Proof
by John Madden
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Actor: Gary Houston, Gwyneth Paltrow, Hope Davis, Jake Gyllenhaal, Roshan SethDirector: John Madden
Brand: Buena Vista Home Video
Cinematographer: Alwin K?chler
Composer: Stephen Warbeck
Editor: Mick Audsley
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 99 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-02-14
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Miramax
Movie Reviews of Proof
Movie Review: A Beautiful Mind - Again
Summary: 3 Stars
Adaptation of a play with little action, but some decent dialogue. Gwyneth Paltrow plays a crazy daughter of a crazy math genius. The 'proof' is a math term. I was entertained, but this is fairly forgettable stuff. The sister has some nice moments playing down to the crazy one. You won't laugh and you won't cry.
Summary of Proof
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.System Requirements:Running Time 99 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?CHILDREN/FAMILY Rating:?PG-13 UPC:?786936296303 Manufacturer No:?04136600Elegantly adapted from David Auburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Proof works on so many levels that it shines like a perfected equation. Gwyneth Paltrow previously played her role onstage, and returns here as Catherine, the troubled 27-year-old daughter of Robert, a once-brilliant mathematician (Anthony Hopkins, appearing in flashbacks and imagined visions) who has recently died. What Robert has left behind is an emotionally challenging legacy of genius, mental illness, and unfinished business in the Chicago home where Catherine had cared for him during his erratic final years. Catherine fears she may have inherited her father's unstable condition, and her sister Claire (Hope Davis) arrives from New York with smothering concern and a selfish but well-meaning agenda, while Robert's student and assistant Hal (Jake Gyllenhaal) hopes to find lasting proof of Robert's enduring genius in the piles of notebooks he left behind. Steeped in the authentic atmosphere of advanced academia, revelations of love, fear, regret, and potential recovery unfold with such graceful complexity that Proof plays like a thriller, with all the action taking place in the admirable hearts and minds of its characters. The film also has a lot to say about the potential tragedy of assuming mental illness where none exists, while leaving just enough doubt to keep you wondering -- a tribute to the exceptional performances of a first-rate cast, and particularly to Paltrow, whose reunion with Shakespeare in Love director John Madden proves equally rewarding for entirely different reasons. --Jeff Shannon
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