K-PAX (2001) poster
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FilmPG-132001

K-PAX

Science FictionDramaMystery

Directed by Iain Softley

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. From TMDB

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K-PAX is a 2001 science fiction drama mystery film, directed by Iain Softley, starring Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey and Mary McCormack.

  • 68 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon
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  • makeshiftreaper @[email protected]Lemmy · Jan 3, 2026

    I watched 225 movies in 2025. Here's my rating and two* sentences on each with my thoughts (Part 2: A-P). I watch a lot of movies, I don’t necessarily have a yearly goal however I like keeping a record, so here is what I watched with some thoughts [Link to Part 1 (2025 movies)](https://lemmy.world/post/41059248) - My rating scale is .5-5, and my review philosophy is “how well does the movie succeed at what it is trying to do?” - Thus Pacific Rim would be rated highly, whereas Transformers…

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  • Briiiiiiaaaaannnnnssss!! @spocksbrian.worstpossible.worldBluesky · Aug 2, 2026

    #aquarius: watch my movie Shrek and then watch the second movie i was in. It's called K-PAX and it wasn't successful and my career has never been the same as a result. Well, that, and the 2017 stuff

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  • rimidar @rimidar.auBluesky · Sep 16, 2026

    Ken Paxton was named after the Kevin Spacey movie K-PAX

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  • Pazuzus fathers brothers nephews cousins former roommate @mark-80.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 26, 2026

    #NowWatching K-Pax (2001) Dir: Iain Softley #Movies #Film

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  • CerebralHawks @[email protected]Lemmy · Nov 21, 2025

    He was one of my favorite actors until all that stuff came out. 100% with Rapp on this. Can’t watch Spacey anymore. He robbed us of so many movies I loved, like The Usual Suspects and K-Pax. Fuck that guy.

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  • The Ponderoso @hossnchub.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 11, 2025

    Peter Gerety is a hot one. Might want to check his IMD. Remember him in K-Pax. Not sure what movie this is...

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  • Nashies! YouTube Cooking Show 😺 @nashiez.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 5, 2026

    If we're talking Movie takes, I wish they'd remake K-Pax without Kevin Spacey and with a more in depth compassionate look at mental health, trauma, and grief. It could be good.

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  • Briiiiiiaaaaannnnnssss!! @spocksbrian.worstpossible.worldBluesky · Aug 4, 2026

    This didn't happen. I'm Shrek, from the movie Shrek. And the movie K Pax

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  • 🖖🏳️‍⚧️T'Lynn🦇David🦇Cooper🏳️‍⚧️🖖 @awholedamntown.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 23, 2023

    Once, I was at @jamesleech.bsky.social's house and noticed a pile of 47 copies of the film, K-PAX, at the bottom of one of his Sad Staircases. I said, "What the Hell Bill, why do you have so many copies of K-PAX?" He just grinned and laughed knowingly. So that's why I'm never going back to England.

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  • 🐦 Ferris 🔜 MFF DoubleTree @ferristhetoucan.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 13, 2025

    One of my favorite movies that is never talked about is K-PAX. It's about a man who claims to be an alien from another solar system admitted into a psychiatric hospital. Very cool movie.

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  • The Callie is Coming from Inside the House @calliedot.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 28, 2026

    So you’re telling me Kevin Spacey does not play Ken Paxton in the film K-Pax?

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  • Briiiiiiaaaaannnnnssss!! @spocksbrian.worstpossible.worldBluesky · Aug 5, 2026

    I think that you don't know that I'm Shrek, from the movie K Pax

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  • Vera Lukas @veralukas.bsky.socialBluesky · May 12, 2025

    Why its so complicated for humanity to admit that we all know deep inside right from wrong? (K-Pax movie quote on pic)

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  • Space Opera Stuff @spaceoperastuff.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 18, 2025

    Just how spacey is Kevin Spacey? His character claimed to be an alien in K-PAX, and he did a voice in the lunar base movie Moon (2009). With only 2 space movies out of 92 credits, Kevin is only about 2.2% spacey. Sad.

