Six Degrees Of Separation Page #8

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


- Paul?

- i(groaning)/i

579

00:
38:10,640 -- 00:38:12,631

Paul, are you OK?

580

00:
38:12,760 -- 00:38:14,432

Paul?

581

00:
38:15,760 -- 00:38:18,399

What the f***'s goin' on here?

Who the f*** are you?

582

00:
38:18,880 -- 00:38:20,711

Flan!

583

00:
38:21,960 -- 00:38:23,109

Flan!

584

00:
38:23,240 -- 00:38:24,912

i(Flan)/i Ouisa?

585

00:
38:25,040 -- 00:38:26,712

What is it?

586

00:
38:26,840 -- 00:38:31,516

- God! There's someone in the house.

- Someone's in the...?

587

00:
38:31,640 -- 00:38:34,791

- iYes, hello?/i

- Frank? I need help up here right away.

588

00:
38:36,280 -- 00:38:39,670

- Hey. How you doin'?

- My God!

589

00:
38:41,000 -- 00:38:42,797

Ho-ho-ho!

590

00:
38:42,920 -- 00:38:45,309

Nice stuff!

591

00:
38:45,440 -- 00:38:48,512

- Fancy chair.

- Oh! Ouisa! Argh!

592

00:
38:49,600 -- 00:38:52,398

- I can explain.

- You went out and picked up this thing?

593

00:
38:52,520 -- 00:38:57,469

You brought this thing into our house?!

Thing! Thing! Get out of my house!

594

00:
38:57,600 -- 00:38:59,989

- Stop it! He might have a gun!

- A gun?!

595

00:
39:00,120 -- 00:39:02,759

Yeah, I might have a gun.

I might have a knife!

596

00:
39:02,880 -- 00:39:04,393

Oh! Ouisa!

597

00:
39:09,160 -- 00:39:11,549

Get out! Get out! Get out!

598

00:
39:11,680 -- 00:39:13,989

Take your clothes

and go back to the gutter!

599

00:
39:14,120 -- 00:39:16,634

Take it easy with my pants!

600

00:
39:20,520 -- 00:39:23,432

- F*** you!

- Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

601

00:
39:23,560 -- 00:39:25,710

- Please, don't tell my father.

- Just go.

602

00:
39:25,840 -- 00:39:28,559

- I got so Ionely and so afraid...

- Give me back my $50.

603

00:
39:28,680 -- 00:39:31,194

I spent it. You had so much.

I couldn't be alone!

604

00:
39:31,320 -- 00:39:33,470

Get out.

605

00:
39:33,600 -- 00:39:35,477

- Get out.

- Everything all right?

606

00:
39:35,600 -- 00:39:39,479

Of course everything's all right.

Make sure they leave - by the back door.

607

00:
39:39,600 -- 00:39:41,238

I'm so sorry.

608

00:
39:42,360 -- 00:39:44,316

i(gasping)/i

609

00:
39:45,160 -- 00:39:47,799

- My God!

- Is anything gone?

610

00:
39:47,920 -- 00:39:51,151

- How can I look? I'm shaking.

- I wanna know if anything's gone.

611

00:
39:51,280 -- 00:39:54,431

- Calm down.

- We could've been killed. The Kandinsky!

612

00:
39:54,560 -- 00:39:57,836

Kandinsky! Oh, no, there it is.

The silver Victorian inkwell.

613

00:
39:57,960 -- 00:40:01,839

- How can you think about things?!

- Thank God. There's the inkwell.

614

00:
40:01,960 -- 00:40:03,916

Silver jaguar.

615

00:
40:05,040 -- 00:40:07,998

- Why?

- Slashed. Throats slashed.

616

00:
40:09,120 -- 00:40:10,473

There's the Degas.

617

00:
40:10,600 -- 00:40:14,036

Go to bed at night happy and then

murdered. Would we have woken up?

618

00:
40:14,160 -- 00:40:16,116

We're alive.

619

00:
40:17,680 -- 00:40:20,399

And that's that.

620

00:
40:20,520 -- 00:40:22,078

Well, it's not.

621

00:
40:24,680 -- 00:40:26,716

I think we could tell if someone was here.

622

00:
40:26,840 -- 00:40:28,796

- We didn't all night.

- i(phone rings)/i

623

00:
40:28,920 -- 00:40:32,879

Oh! No, don't.

Don't pick up that phone. It's him!

624

00:
40:35,320 -- 00:40:36,753

- Hello?

- iFlanders?/i

625

00:
40:36,880 -- 00:40:37,835

Geoffrey!

626

00:
40:37,960 -- 00:40:43,159

I've been thinking. Those Japs

really want the Czanne. They'll pay.

627

00:
40:43,280 -- 00:40:46,636

You can depend on me

for an additional overcall of 250.

628

00:
40:46,760 -- 00:40:49,399

250,000?

629

00:
40:49,520 -- 00:40:54,275

And I was thinking, for South Africa,

what about a black American film festival?

630

00:
40:54,400 -- 00:40:56,595

With this Spike Lee you have now.

631

00:
40:56,720 -- 00:41:00,110

And, of course, get Poitier down

to be the president of the jury.

632

00:
41:00,680 -- 00:41:02,511

iAnd I know Cosby./i

633

00:
41:02,640 -- 00:41:05,154

And I love this Eddie Murphy.

634

00:
41:05,280 -- 00:41:11,150

And my wife, she went fishing with Diana

Ross and her new Norwegian husband.

635

00:
41:11,280 -- 00:41:13,236

And they must have some new blacks.

636

00:
41:13,360 -- 00:41:15,635

It sounds a wonderful idea.

