Plot Synopsis:
From the acclaimed director of Shakespeare in Love and based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Proof stars Gwyneth Paltrow (Avengers franchise) and Anthony Hopkins (Westworld), along with Hope Davis (The Newsroom) and Jake Gyllenhaal (Nightcrawler), in a powerful story of a young woman haunted by her father's past and the shadow of her own future. Catherine (Paltrow) has devoted years to caring for her father, Robert (Hopkins), 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. When Robert's work reveals a mathematical proof of potentially historic proportions, it sets off shock waves that affect both Catherine's life and her own sanity.