• Tagline: The biggest risk in life is not taking one
• Director: John Madden
• Writer: David Auburn
• Release Date: 30 September 2005 (USA)
• MPAA Rating: Rated PG-13 for some sexual content, language and drug references.
• Parents Guide: View content advisory for parents
• Genre: Drama
• Runtime: 100 min
• Box Office #’s: Here
In Chicago, on the day of her twenty-seventh birthday, Catherine receives her sister Claire from New York for the funeral of their father Robert, who passed away a couple of days before. Robert was a brilliant mathematician that became bughouse, and Catherine had lived with him for the last five years, inclusive quitting her studies in the faculty, and she is concerned about having inherited his insanity. The mathematician of the University of Chicago, Hal, is making a research in Robert’s notebooks, trying to find any brilliant proof that Robert might have produced in one moment of lucidity. When Hal has one nightstand with Catherine, she gives a notebook to him with the development of a unique mathematics theory that Catherine claims that she developed. Hal and Claire do not believe on her, until the truth is disclosed.
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Also Starring
• Gwyneth Paltrow … Catherine
• Anthony Hopkins … Robert
Trivia
- Gwyneth Paltrow reprises the role of Catherine that she had played on stage in London’s West End.
- The plot of the original play was based on the life of John Nash, professor at Princeton, who won the Nobel Prize for his work in game theory and also spent many years suffering from schizophrenia. His story was later adapted into A Beautiful Mind (2001).
- The role of Catherine was originated by Mary-Louise Parker in 2000 at the Walter Kerr Theatre in New York. Her performance won her a 2001 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play and a 2001 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play
- Gwyneth Paltrow was pregnant (with Apple) while filming.
- David Auburn’s play “Proof” premiered at the Manhattan Theater Club, New York City, New York, USA in May 2000, and then transferred to the Walter Kerr Theater on 24 October 2000 where it ran for 917 performances. “Proof” won the 2001 Tony Award for the Best Play.
- The play “Proof” won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 2001.
