Proof

Release Date: 2006-02-14, Rating PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested),

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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 BALL