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Genres:
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Drama /
Mystery /
Sci-Fi
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Director:
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Iain Softley
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Actors:
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Melanee Murray,
Kevin Spacey,
Jeff Bridges,
Mary McCormack,
Alfre Woodard,
David Patrick Kelly,
Saul Williams,
Peter Gerety,
Celia Weston,
Ajay Naidu,
Tracy Vilar,
John Toles-Bey,
Kimberly Scott,
Conchata Ferrell,
Vincent Laresca
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Duration:
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120 min.
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Rating:
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(7.3/10)55.5
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Plot Summary:
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Prot is a patient at a conceptual nursing home who claims to be from a far away planet. His psychiatrist tries to arrogate him, no greater than to start out to doubt his own explanations.
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K-PAX
Jeff Bridges and Kevin Spacey star in a warm, emotionally potent drama about a doctor and his patient, who claims he's an extraterrestrial
"Who is it this time? Jesus Christ or Joan Of Arc?" moans Manhattan psychiatrist Mark Powell (Bridges), as his secretary announces the arrival of yet another wacko who needs his attention. Actually, it's an alien, or someone who thinks he is anyway - prot (rhymes with 'goat'; Spacey), a shades-sporting docile fortysomething vagrant who claims to be from the planet K-PAX. He can't be, can he?
Powell begins to wonder at the truth, as medication and therapy appear to have no effect on prot (he doesn't capitalise names), who claims he can travel on a beam of light and has come to compile a report on Earth - a BA-3 Planet, st...
K-PAX
K-PAX is a pleasant enough entertainment raised above its station by the quality of its acting. While the story line gets increasingly questionable, the fact that Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges are taking it seriously makes a good deal of difference. The film's plot device, briskly adapted from Gene Brewer's novel by Charles Leavitt, is familiar. On the one hand, here's a strange gentleman (Spacey) claiming to be a visitor from another planet. On the other, here's a caring psychiatrist (Bridges) who doesn't think that's possible. They both can't be right, but that's where this film is headed, and it becomes a problem.
Bridges, of course, has been down this road before: He starred as a visiting alien in 1984's Starman. Here he moves to the other side of the equati...
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