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. When Robert's work reveals a mathematical proof of potentially historic proportions, it sets off shock waves in more ways than one.
There are argumentative and bitchy characters in lots of movies, but Gwyneth Paltrow makes her character infuriating to watch and listen to. I almost couldn't handle it and got a strong urge to turn it off after about 15 minutes. Towards the end of the movie Jake Gyllenhaal's character tells her there is nothing wrong with her... I don't know about that. I wasn't surprised to read after watching this that it is based on a play. It has that feel to it with there not being a heap to the plot. 2-2.5 / 5.
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