Proof |  | Director: John Madden
Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jake Gyllenhaal, Hope Davis, Roshan Seth
Studio: Miramax
Category: DVD
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Rating:  107 reviews
Sales Rank: 8850
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 100 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 4136600
ISBN: 0788867644
UPC: 786936296303
EAN: 9780788867644
ASIN: B00005JNM3
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
Release Date: February 14, 2006
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| • | 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 bri |
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Elegantly 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
Product Description
THE DAUGHTER OF A BRILLIANT & MENTALLY DISTURBED MATHMATICIAN, 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 & HER ESTRANGED SISTER WHO SHOWS UP TO HELP SETTLE HIS AFFAIRS.
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 Not About Math December 8, 2009
Jazz Hermit (Tucson, AZ United States)
This is a movie about a young woman who's life has been put on hiatus while she cares for her mentally ill father. As she follows in her father's foosteps as a mathematician she fears that she will follow him into insanity as well. Add a condescending and somewhat meddlesome older sister and you have the emotional framework of the movie. In my humble opinion the story, the whole story, is about the struggle to regain her identity after her father passes away. Will she be able to finally start her life or will she sink into the same madness as her father? A groundbreaking mathematical proof can validate her abilities but will it doom her to her father's madness. At the end of the movie you are left with the hope that she's back in command of everything and that the proof she wrote will propel her to greatness and not madness.
One last thing, the director's commentary was as dry, boring and insulting as any I've ever heard. The director prattles on, pointing out the obvious, and acting like the audience couldn't have possibly understood it. I came away with the impression that his understanding of the story was shallow at best.
"Proof" and "Doubt" - (not identical) twin producitons February 12, 2009
hawthorne wood (santa fe, new mexico)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
After we saw this movie, my husband and I both agreed that "Proof" and "Doubt" are twin (if not identical) productions, and would make a great theater/film class assignment: examining the themes of both works, how the characters were similar, etc. It's interesting to note, as well, that the title of both works have just five letters. Loved it! Gwyneth, Jake and Hope were insanely fantastic in their strange, riveting, sometimes irritating roles.
 A Beautiful Mind - Again September 8, 2008
Bradley F. Smith (Miami Beach, FL)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
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.
 Just bad June 18, 2008
ehab_pen_amazon
3 out of 11 found this review helpful
If you are a mathematician, you will hate this movie -- nothing in it will remind you of the math world you know. Just think a minute: How many people in your math department look like Gwyneth Paltrow? Or even Jake Gyllenhaal? That should give you a hint to how realistic this movie is.
I found the movie so frustrating, I had to turn it off after about 20 minutes. Examples:
High-school-level conversation about insanity between two people who are both supposed to be exceptional mathematicians.
Ridiculous back-and-forth between Paltrow and Gyllenhaal where they keep changing attitudes and even personalities. I know it's based on a stage play, but couldn't they calm it down a bit for the screen?
Lazy screenplay shorthand for bossy woman: talking on cell phone about china patterns while walking through airport. Grrrr!
And finally, what made me shut it off: That insane conversation between Paltrow and Hope Davis, where one thinks the other is hallucinating for no apparent reason.
Spare me! Spare yourselves.
Great acting May 13, 2008
ELF (Chapel Hill, NC USA)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Gwyneth Paltrow is great in Proof. She appears depressed, creative, brilliant, vulnerable, etc. as the genius-level daughter of a brilliant father. This is the best work I've ever seen her do. Better than Shakespeare in Love, the film that won her an Oscar. This role seems like it would be far harder to pull off than most, but Ms. Paltrow's performance is fluid, flawless, committed, and carries a subtle sense of humor throughout. Realistic and inspirational story.
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