K-PAX
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Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.
What critics thought
DivisiveCritics were largely cold on K-PAX despite warm audience reception, finding it a derivative and self-serious spiritual drama that leans too heavily on the charisma of Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges to compensate for its thin ideas. The central mystery of whether Prot is an alien or a madman intrigued some, but most critics felt the film never earned the cosmic weight it reaches for.
“I admired how the movie tantalized us with possibilities and allowed the doctor and patient to talk sensibly, if strangely, about the difference between the delusional and that which is simply very unlikely.”
Roger Ebert·Chicago Sun-Times
“K-PAX is a draggy, earnest exercise in pseudo-spiritual uplift, recycling romantic hokum about extra-terrestrial life and mental illness with wide-eyed sincerity.”
A. O. Scott·The New York Times
“K-PAX' gives off a great deal of light but generates little heat in a drama that aspires to cosmic themes but ends up with plain, comforting homilies.”
Robert Koehler·Variety
“this misguided movie is shackled by its own overreaching sense of importance and foggy earnestness.”
Claudia Puig·USA Today
Parents guide
- Violence
- mild
- Sex
- none
- Profanity
- mild
- Substances
- mild
- Intensity
- moderate
Genres
Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Cast & Crew
Iain SoftleyDirector
Jeff BridgesDr. Mark Powell
Kevin SpaceyProt
Mary McCormackRachel Powell
Alfre WoodardClaudia Villars
David Patrick KellyHowie
Saul WilliamsErnie
Peter GeretySal
Celia WestonMrs. Archer
Ajay NaiduDr. Chakaraborty
Tracy VilarMaria
John Toles-BeyRussell
Edward ShearmurComposer
Charles LeavittWriter
John MathiesonCinematographyK-PAX
Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.
What critics thought
DivisiveCritics were largely cold on K-PAX despite warm audience reception, finding it a derivative and self-serious spiritual drama that leans too heavily on the charisma of Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges to compensate for its thin ideas. The central mystery of whether Prot is an alien or a madman intrigued some, but most critics felt the film never earned the cosmic weight it reaches for.
“I admired how the movie tantalized us with possibilities and allowed the doctor and patient to talk sensibly, if strangely, about the difference between the delusional and that which is simply very unlikely.”
Roger Ebert·Chicago Sun-Times
“K-PAX is a draggy, earnest exercise in pseudo-spiritual uplift, recycling romantic hokum about extra-terrestrial life and mental illness with wide-eyed sincerity.”
A. O. Scott·The New York Times
“K-PAX' gives off a great deal of light but generates little heat in a drama that aspires to cosmic themes but ends up with plain, comforting homilies.”
Robert Koehler·Variety
“this misguided movie is shackled by its own overreaching sense of importance and foggy earnestness.”
Claudia Puig·USA Today
Parents guide
- Violence
- mild
- Sex
- none
- Profanity
- mild
- Substances
- mild
- Intensity
- moderate
Genres
Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Cast & Crew
Iain SoftleyDirectorJeff BridgesDr. Mark PowellKevin SpaceyProtMary McCormackRachel PowellAlfre WoodardClaudia VillarsDavid Patrick KellyHowieSaul WilliamsErniePeter GeretySalCelia WestonMrs. ArcherAjay NaiduDr. ChakarabortyTracy VilarMariaJohn Toles-BeyRussellEdward ShearmurComposerCharles LeavittWriterJohn MathiesonCinematographyRent & Buy