A Beautiful Mind

He Saw The World In A Way No One Could Have Imagined.

Director Ron Howard delivers his finest effort with his extraordinary film, A Beautiful Mind, which won four Academy Awards including 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 fine line between the two.

A Beautiful Mind begins with Nash (Russell Crowe) at Princeton, where he struggles to think of an original idea, and the stroke of genius that will make him matter. Nash is eccentric, socially awkward, and extremely competitive. Eventually, he finds the inspiration for his innovative and influential work on game theory. He's chosen for a post at MIT, which includes crucial code-breaking work for the US government. There, he meets a beautiful and brilliant 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 story, and the film manages to dramatize both Nash's mathematical brilliance and his schizophrenia in a compellingly visual manner. Crowe delivers a strong performance, and has real chemistry with Connelly. The two make the film's story about the power of love believable and moving.

Special Features:
Feature Commentary With Director Ron Howard
Feature Commentary With Screenwriter Akiva Goldsman
Deleted Scenes (With Director's Commentary option)
Cast & Crew Biographies
Production Notes
A Beautiful Partnership - Ron Howard and Brian Grazer
Development of the Screenplay
Meeting John Nash
Accepting the Nobel Prize in Economics
Casting Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly
The Process of Age Progression
Storyboard Comparisons
Creation of the Special Effects
Scoring the Film
Inside a Beautiful Mind
Academy Awards
Theatrical Trailer

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