Six Degrees Of Separation Page #2

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


No. No. La Pasionaria. We'll build

barricades and lean against them, singing.

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- And the people will follow.

- Follow, follow, follow. What is that song?

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It's our role in history,

and we offer ourselves up to it.

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It's your role in history, it's not our role.

The Fantasticks.

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ij&/i Follow, follow, follow, follow

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A role in history - to say that so easily.

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To lead the people. Like Lech Walesa

and the striking shipyard workers.

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Gorbachev urging on

the striking coal miners.

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The phrase "striking coal miners" -

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I always picture these very striking

coal miners modelling the fall fashion.

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- Why is there a statue of a husky?

- Another drink before we...?

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Where shall we?

God, the restaurants in New York.

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It's like Florence in the 16th century -

genius on every corner.

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- There's good Szechwan. Hunan.

- i(woman laughs)/i

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The sign painter screwed up the sign.

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Instead of painting "The Hunan Wok",

he painted "The Human Wok".

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- We sent it to iThe Times./i

- They have a joke page, and...

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They send you champagne.

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We weren't auditioning, but all I could

think was "$2,000,000. $2,000,000".

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Like when people say "Don't think

about elephants", it's all you think.

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$2,000,000. $2,000,000.

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i(buzzer)/i

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Whatever you do,

don't think about elephants.

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- Elephants?

- Ouisa is a Dada manifesto.

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About the Czanne.

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Unless we're careful,

it'll be sold and never seen again.

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Mid period. Landscape

of a dark green forest.

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In the far distance you see the sunlight.

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One of his first uses of a pale colour being

forced to carry the weight of the picture.

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An experiment that would

pay off in the apples.

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Burst of colour has to carry so much.

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Japanese don't like anything

about it except it's a Czanne.

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I... I'm so sorry to bother you, but...

I've been hurt, and I've lost everything.

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I didn't know where to go. Your children.

I'm a friend of your children.

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- He mentioned our kids' names.

- And their school.

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- Harvard. You can say Harvard.

- I don't want to get into libel.

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I was mugged... out there in Central Park.

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By the statue of that Alaskan husky.

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I was trying to figure out

why there was a statue of a dog

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who saved lives in the Yukon

in the middle of Central Park.

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- When I was trying to puzzle it out...

- Are you OK?

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They took my money and my briefcase.

I said "My thesis..."

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- His shirt's bleeding.

- The shirt isn't bleeding. He's bleeding.

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Oh.

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Sorry. I get this way around blood.

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No! My God, not on the rug, please.

Eddie, get the doctor.

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No. No. I'll survive.

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No doctors. Please?

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All right, Eddie. We'll call you.

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Thank you, Eddie.

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Um...

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i(stranger)/i I don't mind the money.

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But in the age of mechanical reproduction,

they got the only copy of my thesis.

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Ouisa, where's the first-aid book?

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The Red Cross advises

"Press edges of wound firmly together."

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- Yes, I'm doing that.

- i(screams)/i

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Hold on. Ouisa, I need gauze.

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- It's been wonderful seeing you.

- No. Stay.

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My time is so short.

Before I leave America, I really should...

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- Did you see the new book on Czanne?

- Er, no. May I use the phone?

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An absolute revelation.

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I ran down the hall...

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$2,000,000. $2,000,000.

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..got the book on Czanne,

got the gauze from the kitchen,

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gave the Czanne to Flan,

and the gauze to Geoffrey.

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Ouisa!

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$2,000,000. $2,000,000.

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It's a lovely book.

I'll get him a clean shirt. Please stay.

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- And peace was restored.

- And then...

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Your children said you were kind.

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All the kids were sitting around the dorm

dishing the... sh*t out of their parents.

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But your kids were silent. They said

"No. Not our parents. Not Flan and Ouisa."

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"Not the Kittredges.

The Kittredges are kind."

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So, after the muggers left, I looked up,

saw these Fifth Avenue apartments.

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Mrs Onassis lives there.

I know the Babcocks live over there.

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The Auchinclosses live there.

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But... you lived here.

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I came here.

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Can you believe what the kids said?

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Mm. Well...

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iHe mentioned our kids' names./i

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We can mention our kids' names. They

won't sue us for mentioning their names.

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Talbot and Woody mean the world to me.

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Woody? He lets you call him Woody?

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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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