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The Man from Earth
Why this pick
Like K-PAX, it builds a gentle but unsettling science-fiction mystery around an articulate outsider whose extraordinary claim transforms a roomful of skeptics.
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MOVIE2001 2h 0m USA
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Its calm, enigmatic central figure invites radically different interpretations from everyone around him, blending deadpan humour with poignant questions about identity and belief.
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Mr. Jones
Why this pick
A psychiatrist-patient relationship carries the story, with Richard Gere’s charismatic, mercurial patient making compassion and clinical certainty increasingly difficult to separate.
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The Fisher King
Why this pick
It shares K-PAX’s humane mix of mental-health ambiguity, offbeat comedy and emotional healing, centred on a damaged stranger who changes another man’s life.
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Donnie Darko
Why this pick
For K-PAX’s balance of psychiatric uncertainty and cosmic possibility, this offers a moodier, more dreamlike mystery whose explanations remain productively unsettled.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
After claiming he is an extraterrestrial from the planet 'K-PAX', 1,000 light years away in the Lyra constellation, prot (not capitalized and pronounced with a long O, rhyming with boat) is committed to the Psychiatric Institute of Manhattan. There, psychiatrist Dr. Mark Powell attempts to cure him of his apparent delusions. However, prot is unwavering in his ability to provide cogent answers to questions about himself, K-PAX, and its civilizations. His medical examination only reinforces his story, as prot can see ultraviolet light and he is completely resistant to the effects of Thorazine. Powell introduces him to a group of astrophysicists who are befuddled when prot displays a level of knowledge about his claimed star system that was unknown to them.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Kimberly Scott
Joyce Trexler
Saul Williams
Ernie
Peter Gerety
Sal
David Patrick Kelly
Howie
Mark Christopher Lawrence
Simms
Mary Mara
Abby
Natasha Dorfhuber
Gabby Powell - Age 9
Aaron Paul
Michael Powell - Age 21