Six Degrees of Separation (1993) (original) (raw)
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Original title
Six Degrees of Separation (6 Degrees of Separation)
Year
1993
Running time
108 min.
Country
United States
Director
Screenwriter
Cast
Music
Cinematography
Producer
Genre
Drama. Comedy | Comedy-Drama. Gay & Lesbian
Synopsis
Flan and Ouisa Kittredge (Donald Sutherland and Stockard Channing) are a married couple who have built highly successful careers as art dealers catering to Manhattan's upper crust. The Kittredges are entertaining friends one evening when a young black man named Paul (Will Smith) appears at their door. Paul says that he's a close friend of their children, with whom he attended boarding school, and he's just been mugged and needs to get off the street for a moment. Flan and Ouisa invite him in, and they are immediately taken by Paul's intelligence and charm; he offers to prepare dinner, regales them with stories about his father, Sidney Poitier, and ends up spending the night at their apartment.
Awards
1993: Nominated for Oscar: Best Actress (Stockard Channing)
1993: Nominated for Golden Globe: Best Actress - Comedy/Musical (Channing)
1993: Chicago Film Critics Awards: 2 Nominations, including Best Actress (Channing)
1993: National Society of Film Critics (NSFC): 2 nominations
Critics' reviews
- "Six Degrees is the next best thing to a great play; a fantastically clever, verbally scintillating, consistently amusing one."
- "Guare's play is austerely funny and cerebral"
- "Combined with Guare's bountiful writing and Schepisi's ambitious style, Six Degrees of Separation approaches the sublime"
- "What seems to start out as a burlesque against the rich -- a satire of class-consciousness -- ends up mutating into something stranger and richer and more ambiguous"
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