Six Degrees Of Separation (tbc)

The film of the play that spawned nerd pub game Six Degrees Of Kevin Bacon is a glib farce, Will Smith impressing as a blag-artist claiming to be actor Sidney Poitier's son. Turning up on the doorstep of wealthy New York liberals Donald Sutherland and Stockard Channing, he smart-mouths his way into their lives with a few after-dinner anecdotes... But the troubled shyster is gradually falling for his own deception.

Dancing cheek-to-cheek with his hit stage show for most of the way, John Guare's adapted screenplay is consistently witty and literate, giving Smith and Channing plenty of scope to shine. But, for all its elegance, it's never quite sharp enough to work as a satire, prodding at its bourgeois targets instead of slicing through them.

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