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7.9/10   114,551 votes
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Akiva Goldsman (written by)
Sylvia Nasar (book)
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Release Date:
4 January 2002 (USA) more
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Tagline:
The Only Thing Greater Than the Power of the Mind is the Courage of the Heart more
Plot:
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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Won 4 Oscars. Another 27 wins & 49 nominations more
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Le génie frise la folie / genius is close kin to madness more (1067 total)

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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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The Riemann Hypothesis mentioned throughout the movie is a real and famous problem in mathematics that has gone unsolved (it has not been proved yet) for nearly 150 years. Many other important theories have been proved on the condition that the Riemann Hypothesis holds, hence its importance. In the year 2000, the Clay Mathematics Institute of Cambridge, Massachusetts listed the Riemann Hypothesis as one of seven "Millennium Prize Problems" and offered a $1,000,000 reward to the person that proves it. more
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Continuity: The way Nash is holding his briefcase changes between shots during the pen presentation. more
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Helinger: Mathematicians won the war. Mathematicians broke the Japanese codes... and built the A-bomb. Mathematicians... like you. The stated goal of the Soviets is global Communism. In medicine or economics, in technology or space, battle lines are being drawn...
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64 out of 88 people found the following comment useful.
Le génie frise la folie / genius is close kin to madness, 7 January 2002
9/10
Author: Philippe Bruneau from Charlottetown, Canada

A poorly tailored trailer does not begin to describe what is one man's journey from the heaven of clear thought to the hell of schizophrenia.

Russell Crowe does an excellent role as John Nash, a mathematician who revolutionizes Group Theory, only to have his mind crash into confused and split views of the world.

Jennifer Connelly is superb as his wife. It is through her that we begin to understand the range of problems and pittfalls Nash is facing, most of his own devising. She deserves an Oscar, period.

The director has arranged beautiful 'red herrings' to kept viewers guessing and it works suprisingly well. Ron Howard's best work to date.

A beautiful movie to decribe a beautiful mind.

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