Proof

Proof

The biggest risk in life is not taking one.

2005100 min6.3 / 10

A tense, melancholic psychological drama about a woman grappling with her father's mental decline and her own fear of inherited madness, grounded in intimate family conflict and existential dread.

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.

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