SummaryAn affluent New York couple finds their lives touched, intruded upon, and compelled by a mysterious young black man who is never quite who he says he is.
Directed By:Fred Schepisi
Written By:John Guare
Six Degrees of Separation
Metascore
Generally Favorable
72
User score
Generally Favorable
6.7
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
72
72% Positive
13 Reviews
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100
Take a funny, touching, complex play that moves at a breakneck pace, filter it through the huge (if often underrated) talents of director Fred Schepisi, and you've got Six Degrees of Separation. Such a rare gift - a film that treats language with infinite respect and ideas with cultivated precision, a film that challenges us to keep up and rewards our efforts with a bittersweet comedy of manners. [24 Dec 1993]
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It's got sharp wit and a wise heart, and as good as it was onstage, it's even better as a movie. [22 Dec 1993, p.33]
75
Schepisi, with his camera always moving, has the knack of keeping the viewer as slightly off balance as Guare's story does, and the result is a fascinating motion picture. [21 Jan 1994, p.3F]
70
What seems to start out as a burlesque against the rich -- a satire of class-consciousness -- ends up mutating into something stranger and richer and more ambiguous. [10 Dec 1993, p.F4]
67
I'm not sure if this is a failing of the play, the actor, the director, or whatever, but it's a nagging perplexity at the center of this story. Yet there's so much else going on here, ideas and lines of thought that it engenders, that it's difficult not to enjoy the experiences. It's also bitingly funny.
58
By the end, most moviegoers are liable to see it as much ado about nothing.
50
The relationships feel contrived, less a drama than an exercise in cuteness.
User score
Generally Favorable
6.7
64% Positive
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18% Mixed
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2 Ratings
2 Ratings
Apr 12, 2018
2
A film about a smarmy con-artist who has done his homework well and simultaneously manifests perfect acting skills to seduce and swindle the wealthy and elite, who apparently are so pathologically naive and gullible that they refuse to act upon clear evidence that they are being duped. This film is ridiculous and terribly uncomfortable to watch because it is predicated upon the notion that all the immensely successful people Will Smith preys upon have no operational awareness or intuition at all. You'll squirm because it's so totally implausible, not because it has any real tension or intrigue. Whoever is responsible for this mess should be arrested and later invited to study plumbing.
Production Company:
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- Maiden Movies
- New Regency Productions
Release Date:Dec 8, 1993
Duration:1 h 52 m
Rating:R
Tagline:For Paul, every person is a new door to a new world.
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Nomination
National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA
• 2 Nominations
