Crazy Smart

Caught the new Gwyneth Paltrow/Jake Gyllenhaal/Anthony Hopkins movie, "Proof," which mines the fine line between mathematical genius and insanity.

Paltrow plays an insane/genius woman haunted by her father's insanity/genius.

The drama plays out via a "proof" of an advanced mathematical theorem regarding prime numbers. (They lost me at Algebra II.)

I saw this story when it was first a stage play by the same name on Broadway a few years ago starring Jennifer Jason Leigh. (Paltrow played the role on stage in London.) This is one of the few movies that successfully makes the transition from stage to screen.