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Genres:
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Biography /
Drama
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Release:
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Director:
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Ron Howard
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Actors:
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Anthony Rapp,
Tanya Clarke,
Jillie Simon,
Victor Steinbach,
Russell Crowe,
Ed Harris,
Jennifer Connelly,
Christopher Plummer,
Paul Bettany,
Adam Goldberg,
Josh Lucas,
Jason Gray-Stanford,
Judd Hirsch,
Austin Pendleton,
Vivien Cardone
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Duration:
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135 min.
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Rating:
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(9.4/10)116
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Plot Summary:
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Director Ron Howard delivers his finest deed with his remarkable mist, A BEAUTIFUL MIND, which won the Academy Accord for Best Picture in 2001. Based loosely on Sylvia Nasar's acclaimed biography of mathematician John Forbes Nash, the film is a compelling look at one man's genius, his debilitating mental illness, and the clear line between the two. A BEAUTIFUL MIND begins with Nash (Russell Crowe) at Princeton, where he struggles to muse over of an master impression, and the stroke of genius that will record him complication. Nash is unusual, socially awkward, and hellishly competitive. When ... all is said, he finds the education on his innovative and prestigious include on game theory. He's chosen suited for a record at MIT, which includes crucial code-breaking mould for the US government. There, he meets a beautiful and glittering student, Alicia (Jennifer Connelly). They marry but their happiness is threatened, as Nash, belatedly diagnosed as schizophrenic, descends into madness. Screenwriter Akiva Goldsman cannily condenses Nash's fishing, and the film manages to dramatize both Nash's exact brilliance and his schizophrenia in a compellingly visual manner. Crowe delivers a strong performance, and has real chemistry with Connelly. The two liberate the video's contention with respect to the power of love believable and moving.
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Beautiful Mind, A
Earnest thriller-cum-weepie starring Russell Crowe as a maths genius whose life is wracked by schizophrenia. Stamped all over with 'Hollywood prestige project' and showered with awards
Russell Crowe gets the chance to act his heart out in Ron Howard's A Beautiful Mind. Not only does he portray a maths genius (based on real life Nobel Prize-winner John Forbes Nash Jr), he portrays a maths genius crippled by schizophrenia. And he ages 47 years! He turns in a chunky, twitchy performance which, though not on a par with his more subtle turn in The Insider, is admirable. He is complemented by a less flashy, underwritten turn from Jennifer Connelly.
Princeton, 1947. Awkward but arrogant John Nash arrives on a maths scholarship, determined to come up w...
Orthodox direction but still good
I've never really felt the desire to watch this film as Ron Howard has a very textbook feel to the few films that I have seen of his and it does creep in at times, but not to the detriment of an orthodox Hollywood film. Russell Crowe got another Oscar nomination for this and it is deserved as he shines throughout, with solid support elsewhere, although I wasn't really getting the love between the two leads that obviously plays a very big part of the story and it loses a bit because of it. That said, the portrayal of the mental health of Crowe's character I found to be riveting and although I couldn't even begin to suggest whether it's accurate or not, it was very interesting and the strongest part of the film. Another pleasant surprise.
Beautiful Mind, A
As a math devotee at Princeton in 1947, John Forbes Nash (Crowe) was eccentric, uncouth and arrogant, but his PhD...
Beautiful Mind, A
Russell Crowe gets the chance to act out his focus out in Ron Howard's A Pleasant Affronted by. Not solely does he portray a maths talent (based on real life Nobel Prize-winner John Forbes Nash Jr), he portrays a maths genius immobilized during schizophrenia. And he ages 47 years! He turns in a chunky, twitchy performance which, while not on a par with his more faint turn in The Insider, is ripsnorting. He is complemented by a less flamboyant, underwritten turn from Jennifer Connelly. Princeton, 1947. Gauche but arrogant John Nash arrives on a maths fellowship, determined to crumble up with an original idea. Not bothering with classes, he obsessively writes theorem (plotting the movements of pigeons, fitting for example). His however moll is raffish roommate C...
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