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Overview

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Director:

Fred Schepisi

Writers (WGA):

John Guare (play)
John Guare (screenplay)

Contact:

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Release Date:

8 December 1993 (USA) more

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Mystery more

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... more | add synopsis

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Awards:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 nomination more

User Comments:

The Con, The Greed, The Homosexuality more (81 total)


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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Additional Details

MPAA:

Rated R for language and some sexuality.

Runtime:

112 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Iceland:L | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | Canada:18A (Ontario) | Canada:G (Québec) | Germany:6 | Spain:13 | UK:15 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Bronxville, New York, USA more

Company:

Maiden Movies more


Fun Stuff

Trivia:

Catherine Kellner was cast after she answered an ad for an open casting call for what she thought was a movie directed by the Coen Brothers. more

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When Paul is on the phone to Ouisa he calls Flan (Donald Sutherland) "Donald". more

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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Movie Connections:

Referenced in Stan Helsing (2009) more

Soundtrack:

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7 out of 9 people found the following comment useful.
The Con, The Greed, The Homosexuality, 6 September 2007
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Author: Robert E Salmond from Canada

Every once and awhile, seemingly always at the oddest of times, I finally sit down to watch one of those films that everyone's heard of, but no one has seen. And every once and awhile I find a film that stirs my passion for storytelling.

Six Degrees of Separation will most likely never be understood, as the themes and allusions are often colored and complex. Even this writer doesn't begin to fully understand everything Guare is trying to say. It is however, quite disappointing, that in all of the internet chatter Google may churn out, the themes of homosexuality are ignored as if they have absolutely no bearing on the story. They are as vital a part of the story as is Louisa's breakdown scene, and Flan's realization that he does actually love Paul.

So, when you're at the video store, bored with the drivel Hollywood pukes out these days, pick this film up. Pay close attention to the cracks that begin to form in the characters, and run your fingers along those cracks to the end, and you may find yourself caught up in a story with a star shaped meaning. But be careful, it is the type of story that may have you looking inside yourself and who you're connected to.

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