Trailer - Six Degrees of Separation - 1993

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News Comedy Six Degrees of Separation is a 1993 American comedy-drama film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and directed by Fred Schepisi adapted from John Guare's Pulitzer Prize-nominated[4] 1990 play of the same name. The plot of the film was inspired by the real-life story of David Hampton a con man and robber who convinced a number of people in the 1980s that he was the son of actor Sidney Poitier. In October 1983 Hampton came to the New York apartment of Inger McCabe Elliott and her husband Osborn Elliott who allowed him to spend the night in the apartment. The next morning Inger found Hampton in bed with another man and later called the police. The Elliotts told their friend writer John Guare the story which inspired him to write the play years later.[5][6]

Six Degrees of Separation is a 1993 American comedy-drama film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and directed by Fred Schepisi, adapted from John Guare's Pulitzer Prize-nominated[4] 1990 play of the same name.

The plot of the film was inspired by the real-life story of David Hampton, a con man and robber who convinced a number of people in the 1980s that he was the son of actor Sidney Poitier. In October 1983, Hampton came to the New York apartment of Inger McCabe Elliott and her husband Osborn Elliott, who allowed him to spend the night in the apartment. The next morning, Inger found Hampton in bed with another man and later called the police. The Elliotts told their friend, writer John Guare, the story, which inspired him to write the play years later.[5][6]

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