Proof

About Proof

Catherine is a woman in her late twenties who is strongly devoted to her father, Robert, a brilliant and well-known mathematician whose grip on reality is beginning to slip away. As Robert descends into madness, Catherine begins to wonder if she may have inherited her father's mental illness along with his mathematical genius.

John Madden's Proof is a 2005 mystery film. Its themes are mental illness, paranoia, disturbed, and illness.

Gwyneth Paltrow takes the lead as Catherine Llewellyn, Anthony Hopkins as Robert Llewellyn, Jake Gyllenhaal as Harold 'Hal' Dobbs, and Hope Davis as Claire Llewellyn. It runs 100 minutes and was released in September 2005.

The screenplay is by David Auburn and Rebecca Miller. Produced by Inside Track. It streams on fuboTV, Paramount+ Amazon Channel, and Paramount Plus Essential in the United States.

A Beautiful Mind, Pi, and Color of Night make useful companions to Proof, all filed under mathematician and mathematics. TMDB voters put it at 6.3 out of 10 across 767 votes and it carries a PG-13 rating.