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- 2005
- PG-13
- Miramax
- 1 h 40 m
- 2005
- PG-13
- Miramax
- 1 h 40 m
Summary 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. (Miramax)
Directed By: John Madden
Written By: David Auburn, Rebecca Miller
- 2005
- PG-13
- Miramax
- 1 h 40 m
- 2005
- PG-13
- Miramax
- 1 h 40 m
Proof
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7.0
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Summary 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. (Miramax)
Directed By: John Madden
Written By: David Auburn, Rebecca Miller
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 37 Critic Reviews
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73% Positive
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 37 Critic Reviews
64
73% Positive
27 Reviews
27 Reviews
27% Mixed
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
0% Negative
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It's so fluid and cinematic that it's hard to even envision how the piece worked on stage.
Against considerable odds and despite a shaky start, Proof proves itself in every area.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 22 User Ratings
7.0
55% Positive
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 22 User Ratings
7.0
55% Positive
12 Ratings
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45% Mixed
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Una pelicula brillante, enigmatica y muy bien planeada para mantener al espectador pendiente de lo que iva a suceder. Muy buenas actuacion esteleres en especial de Gwyneth Paltrow y Anthony Hopkins
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Proof – Top Grade
As motion picture studies of mental illness go, Proof would have to be regarded as one of the better attempts. The performances are on target with Paltrow and Hopkins pulling out all stops, bringing their father-daughter character’s personal dilemmas sharply into believable focus. John Madden’s (Mrs Brown ’97) assured direction keeps the details and pace in perfect harmony - while milking the nuances of the excellent screenplay (co-written by David Auburn from his Pulitzer Prize-winning play to full potential, at no time does this ever feel stagey. Proof is as entertaining as it is an intelligent observation of characters on the edge of understood normality - struggling to maintain their grip on reality and maintaining a sense of worth within the realm of society, and in this case, the world of mathematics. Production values are superior, featuring cinematography by Award nominated DOP Alwin H. Küchler - while Oscar-winning composer Stephen Warbeck won the Georges Delerue Award for his fine score. Superior entertainment. Note: An in-context, sex scene makes it more recommended for a mature audience.
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Proof proves undeniably that the intimacy of a stage play can be re-created powerfully on screen.
Engrossing.
The result, like so many stout travellers from stage to screen, is respectable. Stolidly, bloodlessly, yawningly respectable.
Proof isn't just a movie about mathematics; it's a mathematical movie. The scenes may as well have been laid out by diagram.
I wish I could report the arrival of an impressive movie, but this one, for all its ostensibly big ideas about mathematics and wounded minds, struck me as an elaborate pretext for a synthetic love story.
I liked the film most when it's a character drama about a mentally unstable woman. The third act stumbles as it focuses too much on a debate about whether Catherine wrote a notebook---which contains a mathematical proof---or her father.
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Great actors in a movie out of standard due to its excellent script, where Mathematics is the relation that binds the peculiar characters of the plot. Although I am suspect to say because Mathematics is my least exact science! I recommend it though! The main three characters did a spectacular job with the script which has been given to them. "The future of cold is infinite. The future of heat is the future of cold".
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This movie starts out quite promising with Catherine looking back on her past with her dad as she tries to come to terms with his passing... its a little confusing at times as the movie cuts between flashbacks depicting times Catherine spent with her rather madcap, loner father and her sorting out his things and preparing for the funeral - the overlap didn't always seem so clear to me.
I felt that Catherine was someone who seems somehow quite relatable and indeed Gwyneth Paltrow gives a decent performance as her, portraying her quite solidly as both a rather sad and also angry person, angry that perhaps more wasn't done for her dad, more specifically towards her sister who arrives, as she says, some years too late - where were you before?! etc. as well as suspicious and untrusting of her fathers ex-student Harold, although its not just other people that she becomes suspicious of but obviously herself as well, as the movie progresses, though its also true that she mostly keeps this to herself.
I felt that the story took a while to build up, as far as her questioning what she sees written in her fathers many books, with the pivotal scene just (I think) a couple of days prior to the funeral when Harold is about to leave and Catherine stops him from leaving the house and demands that he empty his bag and prove that he hasn't taken any of his fathers belongings, which he denies. As the story builds, the idea that Catherine believes she wrote the pivotal pieces of writing that Harold is so keen to publish in her fathers name is an interesting one, at first she denies that there's anything of any interest to him or to the scientific community at large and then when confronted with said notes, she turns it around and states that he didn't write it, she did but he challenges that the writing seems identical to her fathers writing present in many tens of other notebooks filled with nonsensical, eccentric scribbles (as Harold says, he had some lucid moments where he wrote and those are the key notes that could be of high value to the scienftific community), indeed Harold is so keen to find these initially that he says he's happy to read through every one of the almost hundreds of notebooks just to find them. I'll try not to reveal too much of the plot as I wouldn't want to ruin the story for others but I'm not sure that there is much that can be said without giving away some aspects of it, to be honest.
I didn't feel that this movie was entirely dramatic, although something about the story I did find to be intriguing, the fact that Catherine was secretly doubting herself or her sanity in such a basic way and the fact that she was portrayed quite convincingly - her facial expressions depicting anger and rage as well as confusion, frustration and so on is probably what kept me watching. Hopkins was a good choice to portray Catherines father as he plays a softer role (as it were) as her rather eccentric yet soft/endearing late father, showing that spark of momentary genius at times during the flashback scenes. Yes her father was mentally disturbed but he still comes across as quite human, the use of terms such as mentally disturbed probably still conjur up some extreme ideas and he certainly doesn't come across as someone who would scare little kids or anything like that, he seems quite a nice, quiet man who in one scene challenges Catherines perception of him. There is quite an endearing and somewhat sad scene that shows how perhaps deluded he was involving him sitting outside on a cold day but I won't go into anymore details so as again not to spoil the movie too much (like I say its hard to go into many details without giving away little bits here and there).
Yes I don't feel that this is really an outright drama movie as such in terms of that the story is quite slow to build up I feel and there is/was a point where I wondered where its going, it seemed a little bland, sterile even and so won't be enjoyed by some people, as such I started to lose interest but something about Catherines character ultimately interested me enough to keep me watching. There is a romance sub-plot (as it were) present which I felt was a little bit cheesy and fomulaic, predictable - I think there is a good story behind it but it wasn't really developed well enough somehow, it has some potential and is basically alright but not as good as it maybe could have been.
I felt there was something intriguing/interesting about this movie but somehow it ended up a bit too bland for me. There is something there that is interesting and the movie thankfully didn't fall into the all too common pitfall of lasting way over the two hour mark and becoming way too unecessarily drawn out, even though it did sort of meander a bit, if that makes any sense?.
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Production Company
Miramax,
Endgame Entertainment,
Hart Sharp Entertainment,
Inside Track 1
Release Date Sep 16, 2005
Duration 1 h 40 m
Rating PG-13
Tagline Things that are intangible are difficult to prove - sanity, love and faith
Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Nomination
Women's Image Network Awards
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
Ghent International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
