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If this sounds like a miserable experience then I wouldn't recommend taking a trip to see Proof.
The film is an adaptation of a critically acclaimed stage play and boy does it show. Anthony Hopkins plays a brilliant but mentally disturbed mathematician coming who has died leaving many ... Read review
Elegantly adapted from David Auburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning play,Proofworks on so many ... more
levels that it shines like a perfected equation. Gwyneth Paltrow previously played her role onstage, and returns here as Catherine, the troubled 27-year-old daughte...
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Elegantly adapted from David Auburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning play,Proofworks on so many ... more
levels that it shines like a perfected equation. Gwyneth Paltrow previously played her role onstage, and returns here as Catherine, the troubled 27-year-old daughte...
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Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play and directed by Academy Award nominee John ... more
Madden, (Best Director, Shakespeare In Love, 1998), Proof stars Oscar winners Anthony Hopkins (Best Actor, The Silence Of The Lambs, 1991) and Gwyneth Paltrow (best Act...
The biggest risk in life is not taking one.... The daughter of a brilliant but mentally ... more
disturbed mathematician recently deceased tries to come to grips with her possible inheritance: his insanity. Complicating matters are one of her father's ex-stu...
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Director Quentin Tarantino delivers an adrenaline shot to the heart with Death Proof a ... more
peddle to the metal white knuckle ride behind the wheel of a psycho serial killer's roving revving racing death machine. Kurt Russell (Escape from New York The Thing Silkwood) stars as a sociopathic stuntman whose taste for stalking sexy young ladies gets him into big trouble when he tangles with the wrong gang of badass babes. Their confrontation escalates to a hair-raising 18-minute automotive duel with one of the girls strapped to the hood of a thundering Dodge Challenger that will have you on the edge of your seat mile after mile. Referencing some classic chase movies - from H.B. Halicki's self-financed Gone in 60 Seconds which contained a non-stop forty minute car chase to Vanishing Point the nihilistic chase flick to Dirty Mary Crazy Larry a Peter Fonda vehicle - Tarantino once again mixes genres to perfection fusing the chase and slasher flicks and coming up with something truly original. Death Proof is also Tarantino's most linear film: Events are presented chronologically and breaks in time are punctuated with title cards. Though the action is sequential the contents of this unfamiliar structure are no less intriguing than that of any of his previous films. Kurt Russell turns in a superb virtuoso performance in Death Proof as the truly evil devious deranged lunatic Stuntman Mike - a psychotic serial killer and Hollywood stunt double who uses his 'death proof' Chevy to fulfil his murderous lust. Joining Russell as Tarantino's girls are Rosario Dawson (Sin City Rent 25th Hour) Rose McGowan (Planet Terror The Black Dahlia TV's Charmed) and Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Die Hard 4.0 Factory Girl). In addition real-life stuntwoman Zo'ƒ« Bell (Uma Thurman's body double in Kill Bill) playing herself to wonderful effect proves to be more than a match for Stuntman Mike ensuring the film's climax is an exhilarating 100% stunt action triumph - and all done without any use of CGI effects! So if you want to experience the thrill of the ride that is Death Proof and are prepared to have your senses mashed to pulp in the process then you're in for a sadistic treat when the DVD hits the streets.
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Molly Daisy and Gracie are all born of an Aboriginal mother and a white father. Forcibly ... more
removed from their family by the Australian government the girls are taken 1 500 miles to a severe Anglican education camp. There they are trained as domestic servants in order to be 'assimilated' into white society. Molly Craig the oldest of the three leads her younger sister and cousin in a daring escape back to their home and family. The film follows the trio on an epic journey across the breathtaking Australian Outback. A government built rabbit proof fence that stretches from the north to the south of Australia ironically provides the girls with something that they can follow all the way home away from the cruelty of their oppressors.
