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Six Degrees of Separation

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Stockard Channing

Will Smith

Donald Sutherland

Ian McKellen

Mary Beth Hurt

Bruce Davison

Richard Masur

Anthony Michael Hall

Heather Graham

Eric Thal

Anthony Rapp

Osgood Perkins

Catherine Kellner

J.J. Abrams

Joe Pentangelo

Lou Milione

Brooke Hayward

Peter Duchin

Sam Stoneburner

Maeve McGuire

Kelly Bishop

John Cunningham

Vasek Simek

Chuck Close

Kazuko

Adele Chatfield-Taylor

Maggie Burke

Edmund Genest

Michael Stanley Kirby

David Callegati

Daniel von Bargen

John Rowe Jr.

Elizabeth Rossa

Diane Hartford

Frank O'Brien

Ann McDonough

José Rabelo

Todd Alcott

Joanne Noble

Miriam Fond

Annie Meisels

Mitch Kolpan

Michele Greco

Tony Zazula

Arthur McGill

Susan Tabor

Paul Schmidt

Carolyn Groves

Jeannine Moore

Tim Saunders

David Tice

Redman Maxfield

Margaret Eginton

Margaret Thomson

Vince O'Brien

Anne Swift

Richmond Hoxie

Kitty Carlisle

Madhur Jaffrey

Arthur Brooks

Jacqueline Bertrand

Lisa Crosby

Nancy Duerr

Brian McConnachie

Angela Thornton

Robert Trumbull

Richard Whiting

Cleo King

Hélène Cardona

Andrea Conte

Beatrice de Borg

Garlan Green

Stuart Crawford Hult

Doris McCarthy

Ronald Rand

Jill Tompkins

John Guare

Fred Schepisi

Ian Baker

Jerry Goldsmith

Patrizia von Brandenstein

Dennis Bradford

Ellen Chenoweth

Peter Honess

Judianna Makovsky

Gretchen Rau

Ingrid Price

Dianne Dreyer

Maria Nay

Jane E. Myers

Stephen Kent

Kay Chapin

Mary Pat Walsh

Naomi Donne

Livia Ruzic

Arnon Milchan

Amy Sayres

Felicity Nove

Robin Gray

Glenn Newnham

Martin Oswin

Kenneth Hall

Donald J. Lee Jr.

Peter Burgess

Peter Fenton

Ric Kidney

Chris Brigham

Bill Daly

Angel De Angelis

Alex Stitt

Filipe Manuel Neto

**A play, transported to the cinema, continues to be a play, even if it is an intelligent and well-made play.**

Based on a theatrical play, this film makes an interesting mix between comedy and sharp and blunt social criticism by allowing a very rich couple from New York to be very easily deceived by a tramp who, using the right knowledge, manages to enter and sleep at their house.

Despite not being perfect, and being a reasonably still film, dependent on dialogues that never seem to end, the film works quite well if we are open to giving it the opportunity it asks of us. It is not, however, an easy film: the reliance on dialogues, and the intelligent, almost intellectual, way in which they are conceived, will scare away audiences who are not so willing to tolerate it. For the most part, the film feels a lot like a play or something you'd see in the theater, and that can get a little tiresome.

Will Smith is the great actor who dominates the film, with a superb performance. It was a film that helped a lot in his artistic career, and that opened the doors for him to better and more recognized works. However, it is still one of the actor's best films so far. We cannot, however, ignore the inspired and successful performance of Donald Sutherland and Stockard Channing, in the role of the two millionaire art dealers that Smith so easily deceives. In a more discreet position, Sir Ian McKellen is positively supportive of the main cast.

Technically, it's a film that doesn't seem to have been very expensive to make, as almost half of the action takes place inside the rich people's apartment, and that all the action seems to have been limited to a relatively small geography. There are no visual or special effects that stand out, the sound has minimal intervention, and the soundtrack consists of songs that we know relatively well and that are cleverly used. The cinematography is basically 90's standard, which makes this film a bit of a dated piece.

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