Six Degrees Of Separation Page #17

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
582 Views


And he just left me alone.

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iBut you - you and your husband -/i

iwe all stayed together./i

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- What did you want from us?

- Everlasting friendship.

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Nobody has that.

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- iYou do./i

- What do you think we are?

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Oh. You're going to tell me secrets?

You're not what you appear to be?

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You have no secrets. Trent Conway told

me everything your kids have told him.

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What did our kids tell him about us?

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I don't tell that. Save that for blackmail.

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- Perhaps I'd better hang up.

- No!

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I went to a museum.

I like Toulouse-Lautrec.

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iAs well you should./i

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I read the Andy Warhol diaries.

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I see you're becoming an aesthete.

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- Are you laughing at me?

- No. I read them too.

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iI've read " The Agony and the Ecstasy"/i

iby Irving Stone, about Michelangelo./i

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Oh, well, you're ahead of me there.

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Have you seen the Sistine Chapel?

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Oh, yes.

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I went right to the top in a rickety old

elevator and watched the men clean it.

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You've been to the top

of the Sistine Chapel?

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Stood right under the hand of God

touching the hand of man.

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iBatti! Batti!/i

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Oh!

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One of the workmen said

"Hit it! Hit it! It's only a fresco."

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Hit!

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So I did. I slapped God's hand.

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You... you slapped God's hand?

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Do you know what they clean it with?

All this modern technology.

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- Q-Tips and water.

- iNo!/i

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Clean away the years of soot,

grime, paint-overs.

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Q-Tips and water, changing

the history of Western art. Vivid colour.

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- Take me to see it.

- Take you to see it?

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- They think you murdered someone.

- Can you give me a hand with these?

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- i(whispers)/i Paul.

- Paul?

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- I'll call that detective.

- i(phone rings)/i

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Who's that? Hello?

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- Dad! We were cut off.

- Oh, Tess, hi.

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- iI'm getting married!/i

- Call back.

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I'm getting married

and going to Afghanistan!

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- I can't talk about this...

- iI am gonna ruin my life and get married./i

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Throw away everything you want me

to be. It's the only way to hurt you!

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- i(hangs up)/i

- Jesus.

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- i(phone rings)/i

- Yeah?

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- I have that kid on the line.

- Find out where he is.

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Find out where he is.

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Um, look, why don't you come here?

Where are you?

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You'll have the cops waiting.

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- Tell him he has to trust us.

- You have to trust us!

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- Why?

- Cos we like you!

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- We like him? Where is he?

- Who's there?

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It's, um...

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- It's Flan!

- Oh, God.

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Are you in tonight?

I could come and make a feast for you.

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- No, we're going out tonight.

- Are you crazy?!

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Tell a crook we're going out,

the house is empty?

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- Where are you going?

- Sotheby's.

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- And the key is under the mat.

- Hi! Can I come to Sotheby's?

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- Shoot! I've lost the detective.

- Paul says hi.

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- Hi.

- Sotheby's.

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- Wonderful. I'll come.

- No. You can't.

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- iWhy? I was helpful last time./i

- You were helpful about the Czanne.

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- iReally? You know.../i

- You impressed Geoffrey. Where are you?

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I was thinking maybe that's what

I should do, is what you do, in art,

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but making money out of art, meeting

people, and not working in an office.

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You're just seeing the glamorous side.

There's a whole grotty side that...

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I could easily learn the grotty.

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You have to have art history,

language, economics.

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I'm fast. I could do it.

Do your kids want to?

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It's not that. It's not a profession

you hand down from gen...

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What am I doing talking

career counselling to you?!

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You embarrassed me. You stole money.

There's a warrant for your arrest.

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- Goddammit!

- No, don't!

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- I can't believe he sucked me in again.

- You made him hang up.

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- iI'm here./i

- You are?

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Who are you? What's your real name?

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If you let me stay with you, I'll tell you.

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That night was

the happiest night I ever had.

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That was the happiest night he ever had.

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Oh, please. I'm not a bullshitter,

but never bullshit a bullshitter.

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Now, get rid of him, Ouisa.

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You look great, dear. Tonight's

big business. Get him off the phone.

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Why?

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You let me use all the parts

of myself that night.

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That was magical, that Salinger stuff.

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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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