Official Movie Website Theatrical Release 09/23/05 Home Video 02/14/06 MPAA Rating Rated PG-13 for some sexual content, language and drug references Running Time 1 hour 39 minutes Genre Drama Director John Madden Cast Gwyneth Paltrow, Anthony Hopkins, Jake Gyllenhaal, Hope Davis Studio Miramax Films |
PROOF
SYNOPSIS
Things that are intangible are hard to prove -
sanity, love, and faith. John Madden's Proof tests
these very issues.
Proof is the compelling story of an enigmatic
young woman haunted by her father's past and
the shadow of her own future, exploring the links
between genius and madness, the tender
relationships between fathers and daughters and
the nature of truth and family.
On the eve of her twenty-seventh birthday,
Catherine (Paltrow), a young woman who has
spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable
father, a mathematical genius named Robert
(Hopkins), must deal not only with the arrival of
her estranged sister, Claire (Davis), but also with
the attentions of Hal (Gyllenhaal), a former
student of her father's who hopes to find valuable
work in the 103 notebooks of Robert's.
-- © Miramax
Things that are intangible are hard to prove -
sanity, love, and faith. John Madden's Proof tests
these very issues.
Proof is the compelling story of an enigmatic
young woman haunted by her father's past and
the shadow of her own future, exploring the links
between genius and madness, the tender
relationships between fathers and daughters and
the nature of truth and family.
On the eve of her twenty-seventh birthday,
Catherine (Paltrow), a young woman who has
spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable
father, a mathematical genius named Robert
(Hopkins), must deal not only with the arrival of
her estranged sister, Claire (Davis), but also with
the attentions of Hal (Gyllenhaal), a former
student of her father's who hopes to find valuable
work in the 103 notebooks of Robert's.
-- © Miramax
BRENDA
An Adaptation of David Auburn's award-winning Broadway play about a young woman Catherine
(Gwyneth Paltrow) coping with mental illness. She dropped out of Northwestern University to
care for her genius mathematician father,Robert (Anthony Hopkins), who was suffering from
dementia. She refused to allow her father to be institutionalized and wanted him to remain at
home with the things he loved. She feared that she had inherited his madness just as she had
inherited her father's proficiency in math. Her sister, Claire (Hope Davis), arrives from New York
for the funeral with every intention of taking her disturbed sister back with her. Hal (Jake
Gyllenhaal) was Robert's former student and is now a math teacher at the University of Chicago is
a frequent visitor at the house. Hal hopes to look through Robert's notebooks and find some
amazing mathematical revelation. He finds one that seems to include a brilliant new proof, a
monumental event if it's true. Did Robert or Catherine write it? Proof without question is
Paltrow's movie. This is the second time she has teamed up with Director John Madden. Last
time she won an Academy Award for Best Actress in Shakespear in Love. Will history repeat
itself?
An Adaptation of David Auburn's award-winning Broadway play about a young woman Catherine
(Gwyneth Paltrow) coping with mental illness. She dropped out of Northwestern University to
care for her genius mathematician father,Robert (Anthony Hopkins), who was suffering from
dementia. She refused to allow her father to be institutionalized and wanted him to remain at
home with the things he loved. She feared that she had inherited his madness just as she had
inherited her father's proficiency in math. Her sister, Claire (Hope Davis), arrives from New York
for the funeral with every intention of taking her disturbed sister back with her. Hal (Jake
Gyllenhaal) was Robert's former student and is now a math teacher at the University of Chicago is
a frequent visitor at the house. Hal hopes to look through Robert's notebooks and find some
amazing mathematical revelation. He finds one that seems to include a brilliant new proof, a
monumental event if it's true. Did Robert or Catherine write it? Proof without question is
Paltrow's movie. This is the second time she has teamed up with Director John Madden. Last
time she won an Academy Award for Best Actress in Shakespear in Love. Will history repeat
itself?
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