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Proof (2005)
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Reviews Counted:130
Fresh:82
Rotten:48
Average Rating:6.5/10
Consensus: Gwyneth Paltrow and Anthony Hopkins give exceptional performances in a film that intelligently tackles the territory between madness and genius.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for some sexual content, language and drug references.
Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:Sep 16, 2005 Limited
Box Office: $7,468,700
Synopsis: Gwyneth Paltrow, who won an Oscar for her performance in director John Madden's SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE, teams up again with Madden in PROOF, a poignant drama based on David Auburn's Pulitzer... Gwyneth Paltrow, who won an Oscar for her performance in director John Madden's SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE, teams up again with Madden in PROOF, a poignant drama based on David Auburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Paltrow lights up the screen as Catherine, a young woman who has given up a seemingly bright future in order to take care of her ailing father, Robert (Anthony Hopkins), a formerly brilliant mathematician who went crazy. After he dies, Catherine's closed-off world is invaded by Hal (Jake Gyllenhaal), a young mathematician who worshipped Robert, and Claire (Hope Davis), her successful sister who fears that Catherine is too much like their father--a talented, supremely intelligent person with severe mental problems. During the last years of his life, Robert filled 103 notebooks with his writings, but one of them, written during a brief period of lucidity, could turn the math world on its head, while also threatening Catherine's already wavering sanity. Auburn co-wrote the screenplay with Rebecca Miller (PERSONAL VELOCITY, THE BALLAD OF JACK AND ROSE), taking it off the stage, setting it in and around Chicago, and breathing new life into the story, along with Stephen Warbeck's compelling score and plenty of outstanding acting, particularly by the glowing Paltrow and the earnest Gyllenhaal. [More]
Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, Anthony Hopkins, Jake Gyllenhaal, Hope Davis
Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, Anthony Hopkins, Jake Gyllenhaal, Hope Davis, Gary Houston, Colin Stinton, Roshan Seth
Director: John Madden, James D. Stern
Director: John Madden
Screenwriter: Rebecca Miller
Producer: Jeff Sharp, John N. Hart, Robert Kessel, Alison Owen, Bob Weinstein
Director: James D. Stern
Composer: Stephen Warbeck
Screenwriter: David Auburn
Studio: Miramax Films
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Reviews for Proof
offers a convincing demonstration of the theorem that good writing and sensitive performances can equal an engaging and nuanced piece of cinema.
As a story about personal and family dysfunction, and about coming to terms with life's uncertainties, Proof isn't bad.
Proof is something of a puzzle, an all-star drama that has the feel of a Sunday afternoon film. Think curiosity, not must see.
Intense and compelling, Proof is an absorbing film that shows the intricacies of the human mind are as complex as a mathematical equation.
Sure, the play won the Pulitzer Prize, but that doesn't mean it makes a great film, in my opinion. Maybe it just works better on the stage.
A masterpiece before it reached the screen and maybe the highest praise that can be offered in celebration of this film version is that it remains one.
For patient viewers, it does offer a carefully considered and ultimately inspiring examination of how the need for order and logic is less important than a willingness to embrace chaos.
It's a quiet kind of triumph. I know no one saw it but I hope more people will.
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