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Release Date:
8 December 1993 (USA)
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Tagline:
For Paul, every person is a new door to a new world.
Plot:
Flan and Ouisa Kittredge, rich NYC art dealers, are called on one night by a young man, Paul, who professes to be a friend of their kids' from Harvard...
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Awards:
Nominated for Oscar.
Another 1 nomination
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absolutely stunning
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Stockard Channing | ... | Louisa ('Ouisa') Kittredge | |
| Will Smith | ... | Paul | |
| Donald Sutherland | ... | John Flanders ('Flan') Kittredge | |
| Ian McKellen | ... | Geoffrey Miller | |
| Mary Beth Hurt | ... | Kitty | |
| Bruce Davison | ... | Larkin | |
| Richard Masur | ... | Dr. Fine | |
| Anthony Michael Hall | ... | Trent Conway | |
| Heather Graham | ... | Elizabeth | |
| Eric Thal | ... | Rick | |
| Anthony Rapp | ... | Ben | |
| Oz Perkins | ... | Woodrow ('Woody') Kittredge (as Osgood Perkins) | |
| Catherine Kellner | ... | Talbot ('Tess') Kittredge | |
| J.J. Abrams | ... | Doug (as Jeffrey Abrams) | |
| Joe Pentangelo | ... | Police officer |
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Rated R for language and some sexuality.
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112 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Iceland:L |
Argentina:13 |
Australia:M |
Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) |
Canada:18A (Ontario) |
Canada:G (Québec) |
Germany:6 |
Spain:13 |
UK:15 |
USA:R
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The original Broadway production of "Six Degrees of Separation" opened at the Vivian Beaumont Theater on November 8, 1990, ran for 485 performances and was nominated for the 1991 Tony Award for Best Play. Stockard Channing reprises her role in the movie while her fellow Broadway stage actors Kelly Bishop, John Cunningham and Sam Stoneburner have cameo roles. Stockard Channing was nominated for the 1991 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. John Guare wrote both the stage play and the screenplay for the movie adaptation.
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Crew or equipment visible: When Flan is pretending to pray next to Ouisa, the boom mic and operator are reflected in the large window behind them.
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Quotes:
[first lines]
Flan: My God!
Ouisa: Is anything gone?
Flan: How can I look, I'm shaking!
Ouisa: I want to know if anything's gone!
Flan: Calm down.
Ouisa: We could have been killed! Oh, my God! The Kandinsky!
Flan: The Kandinsky!
Ouisa: It's gone, oh my God! Call the police!
Flan: Oh, no, there it is. Oh! The silver Victorian inkwell!
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Flan: My God!
Ouisa: Is anything gone?
Flan: How can I look, I'm shaking!
Ouisa: I want to know if anything's gone!
Flan: Calm down.
Ouisa: We could have been killed! Oh, my God! The Kandinsky!
Flan: The Kandinsky!
Ouisa: It's gone, oh my God! Call the police!
Flan: Oh, no, there it is. Oh! The silver Victorian inkwell!
[...]
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Six Degrees of Separation (2003) (TV)
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Soundtrack:
JUST ONE OF THOSE THINGS
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This movie is absolutely stunning. Very original in plot, colors, and directing, with a superb soundtrack. It discusses how we are all no more then 6 degrees of separation from eachother. Yet this aspect is only the plot. In reality it adds another perspective on our daily lives. Through Ouisa Kittridge it teaches us how mundane our everyday events are, that we all need something drastic to happen to bring us out of sleepy everyday into a fun, exciting, new being. We are equated to John Kittridge who lives his self involved life not noticing the people around him - not the hippy couple in the park who happen to be artists, nor his kids away in college, not even his wife's true personality. Through Ouisa we are shown how we all look for something new to enter our lives, even a sham like Paul can turn us around, give a new meaning to the mundane. Of course the tango musical theme combined with extensive monologues by Paul forces viewer to dance with and listen into the characters, almost becoming one. (9+/10)