance with?

1206

01:
17:29,840 -- 01:17:31,876

We're guys.

1207

01:
17:33,040 -- 01:17:36,396

Every moment in life

is a learning experience.

1208

01:
17:36,520 -- 01:17:38,750

Or what good is it? Right?

1209

01:
17:39,800 -- 01:17:41,836

- Right?

- Yes.

1210

01:
17:41,960 -- 01:17:44,110

Then let this bunch of jerks see class.

1211

01:
17:44,880 -- 01:17:47,838

I swear, nothin' like this

ever happened in Utah.

1212

01:
17:54,080 -- 01:17:58,153

Nothin' like that must have ever happened

there cos they asked us to leave.

1213

01:
18:09,960 -- 01:18:11,552

It was so funny!

1214

01:
18:11,680 -- 01:18:13,636

i(laughter)/i

1215

01:
18:14,760 -- 01:18:16,716

Around the park, sir!

1216

01:
18:17,800 -- 01:18:19,392

We don't have any money.

1217

01:
18:19,520 -- 01:18:24,310

Amigo, when will you learn? Money is

the one commodity you can always get.

1218

01:
18:24,920 -- 01:18:26,876

i(Paul howls)/i

1219

01:
18:28,800 -- 01:18:30,552

Hyah!

1220

01:
18:43,080 -- 01:18:46,993

I'm gonna have to explain to Elizabeth

about the money. She gets so nervous.

1221

01:
18:47,120 -- 01:18:50,078

Hey, Paul, come on. Stop that.

1222

01:
18:50,200 -- 01:18:53,158

I was wondering if I could f*** you.

1223

01:
18:54,960 -- 01:18:56,393

I don't do things like that.

1224

01:
18:59,800 -- 01:19:01,870

That's what makes it so nice.

1225

01:
19:02,000 -- 01:19:04,070

You don't.

1226

01:
19:04,680 -- 01:19:06,636

And he did.

1227

01:
19:10,040 -- 01:19:11,996

And it was fantastic.

1228

01:
19:20,280 -- 01:19:23,238

We came here for experience, right?

1229

01:
19:24,760 -- 01:19:26,159

We can use this, right?

1230

01:
19:26,280 -- 01:19:29,670

You're a fool!

Your father is right! You are a fool!

1231

01:
19:29,800 -- 01:19:34,749

We came here for experience. My father

is not right. I can't have him be right.

1232

01:
19:34,880 -- 01:19:36,632

- It's gon...

- Don't touch me.

1233

01:
19:41,240 -- 01:19:44,152

i(driver)/i Hey! Hey!

1234

01:
19:44,280 -- 01:19:46,396

Hey! Come back here!

1235

01:
19:46,520 -- 01:19:47,748

Hey!

1236

01:
19:47,880 -- 01:19:49,108

Argh!

1237

01:
19:49,640 -- 01:19:50,675

Paul!

1238

01:
19:50,920 -- 01:19:52,478

Paul!

1239

01:
20:07,080 -- 01:20:09,389

Look at me.

1240

01:
20:09,520 -- 01:20:10,999

Elizabeth.

1241

01:
20:11,120 -- 01:20:17,070

I didn't come here to do this, or to lose

that, or to be this, or to do this to you.

1242

01:
20:18,040 -- 01:20:19,996

Not to you.

1243

01:
20:21,360 -- 01:20:23,316

Look at me.

1244

01:
20:25,080 -- 01:20:29,471

I couldn't look at him. Spent the night

thinking about having no money.

1245

01:
20:29,960 -- 01:20:33,316

About Paul and his father.

So, this morning...

1246

01:
20:39,440 -- 01:20:40,998

Sir?

1247

01:
20:41,120 -- 01:20:44,749

Sir? I need to get up to see

some people named Kittredge.

1248

01:
20:44,880 -- 01:20:46,757

Are they expecting you?

1249

01:
20:46,880 -- 01:20:50,509

Kittredge has a black son he makes

live in the park who took money from me.

1250

01:
20:50,640 -- 01:20:53,996

- Mr Kittredge has what?!

- His son owes me money!

1251

01:
20:54,120 -- 01:20:57,476

You have to call

and write them a letter. Yes?

1252

01:
20:57,600 -- 01:21:02,196

"Quality of mercy is not strained."

Well, f*** you, quality of mercy!

1253

01:
21:02,320 -- 01:21:07,110

Hey. It's trouble with Mr Kittredge's Negro

son. I take care of it. Don't worry.

1254

01:
21:07,240 -- 01:21:12,394

All over the building that I had abandoned

some mistake of my past in Central Park.

1255

01:
21:12,520 -- 01:21:15,432

- But it's too fantastic.

- It was so embarrassing.

1256

01:
21:15,560 -- 01:21:18,711

- That's horrible.

- It wasn't so embarrassing.

1257

01:
21:18,840 -- 01:21:21,115

I bet Flan loves to be outraged.

1258

01:
21:21,240 -- 01:21:24,312

- I do not!

- You do too!

1259

01:
21:24,440 -- 01:21:29,514

- Flan loves getting into high dudgeon.

- And look at his cheeks turn all rosy.

1260

01:
21:29,640 -- 01:21:31,471

Dudgeon becomes him.

1261

01:
21:31,600 -- 01:21:33,636

To high dudgeon.

1262

01:
21:33,760 -- 01:21:37,196

Now... can we get down to business?

1263

01:
21:43,680 -- 01:21:48,196

Do we have a story for you? We were

at the roller disco two clients opened.

1264

01:
21:48,320 -- 01:21:51,118

I hadn't skated in

I hate to tell you how many years.

1265

01:
21:51,240 -- 01:21:56,109

We came outside giddy and reeling.

And you wouldn't believe what we saw.

1266

01:
22:00,800 -- 01:22:05,157

- The blood hadn't yet reached the gutter.

- It was oozing slowly towards the kerb.

1267

01:
22:05,280 -- 01:22:07,953

The body must have just

landed there in a clump.

1268

01:
22:09,160 -- 01:22:12,675

The boy had just jumped from above.

He could have landed on us.

1269

01:
22:14,760 -- 01:22:17,513

i(woman) We just missed it by minutes./i

1270

01:
22:20,440 -- 01:22:23,273

Rick! Oh, my God!

1271

01:
22:23,400 -- 01:22:25,356

Rick! Rick!

1272

01:
22:27,120 -- 01:22:30,715

- She'll press charges.

- I want Paul dead.

1273

01:
22:30,840 -- 01:22:34,879

Rick's dead.

You bet your life I'll press charges.

1274

01:
22:35,000 -- 01:22:37,912

We're very sorry.

Is there anything we can do to help?

1275

01:
22:38,040 -- 01:22:41,919

That Paul's a menace. We could

have been killed. Throats slashed.

1276

01:
22:42,040 -- 01:22:45,510

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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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