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In K-PAX, Kevin Spacey portrays an innocuous man detained at Grand Central
Station in the aftermath of a mugging. Jeff Bridges plays a seasoned
psychiatrist at an under-staffed public hospital. Their paths cross when the
police turn Prot (Spacey) over to Dr. Mark Powell (Bridges) after he politely
tells them that the light on their planet is too bright for him - much brighter
than back home on the distant planet K-PAX. Powell has treated plenty of
delusionals in his career, and figures it's only a matter of time before he
cracks Prot's veneer and gets him to talk about what's really going on.
Prot says he's on a fact-finding mission, and patiently explains how his
experiences on earth contrast with life on K-PAX. He finds much to like here,
but says he will go home before the summer ends. As the days before his
announced departure race by, all the patients on the ward vie to go with him.
His descriptions of life on a planet 1000 light years away awaken a sense of
possibility among them.
The patients may feel good, but not Dr. Powell. He is haunted by dark fears for
Prot, and is determined to use every tool at his disposal to discover this
man's truth before it's too late. But as those tools fail him, Powell begins to
doubt things he has accepted as true his entire life. It gets worse when Prot's
claims are put to a group of skeptical astronomers who are confounded by the
things Prot seems to know.
Powell has to ask himself if Prot could somehow be the real thing. He tries to
fight it, but the sense that he must at least admit the possibility grows every
day. And as he continues his efforts to penetrate Prot's shell, he gradually
sees how impenetrable he has allowed his own veneer to become - and how little
time any man might have to discover who he really is.
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