“K-PAX,” a quirky tale of a mental patient who claims to be a visitor from a far-off solar system, topped the weekend box office, grossing $17.2 million, a surprisingly strong showing for a film with ...

Aliens and ghosts dominated the box office this weekend as the mental-ward drama “K-PAX,” starring Jeff Bridges and Kevin Spacey--as a possible visitor from space--took in $17.5 million to premiere as ...

“K-PAX” smartly weaves together two strains, a “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” duel between a patient and his keeper, and the super-intelligent alien saga, best illustrated by the adventures of the ...

In “K-PAX,’ a glossy fable about friendship and madness, Kevin Spacey plays a seemingly delusional man named Prot who claims to be a visitor from a distant planet, and Jeff Bridges plays his harried ...

Winning an Academy Award can have a strange effect on an actor. Some Oscar winners decide that they will make only serious, solemn movies. Others become so picky about their parts that they ...

The casting in K-PAX is canny, but the picture as a whole is a clunky mix of the canny and the would-be uncanny. A trick character like “prot” (pronounced “prote”), a spookily even-keeled figure who ...

"> Speaking recently to a roundtable gathering of journalists in Los Angeles, actor Kevin Spacey talked about his latest, and most unusual, role to date: Prot, a New York mental patient who claims to ...

LONDON — The world premiere of Robert Altman’s “Gosford Park” will open the 45th London Film Festival, which runs Nov. 7-22. Fest will close with the international premiere of “K-Pax,” directed by ...

Kevin Spacey is in his element in K-Pax, which is too bad: A major actor should cultivate a lower threshold of shame. Spacey plays a fellow who calls himself Prot (pronounced “Prote”), who claims to ...

Kevin Spacey and Iain Softley. Cinematographer John Mathieson (hand on chin). After the filming with Spacey at Grand Central Station was completed, it was Jeff Bridge's turn in front of the camera. A ...

The must-see movie of the season opened on Friday, and once again, a stellar leading performance was turned in by Kevin Spacey. “K-PAX” is a movie about Prot (Spacey), a mysterious character who is ...