Proof

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Proof

R,

1992,

1h 26m,

Drama

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94%

16 Reviews

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80%

5,000+ Ratings

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94%

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16 Reviews

80%

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5,000+ Ratings

Martin (Hugo Weaving) is a blind Australian man with trust issues stemming from childhood. Not believing people's descriptions of the world around him, Martin takes photographs to have others describe what they see for comparison, after which he labels the pictures in Braille. The only other person in Martin's life is Celia (Genevieve Picot), his housekeeper, who rearranges the furniture and secretly loves him -- until he meets Andy (Russell Crowe), a dishwasher with a talent for description.

Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Jan 1, 2000

3.5/4

If there is a kind of movie I like better than any other, it is this kind, the close observation of particular lives, perhaps because it exploits so completely the cinema's potential for voyeurism.

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Kathleen Maher

Austin Chronicle

Jan 1, 2000

3.5/4

The hook is charming and better yet, the movie follows through.

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Desson Thomson

Washington Post

Jan 1, 2000

There are adroit little truths everywhere, touching on blindness, cruelty, loneliness, deception and love. Writer/director Jocelyn Moorhouse has a dynamic knack for psychological twists, and for suspense in the unlikeliest of places.

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Annlee Ellingson

CineWomen

Aug 1, 2024

Proof’s lack of clarity is its appeal: a character study inside an enigma that’s never solved — Martin McGrath’s cinematography makes sure of that, positioning the frame so that we don’t know what’s true and what’s a lie.

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Grant Watson

Fiction Machine

Jan 29, 2021

10/10

Its screenplay - by Moorhouse - is an essentially perfect piece of work.

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

May 1, 2011

B

A touching, well acted melodrama

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Poe S

May 5, 2018

A small but interesting Australian production depicting the plight of a blind man and his dilemma of whether he can trust anybody in his world where trust is of foremost importance, since the world he inhabits is dark and depends on other people's eyes. It is simple and effective with the curious early role by Russel Crowe and the soon to be agent Smith Hugo Weaving.

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Rey W

Sep 17, 2017

Hugo Weaving plays a blind man who hires Russell Crowe to be a human audio description track. His super creepy housekeeping stalker becomes jealous at the growing friendship between the two men and sets out to break the pair up.

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Synopsis

Martin (Hugo Weaving) is a blind Australian man with trust issues stemming from childhood. Not believing people's descriptions of the world around him, Martin takes photographs to have others describe what they see for comparison, after which he labels the pictures in Braille. The only other person in Martin's life is Celia (Genevieve Picot), his housekeeper, who rearranges the furniture and secretly loves him -- until he meets Andy (Russell Crowe), a dishwasher with a talent for description.

Director: Jocelyn Moorhouse
Producer: Lynda House
Distributor: Fine Line Features
Production Co: Film Victoria, Australian Film Commission
Rating: R
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 20, 1992, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 15, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $524.3K
Runtime: 1h 26m
Sound Mix: Surround

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