637

00:
41:15,760 -- 00:41:17,512

I'll call Poitier at the Sherry.

638

00:
41:17,640 -- 00:41:21,519

- No! No, no. We'll call.

- iThey're calling my plane./i

639

00:
41:21,640 -- 00:41:24,598

- And again, last night...

- iNo need to thank./i

640

00:
41:24,720 -- 00:41:26,756

- See you shortly.

- The banks?

641

00:
41:26,880 -- 00:41:28,233

My lawyers.

642

00:
41:29,280 -- 00:41:30,793

- Thank you, sir.

- Exactly.

643

00:
41:30,920 -- 00:41:33,559

- Safe trip.

- Thank you.

644

00:
41:33,680 -- 00:41:36,274

i(Ouisa)/i And here we are.

645

00:
41:46,360 -- 00:41:47,713

Safe.

646

00:
42:16,520 -- 00:42:19,751

- Yoo-hoo! Do we have a story to tell you?

- Whoo!

647

00:
42:19,880 -- 00:42:23,509

- Do iwe/i have a story to tell iyou?!/i

- Let us tell you our story first.

648

00:
42:23,640 -- 00:42:26,598

- When did your story happen?

- Saturday night.

649

00:
42:26,720 -- 00:42:30,315

We win! Our story happened

Friday night, so we go first.

650

00:
42:30,440 -- 00:42:33,034

Our two and their son

are at Harvard together.

651

00:
42:33,800 -- 00:42:38,954

- We're going to be in the movies.

- We are going to be in the movie of iCats./i

652

00:
42:39,080 -- 00:42:41,275

Yes!

653

00:
42:41,400 -- 00:42:44,119

You tell your story first.

654

00:
42:44,240 -- 00:42:47,277

Friday night we were home.

The door bell rang.

655

00:
42:47,400 -- 00:42:50,836

I am not impressed, but it is the son of...

656

00:
42:50,960 -- 00:42:51,995

You got it!

657

00:
42:52,120 -- 00:42:55,795

The kid was mugged.

We had to go out. We left him.

658

00:
42:55,920 -- 00:42:58,878

He was so charming.

659

00:
42:59,000 -- 00:43:03,278

His father was taking the redeye.

He couldn't get into the hotel till 7 am.

660

00:
43:03,400 -- 00:43:04,958

He stayed with us.

661

00:
43:05,080 -- 00:43:08,038

Middle of the night,

somebody screamed "Burglar!"

662

00:
43:08,160 -- 00:43:13,757

We came out in the hall. Paul is chasing

this naked blond thief down the corridor.

663

00:
43:13,880 -- 00:43:18,670

Blond thief runs out, the alarms go off.

The kid saved our lives.

664

00:
43:18,800 -- 00:43:22,475

- That was no burglar.

- You had another house guest.

665

00:
43:22,600 -- 00:43:24,192

We feel so guilty.

666

00:
43:24,320 -- 00:43:27,995

Paul could've been killed by that intruder.

He was very understanding.

667

00:
43:28,120 -- 00:43:30,554

- Was anything missing from your house?

- No.

668

00:
43:30,680 -- 00:43:35,515

- Did you give Paul any money?

- $25 till his father arrived.

669

00:
43:36,920 -- 00:43:39,070

We told them our story.

670

00:
43:39,200 -- 00:43:41,236

Oh!

671

00:
43:41,360 -- 00:43:44,238

- Have you talked to your kids?

Rate this script:0.0 / 0 votes

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…

All John Guare scripts | John Guare Scripts

1 fan

Submitted on August 05, 2018

Discuss this script with the community:

0 Comments

    Translation

    Translate and read this script in other languages:

    Select another language:

    • - Select -
    • 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
    • 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
    • Español (Spanish)
    • Esperanto (Esperanto)
    • 日本語 (Japanese)
    • Português (Portuguese)
    • Deutsch (German)
    • العربية (Arabic)
    • Français (French)
    • Русский (Russian)
    • ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
    • 한국어 (Korean)
    • עברית (Hebrew)
    • Gaeilge (Irish)
    • Українська (Ukrainian)
    • اردو (Urdu)
    • Magyar (Hungarian)
    • मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
    • Indonesia (Indonesian)
    • Italiano (Italian)
    • தமிழ் (Tamil)
    • Türkçe (Turkish)
    • తెలుగు (Telugu)
    • ภาษาไทย (Thai)
    • Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
    • Čeština (Czech)
    • Polski (Polish)
    • Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
    • Românește (Romanian)
    • Nederlands (Dutch)
    • Ελληνικά (Greek)
    • Latinum (Latin)
    • Svenska (Swedish)
    • Dansk (Danish)
    • Suomi (Finnish)
    • فارسی (Persian)
    • ייִדיש (Yiddish)
    • հայերեն (Armenian)
    • Norsk (Norwegian)
    • English (English)

    Citation

    Use the citation below to add this screenplay to your bibliography:

    Style:MLAChicagoAPA

    "Six Degrees Of Separation" Scripts.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 23 Nov. 2024. <https://www.scripts.com/script/six_degrees_of_separation_18229>.

    We need you!

    Help us build the largest writers community and scripts collection on the web!

    Watch the movie trailer

    Six Degrees Of Separation

    The Studio:

    ScreenWriting Tool

    Write your screenplay and focus on the story with many helpful features.


    Quiz

    Are you a screenwriting master?

    »
    Who is the main actor in "Iron Man"?
    A Chris Evans
    B Robert Downey Jr.
    C Chris Hemsworth
    D Mark Ruffalo