ake an Academy Award-wining actress, a knighted co-star, a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and a celebrated director. The result? Some very high expectations, to say the least. That's certainly the case for Proof. The film, starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Anthony Hopkins, is a reunion of sorts between the actress and director John Madden (the pair weaved Oscar gold in 1999 with Shakespeare in Love). The story is familiar territory for the two: Madden also directed Paltrow in the London stage production to rave reviews (not surprising for a play that also won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Drama). Proof is the story of Catherine (Paltrow), a young woman who has abandoned her studies to care for her mentally ill father Robert (Hopkins), a former mathematical genius. When Catherine has to deal with the arrival of her long-absent and overbearing sister Claire (Hope Davis), as well as the romantic advances from a former student of her father (Jake Gyllenhaal), she is forced to question how much of her father's madness-or genius-she will inherit. |
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