Category: Drama
All Genres: Drama, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Mystery
Release Year: 2001
Country: USA, Germany
Runtime: 120
Rating: 6.5 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Iain Softley
Sound: DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS
Taglines:

  • Change the way you look at the world.


    • Writing by: Gene Brewer – (novel)
    Charles Leavitt – (screenplay)

    Produced by: Gene Brewer – associate producer
    Robert F. Colesberry – producer
    Lawrence Gordon – producer
    Lloyd Levin – producer
    Michael Levy – co-producer
    Susan G. Pollock – executive producer

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

    Music: Ed Shearmur
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    Plot Outline: A teenage skateboarders life begins to fray after he is involved in the accidental death of a security guard.
    Plot: Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.

    Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
    After the credits we see stars and then we see Dr. Mark Powell through the lens of his telescope as he is looking for the star of K-Pax. He walks in his yard and the movie ends.

    Goofs: We know about 11 goofs. Here comes one of them:
    Errors in geography: The story takes place in New York, however, visible through the office window in one scene is the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in downtown Los Angeles.

    Trivia: There are 6 entries in the trivia list – like these:

    • In Starman (1984), Jeff Bridges played an alien who takes on the visage of a human being, and is enthralled with a particular Earth food (pie). In K-PAX, he plays opposite Kevin Spaceys alien in human form whose favorite food is fruit.
    • In the novel, one of Prots favorite movies is Starman (1984).
    • While sitting in the tree after disappearing, Prot (Kevin Spacey) answers Dr. Mark Powells (Jeff Bridges) question of where he has been by saying he has been up north, “…Newfoundland and Labrador”. Spacey shot the exterior scenes for The Shipping News (2001) in Newfoundland during April-June 2001.