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  • Briiiiiiaaaaannnnnssss!! @spocksbrian.worstpossible.worldBluesky · Aug 3, 2026

    I was not allowed o set for that film due to bullshit reasons. All the shots of me are archival footage from the previous movies (and a deleted scene from K Pax)

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  • masonReloaded @masonreloaded.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 5, 2026

    Add a food to a movie title: Special K Pax

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  • June Blackwell 🏳️‍⚧️ @junipercapita.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 20, 2026

    K-Pax. The whole movie exists to tell one awful dad joke.

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  • aslynn is just a ghoul 👻 @aslynnromano.comBluesky · Feb 8, 2026

    oh!! K-Pax is a great book, and the sequel "on a beam of light". Just don't watch the Kevin Spacey movie lol you can tell 12 yo that there are totally real stories like this with patients who have significant thought process alterations & perceptual disturbances AND who are we to say what's real?

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  • Allan @allancheapshot.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 29, 2025

    Watched K-PAX the other day. Well, I walked in on my wife watching it. Such a good movie.

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  • I'm Ozma. I'm a raccoon. @ozmaracc.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 16, 2025

    Watching this movie K-Pax, came out in 2001, they visit a house that's supposed to have been abandoned since 1996, but it's clearly a turn of the century farmhouse showing signs of serious neglect going back far more than a decade! And in New Mexico no less! They must think we're idiots!

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  • ZDarfan @zdarfan.bsky.socialBluesky · May 12, 2025

    The dentist is currently explaining the premise of the movie K-Pax to somebody

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  • Today In Movies @todayinmovies.comBluesky · Oct 27, 2026

    🎬 The Top 4 Science Fiction Movies Released on October 26! What's your fave? 1. The Terminator 2. Cloud Atlas 3. K-PAX 4. 7Aum Arivu 12 #SciFi movies released today: https://todayinmovies.com/genres/oct-26?sort=ranking#science-fiction #FilmSky

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  • I Am A Pyrite King @iamapyriteking.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 8, 2026

    Ever see the Argentinian film MAN FACING SOUTHEAST? I think that's the original that K-PAX ripped off, and it's very good. Not a movie I necessarily *agree with* all the time, but beautiful and thought-provoking.

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  • Scott, outcast since I broke her water. @strontiumdugs.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 24, 2026

    Tonight’s flickering images, was, to be, Dune: Part 2. Had to hit the brakes, Greenland: Migration is now available, as is K-Pax, which is a firm favourite of mine. Anyway, It’s Butler time.

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  • vault0.bsky.social @vault0.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 14, 2026

    Happy birthday to Frank Collison, born today in 1950. An American actor, he has appeared in The Blob; Elvira, Mistress of the Dark; Star Trek: TNG; the film Alien Nation; Quantum Leap; Dollman; The Lawnmover Man; Star Trek: DS9; K-PAX; and Stargate: Atlantis. #FrankCollison

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  • Realweegiemidget Reviews Films, TV, Books and More @realweegiemidget.eurosky.socialBluesky · Nov 12, 2025

    Hey, it's catch up time with #EdwardsMovieCharacterChallenge2025 #Films #Movies #TV Day 11... Movie character who is catatonic... not saying when, but this dude from K-Pax is... weegiemidget.wordpress.com/2017/05/26/k...

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  • Dr Paul M @drpaulm.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 4, 2025

    Satire is humorous. American Beauty was just a creepy film. I felt uncomfortable every time he was on screen, which is at odds with how i felt during K-PAX. There he portrayed a psychopath with clinical accuracy.

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  • MizfitMathew @mizfitmathew.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 6, 2025

    Movie #2. This one is my wifes choice. I think I've seen it maybe one time, not sure. K-PAX, 2001

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  • Mary @sharpestrose.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 15, 2025

    Still don't think I'm autistic simply because I prefer to assume any social difficulties I have are personal failings, but I absolutely fumbled an extremely nice boy at uni when I was a teen, who invited me to go see the movie K-Pax and whom I turned down because I did not want to see K-Pax.