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Production Year: 1957 - Drama - Director: Leo McCarey - Original Language: English - Classification: Universal - Starring: Cathleen Nesbitt, Deborah Kerr, Cary Grant, Richard Denning, Neva Patterson, Fortunio Bonanova
Production Year: 2004 - Drama - Director: Nick Cassavetes - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over, 12 years and over - Starring: Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, Gena Rowlands
Advantages: Decent Cast Disadvantages: A bit boring, feels tied to it's stage roots
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Proof is a film that definitely shows it's stage roots, as a lot of it doesn't have any cinematic feel. The scenes just serve as verbal sparring between characters. As a drama it's well acted and perfectly serviceable if you go in for that kind of thing. Anthony Hopkins is his usual reliable self, Paltrow just sulks throughout the entire film. Jake Gyllenhaal appears in what must be his 500th film in the last year, as a maths ... ...doesn't feel like a movie, it doesn't enthrall, isn't particularly engrossing and isn't really worth recommending as a cinema visit.
By all means check it out , but Proof is proof that some plays should stay on the boards and not on the screen.
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Imagine yourself standing on your own at a party. You're into football, films and general life. However no one will talk to you as you know nothing about mathematics and everyone else does. So with drink in hand you're forced to listen to countless debate amongst peers over the theory of pi.
If this sounds like a miserable experience then I wouldn't recommend taking a trip to see Proof.
The film is an adaptation of a critically acclaimed stage play and boy does it show. Anthony Hopkins plays a brilliant but mentally disturbed mathematician coming who has died leaving many books of maths theory. His daughter Catherine (Gwyneth Paltrow) is left to contend with the possibility of inheriting his insanity. Her matters are complicated by an ex-student of her father's looking through his books to discover something valid amongst the ramblings. Her sister also shows up to be a pain in the ass.
Proof is a film that definitely shows it's stage roots, as a lot of it doesn't have any cinematic feel. The scenes just serve as verbal sparring between characters. As a drama it's well acted and perfectly serviceable if you go in for that kind of thing. Anthony Hopkins is his usual reliable self, Paltrow just sulks throughout the entire film. Jake Gyllenhaal appears in what must be his 500th film in the last year, as a maths student it's quite hard to believe he's credible. Although his performance is fine, Hope Davis is also adequate but her character is just your big standard workaholic sister.
I really don't know if I liked this movie or not. The more I think about it, the more I feel it was a pointless exercise. Bits of it were ok but it just had that air of being a bit too arty and self-knowing. There is a moment where a band plays a song in relation to a maths problem. To the uninitiated (which is most of us) it's something that passes over our heads. Meanwhile everyone on screen laughs at the genius of it. It's moments like this, which I hate in films, it's just snobby.
Director John Madden handles the drama well but again is limited by a script that doesn't do much to move away from its original roots. The film as a nice look throughout. I also enjoyed the musical score.
To be honest that's all I can really write about about Proof. It just doesn't feel like a movie, it doesn't enthrall, isn't particularly engrossing and isn't really worth recommending as a cinema visit.
By all means check it out , but Proof is proof that some plays should stay on the boards and not on the screen.
Advantages: nice portrayal of emotions Disadvantages: Very slow!
Have read some of the other erviews I wonder if I watched same movie! I will admit that a piece of art worth critical acclaim it isn't but......Its a feel that is dealing more with the issue of a Daughter losing her life to look after her mentally ill father and the agony of seeing him deterioate. To me, it felt as though maths was the secondary subject.
So, Gwyneth Paltrow stars as Cathy, the put up daughter. Her father, Robert )Anthony Hopkins), ... ...Gyllenhall) wants to look through the rambling works of this once great man to see if he had any lucid moments where he struck mathematical gold before falling off the perch. As the story unfolds you understand that Cathy herself had been working on Maths between trying to get her father back good health.
Its not action packed but its certainly a true portrayal of emotion; the need to sometimes put ones life on hold in order to help someone else. ...
jonescraiga 31.10.2008
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Feature Commentary With Director John Madden, From Stage To Screen The Making Of Proof, Deleted Scenes With Optional Commentary
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PROOF works because it adds layers of pathos and suspense to its square roots (Entertainment Weekly, )
The story is enormously affecting, and director John Madden guides the four stars to matchless performances (Movieline's Hollywood Life, )
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 (USA Today, )
DVD Description
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.
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