Six Degrees of Separation
- Director: Fred Schepisi
- Writer: John Guare
- Producer: Ric Kidney; Arnon Milchan
CGiii Comment
This is what happens when you educate children.
Witty, wordy and well-observed.
Recommended and important.
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The(ir) Blurb...
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.
Cast & Characters
Stockard Channing as Louisa Kittredge;
Will Smith as Paul;
Donald Sutherland as John Flanders Kittredge;
Ian McKellen as Geoffrey Miller;
Mary Beth Hurt as Kitty;
Bruce Davison as Larkin;
Richard Masur as Dr. Fine;
Anthony Michael Hall as Trent Conway;
Heather Graham as Elizabeth;
Eric Thal as Rick;
Anthony Rapp as Ben;
Oz Perkins as Woodrow;
Catherine Kellner as Talbot Kittredge;
J.J. Abrams as Doug;
Joe Pentangelo as Police officer