Six Degrees of Separation.

[Thrifty]

I saw this movie a few days ago, and am not quite sure what to make of it.  It's one of those movies that's just kind of confusing and irritating.  I don't quite get the premise.  Will Smith is a con-man who's entire con is tricking rich people into being his friend?  Yet he's also so outgoing and charming that he manages to convince a straight guy to have sex with him.  So why the fraud?  And why is Stockard Channing so entranced by him that in the end she'll give in to his increasingly absurd demands borne of his emotional neediness?  I guess the message is that these rich people have such strained relationships with their own grown children that they embrace Will Smith as some sort of surrogate child?  Except that doesn't erase the fact that he's still a con man and anything he says is subject to skepticism.

Anyone else remember this movie?

[daltysmilth]

Isn't that the movie where everyone stands around trying to connect themselves to Kevin Bacon in six films or less?

[shodan]

Six bacon connections?

[Thrifty]

Isn't that the movie where everyone stands around trying to connect themselves to Kevin Bacon in six films or less?

Well the game was inspired by the movie and the line from it where Stockard Channing says that everyone is connected to everyone else by no more than six degrees of separation, but that line itself is just a throwaway line with no bearing on the plot.

[Johnny Unusual]

Isn't that the movie where everyone stands around trying to connect themselves to Kevin Bacon in six films or less?

Well the game was inspired by the movie and the line from it where Stockard Channing says that everyone is connected to everyone else by no more than six degrees of separation, but that line itself is just a throwaway line with no bearing on the plot.

Actually it was  based on an idea first, which inspired the stage play on which the movie was based.  The idea was created by a Hungarian author sometime between WWI and WWII.  The Hungarian author was not Stockard Channing.

[Thrifty]

Isn't that the movie where everyone stands around trying to connect themselves to Kevin Bacon in six films or less?

Well the game was inspired by the movie and the line from it where Stockard Channing says that everyone is connected to everyone else by no more than six degrees of separation, but that line itself is just a throwaway line with no bearing on the plot.

Actually it was  based on an idea first, which inspired the stage play on which the movie was based.  The idea was created by a Hungarian author sometime between WWI and WWII.  The Hungarian author was not Stockard Channing.

You're saying they made a movie out of a saying?  What's next, "Shit Happens: The Motion Picture"?

[Johnny Unusual]

Isn't that the movie where everyone stands around trying to connect themselves to Kevin Bacon in six films or less?

Well the game was inspired by the movie and the line from it where Stockard Channing says that everyone is connected to everyone else by no more than six degrees of separation, but that line itself is just a throwaway line with no bearing on the plot.

Actually it was  based on an idea first, which inspired the stage play on which the movie was based.  The idea was created by a Hungarian author sometime between WWI and WWII.  The Hungarian author was not Stockard Channing.

You're saying they made a movie out of a saying?  What's next, "Shit Happens: The Motion Picture"?

Or a show called "What's Happenin'?"  But it's less of a saying and more of a statistical concept.