Flan: What kind of behavior is this?
Ouisa: Tell me Flan, how much of your life can you account for?
Flan: Are you drunk? What's the matter with you? Don't you realize how important she is? What are you unhappy about? The Cezanne sale went through, the Matisse went through, we're rich! Rich enough. Next month there's a Bonnard.
Ouisa: These are the times I could take a knife and dig out your heart! Answer me! How much of your life...
Flan: -my life can I account for? All of it!
[pause]
Flan: I am a gambler.
Ouisa: We're a terrible match.
Donald Southerland as Flan and Stockard Channing as Ouisa
Triaia (From IMDB):
Will Smith refused to actually kiss Anthony Michael Hall just before their kissing scene so a camera trick was used showing only the back of their heads. In an interview, Smith stated that Denzel Washington advised him not to kiss a man on-screen for it would harm his career. Smith stated that he regretted not going through with it saying "It was very immature on my part."
Will Smith's character in the film passes himself off as Sidney Poitier's son. In real life, when Smith met Poitier for the first time, the veteran actor said "Well, you're almost handsome enough to be my son".
The inspiration for Paul, David Hampton, died of AIDS on July 18, 2003.
To make the movie acceptable for television showings, the nude hustler (Lou Milione), has been digitally altered. In the scene after he is discovered with Paul (Will Smith), he is chased around the apartment. In the original version, he is completely naked. But in the television version, white jockey underwear has been added digitally.
Doug (J.J. Abrams), when looking through the yearbook with the other college children, exclaims "remember Greg Grunberg?", a reference to Abrams' childhood friend, whom he often casts in his own projects.
When Paul is talking about his thesis, he mentions the Lord of the Rings books. Geoffrey, who is listening to him, is played by Sir Ian McKellen, who later played Gandolf in the Lord of the Rings films.
The original Broadway production of "Six Degrees of Separation" opened at the Vivian Beaumont Theater on November 8, 1990, ran for 485 performances, and was nominated for the 1991 Tony Award for Best Play. Stockard Channing reprises her role in the movie while her fellow Broadway stage actors Kelly Bishop, John Cunningham, and Sam Stoneburner have cameo roles. Stockard Channing was nominated for the 1991 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. John Guare wrote both the stage play and the screenplay for the movie adaptation.
The part of the husband was initially offered to Michael Douglas.
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.
Meryl Streep was interested in playing the lead because she liked the play, and she had worked with Fred Schepisi on Plenty (1985) and A Cry in the Dark (1988).
Kitty Carlisle's last film.
J.J. Abrams, who played Doug, went on to become a writer and producer of several television shows, including one called Six Degrees (2006) (a reference to the same "small world" theory that is discussed in Six Degrees of Separation (1993)).
L.A. Theatre Works produced a radio adaptation of the play, in which Ouisa and Flan are played by Swoosie Kurtz and Alan Alda. Alda, of course, became famous for taking over another role from Donald Sutherland: "Hawkeye" Pierce from M*A*S*H (1972).
When Paul is listing some of his "father's" movies, he mentions Lilies of the Field (1963), which had its music composed by Jerry Goldsmith who also wrote the music for this movie.
This film would never have been made if Stockard Channing hadn't been cast as Ouisa. She starred in the Broadway version, and the playwright, John Guare, stipulated that if the play were adapted to a film, Stockard Channing would have to reprise her role. Without Stockard as Ouisa, the movie was not to be made at all.
Stockard Channing's character, Ouisa Kittredge, is based on Inger McCabe Elliott, a New York City socialite and friend of screenwriter John Guare. Elliott encountered David Hampton in 1983 and told Guare about the story.
Will Smith's character in the film passes himself off as Sidney Poitier's son. In real life, when Smith met Poitier for the first time, the veteran actor said "Well, you're almost handsome enough to be my son".
The inspiration for Paul, David Hampton, died of AIDS on July 18, 2003.
To make the movie acceptable for television showings, the nude hustler (Lou Milione), has been digitally altered. In the scene after he is discovered with Paul (Will Smith), he is chased around the apartment. In the original version, he is completely naked. But in the television version, white jockey underwear has been added digitally.
Doug (J.J. Abrams), when looking through the yearbook with the other college children, exclaims "remember Greg Grunberg?", a reference to Abrams' childhood friend, whom he often casts in his own projects.
When Paul is talking about his thesis, he mentions the Lord of the Rings books. Geoffrey, who is listening to him, is played by Sir Ian McKellen, who later played Gandolf in the Lord of the Rings films.
The original Broadway production of "Six Degrees of Separation" opened at the Vivian Beaumont Theater on November 8, 1990, ran for 485 performances, and was nominated for the 1991 Tony Award for Best Play. Stockard Channing reprises her role in the movie while her fellow Broadway stage actors Kelly Bishop, John Cunningham, and Sam Stoneburner have cameo roles. Stockard Channing was nominated for the 1991 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. John Guare wrote both the stage play and the screenplay for the movie adaptation.
The part of the husband was initially offered to Michael Douglas.
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.
Meryl Streep was interested in playing the lead because she liked the play, and she had worked with Fred Schepisi on Plenty (1985) and A Cry in the Dark (1988).
Kitty Carlisle's last film.
J.J. Abrams, who played Doug, went on to become a writer and producer of several television shows, including one called Six Degrees (2006) (a reference to the same "small world" theory that is discussed in Six Degrees of Separation (1993)).
L.A. Theatre Works produced a radio adaptation of the play, in which Ouisa and Flan are played by Swoosie Kurtz and Alan Alda. Alda, of course, became famous for taking over another role from Donald Sutherland: "Hawkeye" Pierce from M*A*S*H (1972).
When Paul is listing some of his "father's" movies, he mentions Lilies of the Field (1963), which had its music composed by Jerry Goldsmith who also wrote the music for this movie.
This film would never have been made if Stockard Channing hadn't been cast as Ouisa. She starred in the Broadway version, and the playwright, John Guare, stipulated that if the play were adapted to a film, Stockard Channing would have to reprise her role. Without Stockard as Ouisa, the movie was not to be made at all.
Stockard Channing's character, Ouisa Kittredge, is based on Inger McCabe Elliott, a New York City socialite and friend of screenwriter John Guare. Elliott encountered David Hampton in 1983 and told Guare about the story.
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