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  • Red Pill Junkie @redpilljunkie.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 19, 2024

    I love how in the movie K-Pax Prot explains to his psychiatrist how advanced planets have no need for any type of societal institution. Even families were unnecessary.

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  • rainbowbarnacle @rbwrites.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 24, 2024

    I know what you mean. I remember seeing K-Pax a billion years ago, and it was a nice movie and everything but the soundtrack TOTALLY BLEW ME AWAY.

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  • Emily @biblewarrior69.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 16, 2023

    I've decided to go so far down the movie nerd rabbit hole that I come out the other side and convince myself that K-PAX (2001) is cinema's finest achievement. Wish me luck!

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  • Deadhawk In Flames @bizarroland.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 26, 2026

    Man facing southeast, it's a foreign language film from an insane asylum about a man who claims to be an angel or an alien who's on a mission from God to save us. The writers of K-PAX were sued by the people who made this film for stealing their idea.

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  • vault0.bsky.social @vault0.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 5, 2026

    Happy birthday to Gene Brewer, born today in 1937. Brewer is an American writer, the author of the K-PAX book series. The first book in the series was made into a film in 2001. #GeneBrewer

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  • JudgeHolden @gifsmooth.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 1, 2026

    Damn, he took that K-Pax movie really seriously, huh?

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  • tomera @mjtomera.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 19, 2026

    K-PAX. The only movie I left in the middle of watching it in a movie theater. There was just something about the premise, the tone and the acting in the first however long minutes that set my teeth on edge until I couldn't stand it any more. And I was a big Kevin Spacey fan at the time.

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  • 𐌉ᏵᏵ𐌙 𐌂𐌙Ᏽ𐌍𐌵𐌔 @iggycygnus.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 18, 2026

    It was a movie about John Travolta. Just like K-Pax was about Kevin Spacey. Like K-Pax, I was waiting to see if there was ever more to this movie, but there wasn't. Both were movies I could say I saw once, but having done so, neither changed my life in any discernable way.

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  • Heather Costa @heathercosta.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 20, 2025

    The #1 movie when you were 10 is how your 2026 is going to go. Not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing. But the #1 movie the weekend before my 10th birthday was K-PAX with Kevin Spacey, so I'm guessing 2026 will involve dodging an awkward bullet.

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  • Ultán @kaospheric.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 25, 2025

    Film 613 for '25 ▶️ PROT is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a faraway planet named K-PAX. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations: #NowWatching "K-Pax" (2001) #Film #PhysicalMedia #Bluray

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  • Jam2 @jam2.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 11, 2025

    ALPHABET MOVIE 👽👽👽📽️📽️📽️: Think of one Science-Fiction Movie you really like that begins with the letter-K and add here (pic, poster, scene clip, GIF) My Choice- K-Pax (2001) Your Choice-? (Add to this Post) youtu.be/g9I2wiABpp8?...

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  • AMBIEN @ambienowl.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 26, 2025

    I’ve listened to the K-Pax soundtrack probably hundreds of times in the past 23-ish years but I’ve only seen the movie once. Yesterday.

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  • Diane @dianeiam.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 3, 2025

    Watched an old movie called K-PAX with Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges. It was good. Now just playing around online with word games, Bluesky, and watching random stuff on YouTube.

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  • Sredni @sredni.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 21, 2025

    K-PAX 2001 If you combined the production and performance quality of K-PAX with the thoughtful execution of The Man from Earth, you’d have something really special. #filmsky #movies #film #cinema

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  • Xzyliac Delilah-Electroclash Ariel Has Big Hair and Steals @xzyliac.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 10, 2025

    The worst K-PAX since that Kevin Spacey movie

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  • vault0.bsky.social @vault0.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 14, 2025

    Happy birthday to Frank Collison, born today in 1950. An American actor, he has appeared in The Blob; Elvira, Mistress of the Dark; Star Trek: TNG; the film Alien Nation; Quantum Leap; Dollman; The Lawnmover Man; Star Trek: DS9; K-PAX; and Stargate: Atlantis. #FrankCollison

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  • Realweegiemidget Reviews Films, TV, Books and More @realweegiemidget.eurosky.socialBluesky · Dec 29, 2024

    December 29 - A Movie Character Who Eats an Apple #EdwardsMovieCharacterChallenge Kevin Spacey as Prot eats an apple in K-Pax (2001)... weegiemidget.wordpress.com/2017/05/26/k...

