| | | Based On The Pulitzer Prize Winner
Features: DVD, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 2.35:1, Dolby Digital (5.1); Dolby Surround Sound, Deleted Scenes, Featurette, Commentary
From the acclaimed director of Shakespeare In Love, Proof stars Oscar winners Gwyneth Paltrow (Best Actress, Shakespeare In Love, 1998) and Anthony Hopkins (Best Actor, Silence Of The Lambs, 1991), along with Jake Gyllenhaal (Jarhead, Brokeback Mountain) and Hope Davis (About Schmidt). It's a powerful story of a young woman haunted by her father's past and the shadow of her own future. Catherine (Paltrow) has devoted years to caring for her brilliant but mentally unstable father, Robert (Hopkins), a mathematical genius. But when his genius slips away, he leaves behind a mystery that affects her life... and her own sanity. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play.
"Two thumbs way up!" Ebert & Roeper
Editor's Note
Gwyneth Paltrow, who won an Oscar for her performance in director John Madden's SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE, teams up again with Madden in PROOF, a poignant drama based on David Auburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Paltrow lights up the screen as Catherine, a young woman who has given up a seemingly bright future in order to take care of her ailing father, Robert (Anthony Hopkins), a formerly brilliant mathematician who went crazy. After he dies, Catherine's closed-off world is invaded by Hal (Jake Gyllenhaal), a young mathematician who worshipped Robert, and Claire (Hope Davis), her successful sister who fears that Catherine is too much like their father--a talented, supremely intelligent person with severe mental problems. During the last years of his life, Robert filled 103 notebooks with his writings, but one of them, written during a brief period of lucidity, could turn the math world on its head, while also threatening Catherine's already wavering sanity. Auburn co-wrote the screenplay with Rebecca Miller (PERSONAL VELOCITY, THE BALLAD OF JACK AND ROSE), taking it off the stage, setting it in and around Chicago, and breathing new life into the story, along with Stephen Warbeck's compelling score and plenty of outstanding acting, particularly by the glowing Paltrow and the earnest Gyllenhaal.
| Features | Deleted Scenes with optional commentary | | From Stage To Screen: The Making Of Proof Featurette | | Director Commentary | | Widescreen Presentation | | Audio: English Dolby Digital (5.1) |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Buena Vista |
| Release Date: 4/28/2009 |
| Running Time: 99 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2005 | | Catalog ID: 4136603 | | UPC: 00786936296303 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Available Subtitles: Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35:1 |
| Cast & Crew | Anthony Hopkins | | Gwyneth Paltrow | | Hope Davis | | Jake Gyllenhaal | | Alice Normington - Production Designer | | Alwin H. Kuchler - Cinematographer | | David Auburn - Based On Play By | | David Auburn, et. al. - Screenplay | | Harvey Weinstein - Executive Producer | | John Hart, et. al. - Producer | | John Madden - Director | | Mick Audsley - Editor | | Stephen Warbeck - Original Music By |
| Awards |
Golden Globe (2006) | | | Gwyneth Paltrow, Nominee, Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama | |
Venice Film Festival (2005) | | | John Madden, Nominee, Golden Lion |
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| | Professional Reviews | Movieline's Hollywood Life
"[T]he story is enormously affecting, and director John Madden guides the four stars to matchless performances." 09/01/2005 p.99USA Today
"PROOF proves undeniably that the intimacy of a stage play can be re-created powerfully on screen....This is a moving portrait of an intense bond between a father and daughter, an eloquent and resonant story about the ties that bind." 09/16/2005 p.6E Entertainment Weekly
"PROOF works because it adds layers of pathos and suspense to its square roots." -- Grade: A- 02/17/2006 p.60-61 Total Film
3 stars out of 5 -- "[A]s a daughter wracked with grief at the death of her father and fearful of having inherited both his genius and condition, Paltrow excels." 07/01/2006 p.103 James Berardinelli's ReelViews 9 of 10
Maybe it's my math/engineering background, but I found Proof to be fascinating both on the stage and on the screen. Actually, appreciation of the film demands little math knowledge (aside from recognizing that a "proof" is a logical set of equations designed to explain and defend the veracity of a theorem). Proof is less about math than it is about the ins-and-outs of intellectual property and the relationships of one women to those around her (father, sister, lover). - James Berardinelli
Chicago Sun-Times 10 of 10
John Madden's Proof is an extraordinary thriller about matters of scholarship and the heart, about the true authorship of a mathematical proof and the passions that coil around it. It is a rare movie that gets the tone of a university campus exactly right, and at the same time communicates so easily that you don't need to know the slightest thing about math to understand it. Take it from me. - Roger Ebert
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