Rating: PG13
Genre:
Drama
Theatrical Release: 10/26/2001(USA)
Release Date: 03/26/2002
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: 5.1/DTS
Run Time: 121 Minutes
Flags: Mild Violence, Adult Situations, Adult Language
Distributor/Studio: Universal Studios
The 1995 novel by
Dr. Gene Brewer becomes this
drama from director
Iain Softley. After a mugging incident at New York's Grand Central Station,
Prot (
Kevin Spacey), a man who claims to be an alien from the planet K-PAX, is turned over to a public mental hospital and the care of
Dr. Mark Powell (
Jeff Bridges). When medication fails to alter
Prot's insistence that he is visiting from another world on a fact-finding mission,
Powell gets more involved with his patient, who seems to have a calming effect on the other residents of his ward. At first convinced that
Prot is a delusional who can be treated,
Powell begins to wonder if his bizarre patient's story is true, particularly after the hospital's doctors find that
Prot possesses the baffling ability to see ultraviolet light. As the date grows nearer when
Prot claims he must leave Earth (a "class BA-III planet"),
Powell becomes increasingly concerned that a psychiatric breakthrough must occur by then.
K-PAX (2001) co-stars
Alfre Woodard and
Mary McCormack.
~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
;)
