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Proof is a 2005 film starring Anthony Hopkins, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Jake Gyllenhaal. The movie was directed by John Madden, who also directed Paltrow in Shakespeare in Love (1998). Proof was written by David Auburn (who also wrote Proof, the play on which the film is based) and Rebecca Miller. University of Chicago mathematics professor Paul Sally served as academic consultant. The movie was first shown on September 16, 2005. The DVD was released on February 14, 2006.

Plot

The Internet Movie database writes, "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 in order 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.

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