Six Degrees Of Separation Page #18

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


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Graduation speech

at Groton two years ago.

1444

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Your cooking?

1445

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Other people's recipes.

1446

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Did you see Donald Barthelme's obituary?

1447

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He said that collage was

the art form of the 20th century.

1448

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Everything is somebody else's.

1449

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Not your children. Not your life.

1450

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No.

1451

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You got me there. That is mine.

That is nobody else's.

1452

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iYou don't sound happy./i

1453

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There is so much you don't know.

1454

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You are so smart.

1455

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- And so stupid.

- Don't you ever say I'm stupid!

1456

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Have some flexibility. You're stupid

not to realise what you could be.

1457

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- What could I be?

- So much.

1458

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- iWith you behind me./i

- You liked that night?

1459

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I've thought since

that you were laughing at us.

1460

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No!

1461

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iYou picked up that awful thing/i

ito show us your contempt./i

1462

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I was so happy I wanted to add sex to it.

Don't you do that?

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No.

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- iI'll tell you my name./i

- Please.

1465

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It's Paul Poitier-Kittredge.

1466

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iIt's a hyphenated name./i

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Paul...

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listen to me.

1469

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You need help. Go to the police. You'll be

over it all the sooner. You can start...

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- Start what?

- iYour life./i

1471

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Will you help me?

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I will help you. But first, you have

to go to the police, you have to go to jail.

1473

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And will you send me books and Polaroids

of you and cassettes and letters?

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- iYes./i

- Will you visit me?

1475

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I will visit you.

1476

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iAnd wear your best clothes/i

iand knock 'em dead./i

1477

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I'll knock 'em dead. You have to be

careful in prison. Use condoms.

1478

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I won't have sex in prison.

I only have sex when I'm happy.

1479

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- Go to the police.

- Will you take me?

1480

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iI'll give you the name/i

iof the detective to see./i

1481

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I'll be treated with care if you come. If they

don't know you're special, they kill you.

1482

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I don't think they kill you.

1483

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Mrs Louisa Kittredge, I am black.

1484

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I... will deliver you to them,

1485

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with kindness and affection.

1486

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I'll plead guilty and go to prison

and serve a few months.

1487

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- A few months, tops.

- iAnd when I get out, I'll work for you./i

1488

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- No, we'll work all that out.

- No, no, no, no. I want to know now.

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- You'll work for us.

- Learn the trade, not just the grotty part.

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- Top to bottom.

- And live with you.

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- iNo./i

- Why? Your kids are away.

1492

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- You should have your own place.

- iWill you help me find a place?/i

1493

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We'll help you find a place.

1494

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- I have no furniture.

- iWe'll help you out./i

1495

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I made a list of things I liked at

the museum. Philadelphia Chippendale.

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iBelieve it or not, we have two/i

iPhiladelphia Chippendale chairs./i

1497

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I'd rather have one nice piece

than a room full of junk.

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i(laughs)/i

1499

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Quality always.

1500

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You'll have all that.

Philadelphia Chippendale!

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And all I have to do is go to the police.

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Make it all history.

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Put it behind you.

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- iTonight./i

- Oh. No, it can't be tonight.

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I'll take you tomorrow. I have to have

drinks before the auction tonight.

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- Japanese?

- iGermans./i

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You are just like my father.

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- Which father?

- Sidney!

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Paul...

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he's not your father.

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iAnd Flanders.../i

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is not your father.

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Ouisa, for Christ's sakes!

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Are you still on the phone?

We have drinks with the Japanese...

1515

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Is it still that kid? Get him out of our lives!

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Get him off the phone or I'll rip

the f***ing line out of the wall!

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Paul?

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I made a mistake. It is not the Germans.

We'll come and get you. Where are you?

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We'll take you to the police.

They'll treat you with dignity.

1520

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Um...

1521

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I'm at the corner of 6th Avenue

and 4th Street.

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But I'll meet you at

the Waverly movie theatre.

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- We'll be there in half an hour.

- I'll give you 15 minutes' grace time.

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We'll be there.

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iPaul.../i

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We love you.

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iOuisa./i

1528

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I love you, Ouisa Kittredge.

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iHey./i

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Bring a pink shirt?

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We'll have a wonderful life.

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We can skip the schmoozing, take the boy

to the police, and be at Sotheby's by nine.

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Sure.

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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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