The dialogue is many-faceted, subtle and swift New York cocktail chatter cubed. The movie is populated with the high bourgeoisie of Manhattan: Ouisa and art dealer Flan Kittredge (played wonderfully by Stockard Channing and Donald Sutherland). Their friends include South African financiers, foundation heads, even Kitty Carlisle. And it fits, somehow, that the other central character, Paul (Will Smith), is a con man black street kid who wangles his way into the Kittredges' apartment for the night by pretending to be the son of Sidney Poitier, in distress after being mugged and stabbed in Central Park. Like Paul, "Six Degrees of Separation" talks its way into our hearts, then opens up to chaos. "Splendor in the Grass" (Elia Kazan, 1961) at 9 p.m. Superb, vibrantly emotional drama of a blighted teenage love in 1920's small-town Kansas, with young Bud Stamper and Deenie Loomis (played by off-screen lovers Warren Beatty and Natalie Wood) driven together by passion, torn apart by class and small-town mores.
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