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Six Degrees of Separation (1993)
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John Guare's hit Broadway play--about an Upper East Side couple who gets bilked by a young black man claiming to be Sidney Poitier's son--receives a terrific screen translation in this film by Fred Schepisi. Though the play was discursive and episodic, Schepisi, working from Guare's adaptation, makes it all flow like a fascinating evening listening to friends recount something that happened to them. But the story itself is also intriguing for the disparity it reveals between the wealthy, the would-be wealthy, and the have-nots yearning to be rich. Stockard Channing and Donald Sutherland are exceptional as the couple who open their home to...
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Six Degrees of Separation Movie Review by Zara  (11/7/2007) |
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This movie really blew me away when I watched it because I was still young and impressionable. I didn't know any high falootin' people in Manhattan and didn't understand most of the speech patterns that they were giving off, but boy did they SOUND smart to me.
Funny thing is, people who sound smart don't always translate...
(complete Six Degrees of Separation review by Zara)
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