Movie #274 "Proof" still has a socko high point like the one in the stage play, but in everything else, I preferred the play ever so much more -- esp. Mary Louise Parker (the Weeds girl) who gets across the manicness of the devoted daughter ever so much better ---- Anthony Hopkins is a good dad and Hope Davis plays a wonderful evil sister, but I remember the show only allows her two scenes to get that across and the girl who played her in the play did wonderfully showing that underneath she wasn't that evil --- all around I was moved so much more by the play, but that could be that the play was live. And that's what I would always prefer. I recommend this for those who never get to see the stage version. Good story told in a powerful way. Oh, gotta say this is one of the best performances I've seen Jake Gyllenhaal in (October Sky beats it, of course) and better hands down than the guy I saw on stage. This was a memorable performance by Jake!
Average rating: 3.262
I'd give it a 3.3
Proof
(2005) PG-13
A devoted daughter (Gwyneth Paltrow) comes to terms with the death of her father (Anthony Hopkins), a brilliant mathematician whose genius was crippled by mental instability, in this John Madden-directed drama based on a Tony-winning play. Along the way, she's forced to face her own dark fears. But she has help from one of her father's former students (Jake Gyllenhaal), who searches through the dead man's papers for the source of his brilliance.
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