A Beautiful Mind
Winner of four Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Supporting Actress, Ron Howard's compelling, real life drama centers on John Forbes Nash (Russell Crowe), a mathematical genius whose decades long fight with schizophrenia threatened his marriage and academic career, until his redemption came in the form of a Nobel Prize in 1994. Jennifer Connelly co-stars as Nash's understanding wife Alicia, Ed Harris as a "Government Agent" who contracts him to break Cold War codes and Christopher Plummer is the psychiatrist who tries to help him.
Year: 2001
Genre: Drama, True Stories, Academy Award - Best Picture, Spiritual Cinema, Biography, Disabilities, Golden Globe - Drama
Country: USA
Director: Ron Howard
Starring: Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Christopher Plummer
Duration: 130 Minutes
Rating: M
8.2/10
Location in store: Drama
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