K-PAX moviie storyline. Claiming to be an extraterrestrial from a planet called ‘K-PAX’ about one thousand light years away in the Lyra constellation, Prot (rhyming with the word “goat”, played by Kevin Spacey) is committed to the Psychiatric Institute of Manhattan where psychiatrist Mark Powell (Jeff Bridges) begins to evaluate him as a delusional. However, Prot’s unwavering ability to provide cogent answers to questions about himself, K-PAX, and its civilization leads Dr. Powell to introduce him to a group of astrophysicists, where Prot claims to have journeyed to Earth by means of “light-travel” and goes on to display rare knowledge that resolves a puzzle for them.
After Prot explains that his people do not live in families, Dr. Powell invites Prot to his home for a July fourth picnic. Prot translates for the dog, eats, learns about Dr. Powell’s family problems, and plays with the children until the sprinkler turns on and he freaks out. Prot exhibits considerable influence over the other patients at the Institute, each of whom believes unquestioningly that he is indeed from K-PAX. Prot has explained that he can take one person with him when he returns; thereafter most of the patients at the institute ask to be taken to K-PAX.
Upon learning that many of his patients expect to leave Earth on July 27, Dr. Powell confronts Prot, who explains that it is a predetermined date. However, Powell believes this to be a significant date in Prot’s life, a day on which he suffered a severe psychological trauma. Powell then decides to subject Prot to regression hypnosis, which works well. Using information gained from these sessions, Powell figures out that Prot is actually Robert Porter, a man presumed dead since attempting suicide after his wife and daughter were murdered in 1996.
K-PAX is a 2001 American science fiction-mystery film based on Gene Brewer’s 1995 novel of the same name, directed by Iain Softley, starring Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges, Mary McCormack and Alfre Woodard. Brewer’s novel and the subsequent film are uncredited adaptations of the 1986 Argentinian film Man Facing Southeast by director, Eliseo Subiela. The film is about a psychiatric patient who claims to be an alien from the planet K-PAX. During his treatment, the patient demonstrates an outlook on life that ultimately proves inspirational for his fellow patients and especially for his psychiatrist.
K-PAX (2001)
Directed by: Iain Softley
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges, Mary McCormack, Alfre Woodard, David Patrick Kelly, Saul Williams, Peter Gerety, Celia Weston, Ajay Naidu, Tracy Vilar, Melanee Murray
Screenplay by: Gene Brewer, Charles Leavitt
Costume Design by: Louise Mingenbach
Set Decoration by: Cheryl Carasik
Art Direction by: Alec Hammond
Makeup Department: Carrie Angland, Teresa M. Austin, Susan A. Cabral
Music by: Sheryl Crow, John Mathieson
Distributed by: Universal Pictures
Release Date: October 26, 2001
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