| A Beautiful Mind (2002)
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| Front Cover |
Actor |
Back Cover |
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| Russell Crowe |
John Nash
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| Ed Harris |
Parcher
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| Paul Bettany |
Charles
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| Jennifer Connelly |
Alicia Nash
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| Adam Goldberg |
Sol
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| Judd Hirsch |
Helinger
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| Josh Lucas |
Hansen
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| Christopher Plummer |
Dr. Rosen
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| Anthony Rapp |
Bender
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| Jason Gray-Stanford |
Ainsley
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| Plot |
| A Beautiful Mind manages to twist enough pathos out of John Nash's incredible life story to redeem an at-times goofy portrayal of schizophrenia. Russell Crowe tackles the role with characteristic fervor, playing the Nobel prize-winning mathematician from his days at Princeton, where he developed a groundbreaking economic theory, to his meteoric rise to the cover of Forbes magazine and an MIT professorship, and on through to his eventual dismissal due to schizophrenic delusions. Of course, it is the delusions that fascinate director Ron Howard and, predictably, go astray. Nash's other world, populated as it is by a maniacal Department of Defense agent (Ed Harris), an imagined college roommate who seems straight out of Dead Poets Society, and an orphaned girl, is so fluid and scriptlike as to make the viewer wonder if schizophrenia is really as slick as depicted. Crowe's physical intensity drags us along as he works admirably to carry the film on his considerable shoulders. No doubt the story of Nash's amazing will to recover his life without the aid of medication is a worthy one, his eventual triumph heartening. Unfortunately, Howard's flashy style is unable to convey much of it. --Fionn Meade |
| Movie Details |
| Genre |
Drama |
| Director |
Ron Howard |
| Producer |
Brian Grazer; Ron Howard |
| Writer |
Akiva Goldsman; Sylvia Nasar |
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| Studio |
Universal Pictures |
| Country |
USA
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| Language |
English |
| Audience Rating |
PG-13 |
| Running Time |
136 mins |
| Movie Release Date |
1/4/2002 |
| Color |
Color |
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| Personal Details |
| Format |
DVD |
| Seen It |
No |
| Index |
498 |
| Collection Status |
In Collection |
| Purchase Date |
7/15/2005 |
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| Product Details |
| Region |
 Region 1 |
| Screen Ratio |
 Widescreen 1.85:1 Color (Anamorphic) |
| Layers |
Single Side, Dual Layer |
| UPC (Barcode) |
025192145025 |
| Chapters |
20 |
| Release Date |
2/8/2005 |
| Subtitles |
Spanish |
| Packaging |
Keep Case |
| Audio Tracks |
 ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1 [CC]
ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Surround
FRENCH: Dolby Digital 5.1 |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
2 |
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Extra Features
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| Color Closed-captioned Widescreen Dolby |
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