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The daughter of a brilliant but mentally disturbed mathematician, recently deceased, tries to come to grips with her possible inheritance: his insanity. Complicating matters are one of her father’s ex-students who wants to search through his papers and her estranged sister who shows up to help settle his affairs.
Proof (2005)
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Rating:
(23,265 votes)
- Taglines:Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning play by David Auburn » Things that are intangible are difficult to prove - sanity, love and faith »
- Runtime:100 minutes
- Director: John Madden
- Country:USA
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Actors: CatherineGwyneth PaltrowRobertAnthony HopkinsHarold Dobbs - HalJake GyllenhaalCopDanny McCarthyClaireHope DavisLimo Driver (as Tobiacz Daszkiewicz)Tobiasz DaszkiewiczProfessor BarrowGary HoustonFriend at PartyAnne WittmanFriend at PartyLeigh ZimmermanTheoretical PhysicistColin Stinton
- Genres:Drama, Mystery
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Producers: Mark Cooperco-producerJulie Goldsteinexecutive producerJohn Hartproducer (as John N Hart Jr.)Billy Higginsline producer: ChicagoMichael Hoganco-executive producerRobert KesselproducerAlison OwenproducerJeff Sharpproducer (as Jeffrey Sharp)James D. Sternexecutive producer (as James D Stern)Bob Weinsteinexecutive producerHarvey Weinsteinexecutive producer
- Plots: The daughter of a brilliant but mentally disturbed mathematician (recently deceased) tries to come to grips with her possible inheritance: his insanity. Complicating matters are one of her father's ex-students who wants to search through his papers and her estranged sister who shows up to help settle his affairs. Written by B.B.
- User's comment:Madden + Paltrow = Something Good. Proof? Proof. by galasius
This film is about death, love, and mental incapacity. There are bound to be endless clichés, comparisons, and parallels drawn with Ron Howard's "A Beautiful Mind", so I won't go there.
In the end, this film is all about Gwyneth Paltrow.
She is on screen at least 80% of this film. Her character dances between mourning, anger, remorse, confusion, fear, vulnerability, sadness, and just a little bit of love. There are very dramatic changes in emotion from moment to moment, and Paltrow pulls it off brilliantly.
Sir Anthony Hopkins role, while relatively small, is crucial to the film. His performance was good, but not great. But it didn't really matter, as Proof is all about Paltrow. Hope Davis and Jake Gyllenhaal also gave solid performances, but their as with Hopkin's role were really nothing more than support Paltrow.
The biggest disappointment for me was the almost total lack of any 'real' mathematics. For a film that revolves around brilliant mathematical proofs, there's an almost painful scarcity of and real math in the film. There are shots of seemingly random equations scrawled across paper or a blackboard, and the odd conversation making reference to some known mathematical law or theorem, but I would have liked more.
IF you want a happy film, go see something else. If you want a mindless film, go see something else. If you want a typical love story, go see something else. If you want an intelligent well written and presented story of substance involving a a character experiencing a roller-coaster of emotions, Proof may be for you.
- Quotes: Catherine: It doesn't fit me.
- Also known as: Доказательство (Russia), A Prova (Brazil), Bizonyítás (Hungary), Dôkaz (Slovakia), Der Beweis (Germany), Dokaz (Serbia - imdb display title), Dowód (Poland - imdb display title), Dukaz (Czech Republic), Kanit (Turkey - Turkish title), La preuve irréfutable (Canada - French title), La prueba (Argentina), La verdad oculta (Proof) (Spain - imdb display title), Proof (Greece), Proof - Entre o Génio e a Loucura (Portugal), Proof - La prova (Italy), Proof of My Life (Japan - English title), Relationship Comes, Count All the Love (Hong Kong - literal English title, Cantonese title), Todiste (Finland - video title), {proof} (International - poster title, English title),
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