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Proof - Gwyneth Paltrow, Anthony Hopkins, Jake Gyllenhaal, John Madden

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The biggest risk in life is not taking one.

Based on the Broadway stage play by David Auburn, this is the story of Catherine (Gwyneth Paltrow), an enigmatic young woman who faces the challenges of a genius father, her manipulative sister, an unexpected suitor and a mysterious mathematical proof only to realise that love is the most complex equation of all.

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Film romance thriller drama mathematics father daughter proof sanity

Persons of interest

Gwyneth Paltrow .... Catherine
Anthony Hopkins .... Robert
Hope Davis .... Claire
Jake Gyllenhaal .... Hal
Gary Houston .... Professor Jay Barrow
Anne Wittman .... Joann
Daniel Hatkoff .... Student
Colin Stinton .... Physicist at party
Leigh Zimmerman
David Auburn .... Playwright
David Auburn .... Screenwriter
Rebecca Miller .... Screenwriter
John Madden .... Director

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Awards and film festivals:

Hollywood Foreign Press Association (Golden Globes) 2005: Nominated: Actress In A Leading Role - Drama (Gwyneth Paltrow)
London Film Festival 2005: Film on the Square
Toronto International Film Festival 2005: Screening
Tokyo International Film Festival 2005: Special Screening
Venice Film Festival 2005: In competition

See also A beautiful mind
Studios and distributors:

Miramax * Buena Vista International

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Special Agent Matti

Theatrical report

When I was 13 I created a mathematical proof. Remember the Theorem of Pythagoras?

In any right triangle, the area of the square whose side is the hypotenuse (the side of the triangle opposite the right angle) is equal to the sum of the areas of the squares of the other two sides. - Wikipedia

My theorem did it around the other way: that if you add the two right angle sides, square them, halve the result, round up to the nearest whole number, find the square root of that result then you get the length of the hypotenuse. It is limited because it only works where the two right angle sides have a difference of 1, but it works. I guess that makes me a genius, or at least a really good lateral thinker. Unfortunately there was no-one as clever as me working at Miramax because Proof is pretty boring.

In A beautiful mind Russell Crowe's delusions were part of the world and at odds with the world ("the world" being the consensus reality). That gave the story conflict. Conflict equals entertainment. In Proof, Gwyneth Paltrow's delusions were outside the world. That gives here a little holiday from the world. Little holidays do not equal conflict do not equal entertainment.

The best that can be said about this film is that it's romantic, Jake Gyllenhaal is gorgeously romantic (in the "for better or worse" sense of romance) and Gwyneth Paltrow is dramatic. If you're not into that, see something else.