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Release Date:
4 January 2002 (USA)
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Tagline:
The Only Thing Greater Than the Power of the Mind is the Courage of the Heart more
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After a brilliant but asocial mathematician accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn to the nightmarish. full summary | full synopsis
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Nobel Prize
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School
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Princeton
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Student
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Mathematician
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Awards:
Won 4 Oscars.
Another 27 wins
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49 nominations
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(233 articles)
Inside track on the Oscars' supporting actor race
(From Gold Derby. 18 November 2009, 11:22 AM, PST)
Decade in Review: 2001 Top Ten
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(From Gold Derby. 18 November 2009, 11:22 AM, PST)
Decade in Review: 2001 Top Ten
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Russell Crowe | ... | John Nash |
 | Ed Harris | ... | Parcher |
 | Jennifer Connelly | ... | Alicia Nash |
 | Christopher Plummer | ... | Dr. Rosen |
 | Paul Bettany | ... | Charles |
 | Adam Goldberg | ... | Sol |
 | Josh Lucas | ... | Hansen |
 | Anthony Rapp | ... | Bender |
 | Jason Gray-Stanford | ... | Ainsley |
 | Judd Hirsch | ... | Helinger |
 | Austin Pendleton | ... | Thomas King |
 | Vivien Cardone | ... | Marcee |
 | Jillie Simon | ... | Bar Co-Ed (as Jill M. Simon) |
 | Victor Steinbach | ... | Professor Horner |
 | Tanya Clarke | ... | Becky |
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Rated PG-13 for intense thematic material, sexual content and a scene of violence.
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135 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Malaysia:U |
Canada:13+ (Quebec) |
Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) |
Canada:PG (Alberta) |
Philippines:PG-13 |
Argentina:13 |
Australia:M |
Brazil:12 |
Finland:K-11 |
France:U |
Germany:12 |
Hong Kong:IIA |
Hungary:14 |
Ireland:12 |
Netherlands:12 |
Norway:11 |
Peru:14 |
Singapore:PG |
South Korea:12 |
Spain:T |
Sweden:11 |
Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) |
Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) |
Switzerland:12 (canton of the Grisons) |
UK:12 |
USA:PG-13 (certificate #38595) |
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Screenwriter Akiva Goldsman had plenty of personal experience to draw on in developing the story; he had previously worked as a child care counselor and had developed a method for training mental health workers, and had also grown up in a house where his parents had established a group home for emotionally disturbed children.
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Revealing mistakes: In the section set in March 1994, we see the trees a healthy green. In New Jersey, trees are still bare in March.
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Referenced in "The King of Queens: Clothes Encounter (#5.21)" (2003)
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Soundtrack:
All Love Can Be
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Is "A Beautiful Mind" based on a book?Did the real John Nash have delusions of a college roommate and a Communist conspiracy to smuggle a nuclear bomb into the U.S.?
How does shock therapy work?
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I think its a good idea to know as little as possible about this movie before seeing it. Now that I've seen it, the commercials on television seem to be giving away too much. With that in mind DO NOT READ THIS IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT!
Its a hard movie to pinpoint. Its not like any other movie I've ever seen, in that a character exists that is not real. John Nash's mind is the reality of the movie and its not until the movie is half over that you realize this and its jarring that you've been taken on a ride with this man's illness, and accepted it as the real world. Its also a very heartbreaking thing.
From the middle point, John and you see the world differently because he starts to receive treatment.
Russell Crowe does not overdo it for a minute and turns in his customary brilliant performance. Would not surprise me at all if he were to win his second Best Actor Oscar in March 2002. He really is that good.
Just as good but with less screen time is the beautiful and beautifully talent Jennifer Connelly, who the world may finally get to see in a mainstream movie. Her chemistry with Crowe is vital to the movie and neither of them disappoint the audience at all in that respect.
I enjoyed it immensely and felt like I had seen a movie when it was over. I was shown a person at their best and the worse and everything in between, by a masterful actor at the top of his game.
I am sure Ron Howard deserves a lot of credit that he won't get, too.