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Six Degrees of Separation is a american film of genre Drama directed by Fred Schepisi released in USA on 8 december 1993 with Stockard Channing
Six Degrees of Separation (1993)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 8 december 1993
Length 1h52
Directed by Fred Schepisi
OriginUSA
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Films based on plays, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Rating67%
Six Degrees of Separation is a 1993 American comedy-drama film directed by Fred Schepisi and adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-nominated John Guare play of the same title.
The plot of the film was inspired by the real-life story of David Hampton, a con man and robber who managed to convince a number of people in the 1980s that he was the son of actor Sidney Poitier. The writer John Guare was a friend of Inger McCabe Elliott and her husband Osborn Elliott. In October 1983 Hampton came to the Elliott's New York apartment and they allowed him to spend the night. The next morning Inger Elliott found Hampton in bed with another man and later called the police. The Elliotts told Guare about the story and it inspired him to write the play years later.For her lead performance as a fictionalized version of Inger Elliott, Stockard Channing received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
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Fifth Avenue socialite Ouisa Kittredge (Stockard Channing) and her art dealer husband Flan (Donald Sutherland), are parents of "two at Harvard and one at Groton". But the narrow world inhabited by the Kittredges and their public status as people interested in the arts make them easy prey for Paul (Will Smith). Paul is a skillful con-artist, who mysteriously appears at their door one night, injured and bleeding, claiming to be a close college friend of their Ivy League kids, as well as the son of Sidney Poitier. Ouisa and Flan are much impressed by Paul's fine taste, keen wit, articulate literary expositions and surprising culinary skill. His appealing facade soon has the Kittredges putting him up, lending him money and taking satisfaction in his praise for their posh lifestyle. Paul's scheme continues until he brings home a hustler, and his actual indigence is revealed. The shocked Kittredges kick him out when it is revealed that they are but the most recent victims of the duplicity with which Paul has charmed his way into many upper-crust homes along the Upper East Side. Paul's schemes become highbrow legend – anecdotal accounts of which are bantered about at their cocktail parties. In the end, Paul has a profound effect on the many individuals who encounter him, linking them in their shared experience.Actors
Stockard Channing
(Ouisa)
Will Smith
(Paul)
Donald Sutherland
(Flan)
Ian McKellen
(Geoffrey)
Mary Beth Hurt
(Kitty)
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