
Catherine is a woman in her late twenties who is strongly devoted to her father, Robert, a brilliant and well-known mathematician whose grip on reality is beginning to slip away. As Robert descends into madness, Catherine begins to wonder if she may have inherited her father's mental illness along with his mathematical genius. When Robert's work reveals a mathematical proof of potentially historic proportions, it sets off shock waves in more ways than one.... (Full plot summary below)
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Catherine is a woman in her late twenties who is strongly devoted to her father, Robert, a brilliant and well-known mathematician whose grip on reality is beginning to slip away. As Robert descends into madness, Catherine begins to wonder if she may have inherited her father's mental illness along with his mathematical genius. When Robert's work reveals a mathematical proof of potentially historic proportions, it sets off shock waves in more ways than one.
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| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertAn extraordinary thriller... The film centers on two remarkable performances, by Gwyneth Paltrow and Hope Davis. |
| Greenwich Village GazetteEric Lurio'm going to make a prediction and you can hold me to it: Gwyneth Paltrow is going to get an Oscar nomination. No ifs ands or buts. She's going to get one, and she deserves it. |
| Rolling StonePeter TraversMadden directed Paltrow in the play on the London stage, but he does his "Shakespeare in Love" goddess no favors by filling the screen with big close-ups that betray the theatrical origins of the piece and drain the movie of life and urgency. Proof hasn't been filmed at all -- it's been embalmed. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsMadden honors the play's roots; he has not made the mistake of opening it up with a lot of obvious visual expansions. But the story's genial unpretentiousness has been darkened and weighed down, and what's left is less than prime. |
| Time OutWally HammondSadly, the impact of the clever parallelogram of emotional and philosophical concerns in Auburn and Rebecca Miller's screenplay is deadened by the director's overly literal -- mechanical -- cinematic interpretation. |
| Sacramento News & ReviewJim LaneDirector John Madden's emotionally rich, intellectually exciting Proof is a throwback to a time when Pulitzer Prize-winning plays routinely were made into movies. |
| CompuserveHarvey S. KartenFor adults who can appreciate the intellectual qualities as well as the emotional power. |
| Salt Lake TribuneSean P. MeansPaltrow and Davis give remarkable performances... [but] Hopkins, playing a man dealing with his mental decline, is overly imperious, too much lion and not enough winter. |
| CinerinaKarina MontgomeryIt's a quiet kind of triumph. I know no one saw it but I hope more people will. |
| TimeRichard CorlissProof is on the side of the lost, blessed souls. Paltrow, as alluring and reassuring as ever, emphasizes the blessedness in the isolation of genius, giving a new dimension to a complex role. New, true and thrilling--she is the Catherine that Proof was waiting for. |