K-PAX is a movie directed by Iain Softley in 2001 and based on the book of the same name by Gene Brewer, first published in 1995. The movie features Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges, Alfre Woodard, Mary McCormack, David Patrick Kelly, Saul Williams, and others.
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Storyline
After claiming he is an extraterrestrial from the planet’ K-PAX’, 1,000 light years away in the Lyra constellation, Prot is committed to the Psychiatric Institute of Manhattan. 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.
Movie vs Book
Year
2001
Minutes
120
Movie Rate
7.40
Source: IMDb
Year
1995
Pages
791
Book Rate
8.24
S: Goodreads
Book
K-PAX
Author: Gene Brewer
Country: USA
First published in: 1995
Length: 791 pages
Genre: Fiction
Book series: K-Pax
User polls & recommendations
“When you adapt a 500-page book, you have to know that it won't fit into two hours. There are things that have to be left out and others that have to be told in a different way.”
MANEL LOUEIRO (Writer)
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