Proof

 

Proof 2005

• Director:  John Madden
• Seen by this director: Hotel Marigold 1&2, Shakespeare in Love, Mrs Brown
• Based on the book: no
• Cast: Gwyneth Paltrow, Jake Gyllenhaal, Anthony Hopkins, Hope Davis
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Gwyneth Paltrow – Mortdecai, Thanks for Sharing, Avengers, Contagion, Two Lovers, Iron Man, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Shakespeare in Love, Sliding Doors
• Jake Gyllenhaal - Life, Everest, Prisoners, Source Code, Zodiac, Day After Tomorrow, Moonlight Mile, The Good Girl, Donnie Darko
• Anthony Hopkins – Thor, The Wolfman, Bobby, The Human Stain, Titus, Meet Joe Black, Amistad, Surviving Picasso, Remains of the Day, Dracula, Howards End, Silence of the Lambs, 84 Charing Cross Road, Othello, The Elephant Man
• Hope Davis -  Genova, The Weather Man, About Schmidt
• Why? I remember it as being good.
• Seen: Once before. Now 6 August 2023      

       Catherine (Paltrow), aged 27, is going a little crazy after her father (Hopkins), a genius mathematician, who really was crazy, dies at the age of 63.

       His doctoral student Hal (Gyllenhaal) tries to help her in her grief. Her sister Claire (Davis), a successful NY currency analyst, comes to Chicago for the funeral and worries that Catherine has not only inherited the father’s genius for mathematics, but his insanity as well, which she probably has.

       Who would have guessed that a film (originally a play) about an extremely complex and revolutionary mathematical proof could be so enthralling? Paltrow gives her strongest performance. 

4 ½ * of 5