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Proof
       
  Release Date: 09/23/05 (Future Release)

Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, Anthony Hopkins, Jake Gyllenhaal, Hope Davis, Gary Houston

Director: John Madden

Rating: (PG-13)
 
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Genre
  Drama
   
  Running Time
  99 min
   
  Distributor
  Miramax Films
   
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NEW YORK VIEW
Based on the Pulitzer Prize–winning play by David Auburn, director John Madden’s hermetic adaptation follows a young woman (Gwyneth Paltrow) who struggles to come to terms with the death of her genius mathematician father (Anthony Hopkins). Co-stars Hopkins, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Hope Davis, surprisingly, never click together, but Paltrow delivers the most raw and heartrending performance of her career.

CINEMASOURCE SYNOPSIS
A devoted daughter comes to terms with the death of her father, a brilliant mathematician whose genius was crippled by mental insanity, forcing her to face her own long-harbored fears and emotions. She adjusts to his death with the help of one of her father's former mathematical students, who searches through her father's notebooks in the hope of discovering a bit of his old brilliance. While she comes to terms with the possibility that his genius, which she has inherited, may come at a painful price, her estranged sister arrives to help settle their father's affairs.