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Proof
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.
2005 · Directed by John Madden · 100 min · Drama · Mystery · 8 frames
Tagline
The biggest risk in life is not taking one.
Crew
- Screenplay: David Auburn, Rebecca Miller
- Cinematography: Alwin H. Küchler
- Edited by: Mick Audsley
- Music: Stephen Warbeck
- Production design: Alice Normington
- Produced by: John N. Hart, Robert Kessel, Alison Owen, Jeffrey Sharp
Cast
- Gwyneth Paltrow as Catherine Llewellyn
- Anthony Hopkins as Robert Llewellyn
- Jake Gyllenhaal as Harold 'Hal' Dobbs
- Hope Davis as Claire Llewellyn
- Danny McCarthy as Cop
- Tobiasz Daszkiewicz as Limo Driver
- Gary Houston as Professor Barrow
- Leigh Zimmerman as Friend at Party
- Colin Stinton as Theoretical Physicist
- Leland Burnett as Band Vocalist
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Miramax, Endgame Entertainment, Hart-Sharp Entertainment, Inside Track
- Budget: $20,000,000
- Box office: $7,535,331
- Themes: paranoia, mathematics, mathematician, proof, dementia, notebook, campus, grief, university, illness
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