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Proof

Proof

Actor(s): Hugo Weaving, Genevieve Picot, Russell Crowe, Heather Mitchell, Jeff Walker
Director(s): Jocelyn Moorhouse
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Movie Details

MPAA Rating: R
Content Advisory: Nudity, Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Profanity
Movie Release: 1991
DVD Release: 11/02/2004
Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV - Closed Captioned
Audio Tracks: English
Subtitles: English, Spanish
SwapaDVD Credits: 1
Number of Discs: 1
Run Time: 1 hrs 26 mins
Studio: New Line Home Video
Members Wishing: 7
Genres: Comedy Drama, Black Comedy, Psychological Drama

DVD Synopsis

Jocelyn Moorhouse's feature-film debut is a jet-black comedy starring Hugo Weaving as Martin, a paranoid blind man, made so because he is convinced that his mother, when he was a child, lied to him about the sights she described to him. As an adult, Martin is reclusive and ill-tempered. Perversely, Martin is also a photographer -- he takes the pictures, has them developed, asks friends to describe the pictures to him, and then labels them in Braille to make sure no one is tricking him. His housekeeper, Celia (Genevieve Picot), is also a photographer. Obsessed with Martin, she papers the walls of her home with pictures of him. But this obsession doesn't carry through to their relationship, which is a far from cordial one -- Celia torments Martin and Martin humiliates her. One day at a restaurant, after a nasty confrontation with a waitress who ignores him, Martin makes friends with the dishwasher, Andy (Russell Crowe). Martin invites him home to describe his photographs to him. Back at Martin's home, Andy meets Celia and he immediately falls in love with her. Jealous of Andy, Celia seduces him in an effort to discredit Andy with Martin and drive Martin into her arms. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide

Actors

Hugo Weaving - Martin
Genevieve Picot - Celia
Russell Crowe - Andy
Heather Mitchell - Martin's Mother
Jeff Walker - Young Martin


Member Movie Reviews

Mary C. (librariansrule) wrote on 2/14/2009...

1 of 1 member(s) found this review helpful.
This is an excellent little unpretentious film starring a young but quite talented Russell Crowe. I'm not a big fan of Hugo Weaving, but he did very well here. I had never seen Ms. Picot before this film, she's great--scheming and sad at the same time. Not nearly as convoluted or as soap-opera-ey as the Synopsis makes it sound (one could wish a little less was given away in the syn.-- it's much more interesting to find it out for yourself). Three confused people collide.....the painful bits make you ache and the slapstick bits make you laugh till you cry...


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