For Paul, every person is a new door to a new world.
The story of a young, gay, black, con artist who, posing as the son of Sidney Poitier, cunningly maneuvers his way into the lives of a white, upper-class New York family.
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Contemplative, intimate, contemporary and spare.
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- intimateepic
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Filipe Manuel Netoon TMDB · Dec 20224/10
**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
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Cast
- Stockard ChanningOuisa
- Will SmithPaul
- Donald SutherlandFlan
- Ian McKellenGeoffrey
- Mary Beth HurtKitty
- Bruce DavisonLarkin
- Richard MasurDr. Fine
- Anthony Michael HallTrent
- Heather GrahamElizabeth
- Eric ThalRick
Crew
- Fred SchepisiDirector
- John GuareWriter
- Ian BakerDirector of Photography
- Jerry GoldsmithOriginal Music Composer
- Peter HonessEditor
- Arnon MilchanProducer
- Fred SchepisiProducer
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