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1. Logos/ Title/ "Hello" [:09]
2. $2 Million Pretension [4:19]
3. A Mugging Victim [4:56]
4. "Chaos Control" [3:30]
5. Catty About Daddy [1:46]
6. Pasta/Politics/ Poitier [5:45]
7. "Manifesto Of Hate" [4:54]
8. Wheelers & Dealers [7:09]
9. Dreaming Of Cats [4:07]
10. The Naked Truth [2:49]
11. "Safe Trip" [2:40]
12. Trading Tales [2:00]
13. The Kids Come Home [3:13]
14. A Courageous Doctor [2:25]
15. Reading Into Things [4:25]
16. Harvard Detectives [2:30]
17. Rainy Night Pickup [4:26]
18. "A Profound Thought" [6:24]
19. Illegitimate Son [1:54]
20. Depleted Account [6:30]
21. "The Rainbow Room" [3:37]
22. Murder Or Suicide? [5:34]
23. Dueling Phones [3:06]
24. "Will You Help Me?" [7:12]
25. What's Paul's Name? [5:12]
26. He's No Anecdote [2:41]
27. "A Terrible Match" [2:44]
28. End Credits [1:44]
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1. Logos/Title/'Hello"|00:04:19||
2. $2 Million Pretension [4:56]
3. A Mugging Victim [3:30]
4. "Chaos Control" [1:46]
5. Catty About Daddy [5:45]
6. Past/ Politics/Poitier [4:54]
7. "Manifesto Of Hate" [7:09]
8. Wheelers & Dealers [4:07]
9. Dreaming Of Cats [2:49]
10. The Naked Truth [2:40]
11. "Safe Trip" [2:00]
12. Trading Tales [3:13]
13. The Kids Come Home [2:25]
14. A Courageous Doctor [4:25]
15. Reading Into Things [2:30]
16. Harvard Detectives [4:26]
17. Rainy Night Pickup [6:24]
18. "A Profound Thought" [1:54]
19. Illegitimate Son [6:30]
20. Depleted Account [3:37]
21. "The Rainbow Room" [5:34]
22. Murder Or Suicide? [3:06]
23. Dueling Phones [7:12]
24. "Will You Help Me?" [5:12]
25. What's Paul's Name? [2:41]
26. He's No Anecdote [2:44]
27. "A Terrible Match" [1:44]
28. End Credits [4:03]
- Features
Collectible booklet
Original theatrical trailer
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Directors
Fred Schepisi
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Producers
Arnon Milchan
Fred Schepisi
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Composers (Music Score)
Jerry Goldsmith
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Peter Honess
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Screen Writers
John Guare
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Set Designers
Gretchen Rau
Maria Nay
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Art Director - Dennis Bradford
Casting - Ellen Chenoweth
Cinematographer - Ian Baker
Composer (Music Score) - Jerry Goldsmith
Costume Designer - Judianna Makovsky
Executive Producer - Ric Kidney
Makeup - Naomi Donne
Musical Direction/Supervision - Bill Daly
Play Author - John Guare
Production Designer - Patrizia Von Brandenstein
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- Sandra Bullock
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"Six Degrees of Separation", adapted by
John Guare from his own popular play, is a fascinating study of guilt among the idle rich and the way a talented con man can manipulate their liberal vulnerability toward his own ends -- even if they involve something so simple as fitting in. It's a sharply paced, uniquely structured story, told mostly as snippets of cocktail party anecdotes (which come under fire as a luxury -- indeed, a crutch -- of the social interactions of the well-to-do).
Will Smith, then best known for his mugging on
"The Fresh Prince of Bel Air", is a revelation in a demanding role most wouldn't have thought him equal to. He expertly portrays the wayward homosexual who transforms himself into the intelligentsia's dream youth, unspooling an improbably flawless evening of academia and classy charm that serves as a chillingly effective entry point into these people's lives. Oscar-nominated
Stockard Channing is also masterful as the gabbing socialite who's been rejected by her own children, so seeks a surrogate son in
Smith's Paul. Rather than it demonstrating her charity and blindness to race and sexual preference, however,
Channing's character realizes she's using Paul as a character in her endless gossip, and that she is as drawn to him for his purported relationship to actor
Sidney Poitier as for his politely elegant elocution. Crucially, she struggles to figure out how else to incorporate his profoundly affecting appearance in her life.
Fred Schepisi's light comic tone sometimes wanders toward extremes, particularly in the children's hysterical and mostly unwarranted rebelliousness toward their parents, which plays like high camp. Otherwise, there's nary a misstep in the film whose title and subject matter helped popularize our notion of the world's surprising interconnectedness. ~ Derek Armstrong, Rovi
- Stockard Channing : Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy - Hollywood Foreign Press Association, 1993
- John Guare : Best Screenplay (Runner-up) - National Society of Film Critics, 1993
- Stockard Channing : Best Actress - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc, 1993
