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Atmospheric Clever Contemplative Offbeat Sentimental Sincere Touching Bittersweet
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Benign Alien Mysterious Character Psychological Doctors and Patients Mind and Soul Space and Aliens Power Relations
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Drama Mystery Sci-Fi Independent
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Contemporary 21st Century
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New York USA Mental Institution
Style:
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K-Pax, 2001

Starring: Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges

Directed by: Iain Softley

Written by: Charles Leavitt

Language: English

Country: USA, Germany

Runtime: 120 min

MPAA Rating: PG_13

Rating:7.3

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The mood of K-Pax is atmospheric, bittersweet, and clever. The plot centers around benign aliens, doctors and patients, and a mysterious character. It is a drama, mystery, and independent movie. Stylistically, K-Pax is talky. In approach, it is serious. It takes place, at least partly, in a mental institution. K-Pax is set in New York. It happens in contemporary times. It is based on a book.

Summary of K-Pax

A mysterious man (Kevin Spacey) shows up in Grand Central Station claiming to be an alien, and is promptly taken to a mental institution. When he doesn't respond to medication, he begins seeing a psychiatrist (Jeff Bridges) who is fascinated by him. The man calls himself Prot (rhymes with "boat"), and tells the doctor about life on his home planet, K-Pax. When he learns of Prot's ability to see ultraviolet light, and his savant-like knowledge of astronomy, the psychiatrist, despite his skepticism, begins to believe. But his continuing obsession with the man begins to bring out deeper issues, and Bridges' character is compelled to question whether his patient is a visitor from another world, or simply a deeply disturbed man. Based on the novel of the same title by Gene Brewer, the film is directed by Iain Softley. More than a science-fiction tale, K-Pax is a reflection on the way we live our lives, the things we think we know, and the connection of one human being to another. Spacey gives his usual believable, complex performance, and Bridges is exceptional in the role of a man torn by what he knows and what he wants to believe.

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Language:	English
Country:	USA, Germany
Release date:	22 October 2001
Runtime:	120 min

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Kevin Spacey

as Prot

Jeff Bridges

as Dr. Mark Powell

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San Francisco Chronicle

This is a tour-de-force performance, delivered by an actor at the top of his game, and it's a shame that K-Pax, instead of engaging our imaginations as it promises to, devolves into such a conventional, paint-by- numbers disappointment. Full Review

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by: Edward Guthmann

Entertainment Weekly

I rather like the whole mystic- crystal-revelations aspect of K-PAX, and the idea that even a psychiatrist of Jeff Bridges' handsome, American substantiality is open to notions of cosmic improbability. Full Review

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by: Lisa Schwarzbaum

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I love this movie

Well, is he an alien or not? We will never know for sure, unless... mister Iain Softley, please make a sequel! I never saw Kevin Spacey give a better performance than the one he gives here. This enigmatic movie is touching, atmospheric and... Read and rate it

20.August.2008
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by: fletcher.munson
fletcher.munson rated this movie9/10Amazing

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