Proof (2005)
The daughter of a brilliant but mentally disturbed mathematician, recently deceased, tries to come to grips with her possible inheritance: his insanity. Complicating matters are one of her father's ex-students, who wants to search through his papers, and her estranged sister, who shows up to help settle his affairs.
28 March 1969, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
24 September 1968, Chicago, Illinois, USA
19 December 1980, Los Angeles, California, USA
23 March 1964, Englewood, New Jersey, USA
31 December 1937, Margam, Port Talbot, West Glamorgan, Wales, UK
1977, Zimbabwe
April 25, 2011
Proof is a smart film, but it tries too hard. It wears its heart on its sleeve, and the pathos becomes a bit much because there is little to balance it out.
September 01, 2009
Timid staging faithful adaptation = no cinema
December 24, 2005
Madden does a competent job transferring the film from stage to screen.
October 03, 2006
full review in Greek
September 30, 2005
The result, like so many stout travellers from stage to screen, is respectable. Stolidly, bloodlessly, yawningly respectable.
February 09, 2006
Sadly, the impact of the clever parallelogram of emotional and philosophical concerns in Auburn and Rebecca Miller's screenplay is deadened by the director's overly literal -- mechanical -- cinematic interpretation.
September 28, 2005
Miscast yet marvelous, Paltrow and the rest of the cast hold you to the movie, even when you intuitively sense something is lacking.
October 01, 2005
Few movies regard the psyche with such sober discernment.
August 20, 2010
A limp, and utterly pointless melodrama that's never as intelligent as it thinks.
September 27, 2006
As a story about personal and family dysfunction, and about coming to terms with life's uncertainties, Proof isn't bad.
November 25, 2006
Madden stages the action with a minimum of imagination and gets a career-worst performance out of Davis in a key role, but the material still sputters to life on the strength of the writing and Paltrow's commitment to the part.
August 02, 2007
offers a convincing demonstration of the theorem that good writing and sensitive performances can equal an engaging and nuanced piece of cinema.
