Proof (2005 film)
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{{Infobox Movie
|movie_name = Proof
|image = Proof poster.jpg
|image caption = Promotional poster for Proof
|director = John Madden
|writer = David Auburn (play),
Rebecca Miller
|starring = Gwyneth Paltrow,
Anthony Hopkins,
Hope Davis
|producer = Alison Owen,
Jeff Sharp
|distributor= Miramax Films
|budget = ~ US$20,000,000
|release_date= 5 September 2005
|runtime = 99 minutes
|movie_language = English
|imdb_id = 0377107
|}}
Proof is a 2005 film starring Anthony Hopkins, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Jake Gyllenhaal. The movie was directed by John Madden, who also directed Shakespeare in Love (1998), and University of Chicago mathematics professor Paul Sally served as academic consultant. The movie was first shown on 16 September 2005.
- Tagline: The biggest risk in life is not taking one.
Plot
The daughter (Paltrow) of a brilliant but mentally disturbed mathematician (Hopkins), recently deceased, tries to come to grips with her possible inheritance - his insanity. Complicating matters are one of her father's ex-students (Gyllenhaal) who wants to search through his papers, and her estranged sister who shows up to help settle his affairs.
Setting
The majority of this film takes place in Hyde Park, a neighborhood on Chicago's South Side. Hopkins' character is a mathematics professor at The University of Chicago. Although many scenes were filmed on the University's campus, the Mathematics building itself (Eckhart) was not used. Instead, many scenes that were supposed to be in the math building were shot in the Divinity School. The film opens with a pan of Gwyneth Paltrow's character bicycling across the Midway Plaisance and shows many scenes in the quadrangle before Harper Library.
External links
- Proof at the Internet Movie Database
