Then one day, their inane lives are changed by a young black man, Paul (Will Smith), who arrives at the door with a blood-soaked shirt and an unlikely story. Adept at sipping cocktails and trading brittle ripostes, the Kittredges maintain their lavish lifestyle by selling other people's Matisses for enormous sums.
It is inhabited by an art dealer and his wife with the fashionably queer names of Flan (Donald Sutherland) and Ouisa Kittredge (Stockard Channing). The farce, which took place on a bare stage, now opens in a luxurious Fifth Avenue apartment. The rustle in the wings still haunts playwright John Guare's own glib adaptation. Never mind that plays - especially this too-precious gabfest - are born of words, not images.
The play "Six Degrees of Separation" packed theaters in New York and London, was plied with honors on both sides of the Atlantic and inevitably - perhaps even unavoidably - has been converted into a motion picture. ‘Six Degrees of Separation’ (R) By Rita Kempley
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