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K-PAX is a 2001 American-German 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. Synopsis: A psychiatric patient claims to be an alien from the planet K-PAX. During his treatment, the patient demonstrates an outlook ...
0-312-97702-6. OCLC. 45697130. K-PAX is an American science fiction novel by Gene Brewer, the first in the K-PAX series. [1] The series deals with the experiences on Earth of a being named Prot. [1] It is written in the first person from the point of view of Prot's psychiatrist. K-PAX was adapted into a theatrical film of the same name ...
K-PAX takes the old fish-out-of-water structure, and manages to elevate it to a level where it becomes more than just a wacky comedy about a nutty space alien walking among us. The source material has a lot to do with it - it's based on a thoroughly involving novel by former psychiatrist Gene Brewer - but it's the two stars that make K-PAX eminently watchable.
K-PAX: Directed by Iain Softley. With Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges, Mary McCormack, Alfre Woodard. PROT is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a faraway planet named K-PAX.
- (194K)
- Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
- Iain Softley
- 2001-10-26
42. In K-PAX, there are two possible explanations: Prot is crazy. He is truly an alien. There are facts that indicate 1, but also 2. Examples: He seems to respond to hypnosis, has a sort of phobia of water, looks just like his friend and doesn't physically leave.
Jan 1, 2000 · K-PAX Review. Mystery man Prot (Spacey) is detained in a psychiatric hospital where Dr. Powell (Bridges) is fascinated by his claim to be on a mission from K-PAX, a planet 1,000 light years from ...
A series of Science Fiction novels written by Gene Brewer, who also narrates the books in the first person as the protagonist, H. G. Wells-style.The books follow the so-called "Dr. Brewer's" experiences with prot, note a supposedly delusional yet extremely convincing mental patient who looks like an ordinary, affable man but claims to be an extraterrestrial from a planet called "K-PAX".
