DVD 123 min. IMDB 7.1

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Drama

Kevin Spacey	Prot
Jeff Bridges	Dr. Mark Powell
Mary McCormack	Rachel Powell
Alfre Woodard	Claudia Villars
David Patrick Kelly	Howie
Saul Williams	Ernie
Peter Gerety	Sal
Celia Weston	Mrs. Archer
Ajay Naidu	Dr. Chakraborty
Tracy Vilar	Maria

Regisseur	Iain Softley
Producent	Gene Brewer; Robert F. Colesberry
Schrijver	Gene Brewer; Charles Leavitt

The 1995 novel by Charles 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