Six Degrees Of Separation Page #16

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


He wasn't going to kill us.

We haven't seen him since that night.

1277

01:
22:45,640 -- 01:22:49,633

- Find him. We might have a case.

- Find him?

1278

01:
22:49,760 -- 01:22:53,275

- How do we find him?

- We could tell the papers. Call iThe Times./i

1279

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22:53,400 -- 01:22:57,313

- Ooh, let me. I have friends at iThe Times./i

- I don't wanna know.

1280

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22:57,440 -- 01:22:59,510

- They'll publish it.

- Someone will see it.

1281

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22:59,640 -- 01:23:01,437

- And turn him in.

- We'll find him.

1282

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Six degrees.

1283

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"Who says New Yorkers

don't have a heart?"

1284

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"Smart, sophisticated, tough New Yorkers,

such as the J Flanders Kittredges,

1285

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who opened their homes and pocketbooks

to a young man, learned yesterday

1286

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23:13,680 -- 01:23:18,549

they had been boondoggled by

a confidence man now wanted by police."

1287

01:
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- Did you see the piece in iThe Times?/i

- We were in Squaw Valley.

1288

01:
23:21,720 -- 01:23:26,430

We came off very well.

I forgot to mention your foundation.

1289

01:
23:26,560 -- 01:23:30,519

You could wallpaper the Empire State

Building with the copies Flan had made.

1290

01:
23:30,640 -- 01:23:33,154

- Come to dinner with us after.

- Can't.

1291

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23:33,280 -- 01:23:34,190

- Work.

- Auction.

1292

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- Matisse.

- Ooh!

1293

01:
23:35,640 -- 01:23:39,633

Oh, no. Matisse on an off day. But our

people are prepared to go to well over...

1294

01:
23:39,760 -- 01:23:42,957

- Don't tell all the family secrets.

- Well over $12,000,000!

1295

01:
23:43,080 -- 01:23:45,548

- Out of which you will keep?

- Not much in these days.

1296

01:
23:45,680 -- 01:23:49,195

- Oh, boy. Bring back the '80s.

- Uh-huh.

1297

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23:50,120 -- 01:23:54,671

We'll have to give most of it away. But

it gives us credibility in this new market.

1298

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It's all outta whack.

Everything's up, everything's down.

1299

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24:01,000 -- 01:24:03,514

- Did you ever hear from Poitier's son?

- No.

1300

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24:03,640 -- 01:24:05,995

Did you ever hear from the boy?

1301

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- Oh, we're here to honour your guest.

- But I keep hearing about this story.

1302

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I heard about it last week in Southampton.

1303

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- It's amazing.

- No, really. To get the UN to finally...

1304

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- She can't save the world every day.

- i(all laugh)/i

1305

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This is my supper,

and I command you to sing.

1306

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- This is lunch.

- What happened?

1307

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There is one last chapter,

which happened the other night.

1308

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Ouisa, may I?

1309

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ij&/i The Matisse will be mine

for an hour or so

1310

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ij&/i Then, regrettably, it has to go

1311

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- i(Tess) So, what are you wearing?/i

- I'm totally dolled up. The blue satin.

1312

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iDarling, I have to tell you./i

iA sign I saw today -/i

1313

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"Cruelty-free cosmetics." A store

was selling cruelty-free cosmetics.

1314

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iThat is a beautiful thing./i

1315

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Do you realise the agony companies put

rabbits through just to test eye shadow?

1316

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25:05,480 -- 01:25:07,471

Oh, darling, I know that.

1317

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I was referring to the phrase -

"cruelty-free cosmetics".

1318

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Should eliminate

all traces of time, cellulite...

1319

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Mother, I'm getting married.

1320

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25:19,200 -- 01:25:21,031

You were going to Afghanistan.

1321

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25:21,160 -- 01:25:24,436

I'm going to get married,

and then I'm going to Afghanistan.

1322

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One country at a time.

You're not getting married.

1323

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iImmediately so negative./i

1324

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I know everyone you know,

and you're not marrying any of them.

1325

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The arrogance that you assume

you know everyone I know!

1326

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The way that you say that!

"I know everyone you know."

1327

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Unless you met them in the last two days.

1328

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- i(phone rings)/i

- Wait. Hold on.

1329

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Nobody ever calls on

that number. Mother!

1330

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Hello?

1331

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i(Paul) Hello?/i

1332

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Paul?

1333

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iI saw the story in the paper./i

1334

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I didn't know he killed himself.

He gave me that money. I didn't steal it.

1335

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I'll put you on hold. I'm talking to my child.

1336

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Put me on hold and you'll

never hear from me again.

1337

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Yes...

1338

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- Mother, can I t...?

- i(dialling tone)/i

1339

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You have to turn yourself in.

The boy committed suicide.

1340

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iThe girl is pressing charges./i

iYou stole that money./i

1341

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iTurn yourself in. Make it easy on yourself./i

iThey're gonna get you./i

1342

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Learn when you're trapped.

You have such promise. You need help.

1343

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- Would you help me?

- iWhat do you want me to do?/i

1344

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Stay with you.

1345

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- That is impossible!

- iWhy?/i

1346

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My husband feels you betrayed him.

1347

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- Do you?

- iYou're a lunatic!/i

1348

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Picking up that dreck off the street.

Are you suicidal? Do you have AIDS?

1349

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iAre you infected?/i

1350

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I don't have it. It's a miracle, but I don't.

1351

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Do you feel I betrayed you? If you do,

I will hang up and never bother you again.

1352

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Where have you been?

1353

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Travelling.

1354

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Are you in trouble? I mean, more trouble.

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iNo. I only visited you./i

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I didn't like the first people so much.

They just went out and left me alone.

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I didn't like the doctor.

He was too eager to please.

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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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