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  • Flying Squid @[email protected]Lemmy · Jun 28, 2024

    You were not alone in that belief. Someone else said the same thing. His name was Max Wright, incidentally. Sadly, he passed away in 2019. *He* is occasionally confused with Austin Pendleton, Max from The Muppet Movie, who has the same name as Max Wright, which doesn't help. To make things even more confusing, they were once in the same movie- Simon*, which came out in 1980. Austin is, thankfully, still with us. *It's like K-PAX if the psychiatrist was the one who convinced the guy he was an…

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  • AndrewF @andrewflincoln.comBluesky · Nov 3, 2026

    K-Pax lol. Just realized that. That movie any good? Spacey though, nope.

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  • Lyle E Kyotee @lyleekyotee.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 24, 2026

    I thought it was a great movie too. Just like House of Cards. It was an awesome series, but I stopped watching it when I found out about Spacey. And I deleted my copy of K-Pax. I don't watch any Woody Allen movies either. None of them

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  • Briiiiiiaaaaannnnnssss!! @spocksbrian.worstpossible.worldBluesky · Aug 5, 2026

    I'm Shrek from the famous Walter Disney Company film K Pax

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  • Frantom of the Paradise @mxsaturn.gayBluesky · Jun 2, 2026

    yeah he had multiple copies of the same movie. i THINK it was K-PAX but i could be getting things mixed up

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  • Jared Leto Atreides @genericuser1234567.bsky.socialBluesky · May 19, 2026

    For some reason K-PAX was one of the movies my high school teachers put on for movie day. To this day I do not know why

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  • Kursaal @moviefaceswap.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 30, 2026

    A regular series in which I face swap myself into a random movie #844 - K-PAX (2001) #faceswap #randommovie #everydayifaceswapmyself

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  • Dana Meiff @drnyle.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 30, 2026

    Just watched K-PAX and I gotta say, pretty darn good movie for what it brings. Shoutout to Jeff Bridges looking fantastic in every stage of his live. He has aged majestically.

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  • bodiddlyspiddly.bsky.social @bodiddlyspiddly.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 3, 2026

    I know you didn’t make a mistake and just used the name of the movie I just like bringing this up every time K-Pax is mentioned

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  • Invisible 9 @frankenstein-9.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 19, 2025

    K-Pax. Has anyone seen the movie "K-Pax" before? Great, Great, Great, Great, Great. I love Kevin Spacey movies. Top notch performance by Jeff Bridges too. I think my favorite Spacey movies are a tie between: "American Beauty" and "The Usual Suspects". A great performer (i.m.o.).

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  • Sophie Mac @sophiemac.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 14, 2025

    K-PAX (2001). Next in my Jeff Bridges season, he stars alongside Kevin Spacey. From the very start of the film I devoured it. There's a truly magical quality to it. Softley, Softley catchee monkey. Will you admit the possibility that Prot is from K-PAX? #FilmSky

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  • Realweegiemidget Reviews Films, TV, Books and More @realweegiemidget.eurosky.socialBluesky · Oct 24, 2025

    The #1 movie on Tuesday, October 23rd 2001 was: K-PAX... weegiemidget.wordpress.com/2017/05/26/k...

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  • reincarnated7x.bsky.social @reincarnated7x.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 22, 2025

    I received my copy of the book : K Pax today. I can't wait to read it. I also plan on buying the second and possibly the third of the series. The movie is deep, amazing and Kevin Spacey gave an unforgettable performance. Definitely on my favorites list.

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  • tedr5292.bsky.social @tedr5292.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 11, 2025

    There is another possibility, just like Trump. I get inspired when I watch movies. Last night, I watched K-Paks movie with Kevin Spacey called Capex movie with Kevin Spacey called K-Pax

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