A Beautiful Mind (Widescreen Awards Edition) |  | Actors: Paul Bettany, Patrick Blindauer, Vivien Cardone, Kent Cassella, Tanya Clarke
Studio: Universal Home Video
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Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 135 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: MCAD21450D
ISBN: 0783261438
UPC: 025192145025
EAN: 9780783261430
ASIN: B00005JKQZ
Theatrical Release Date: January 4, 2002
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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
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THE THRILLING AND INSPIRING STORY OF A BRILLIANT ANDCHARISMATIC MAN ENSNARED BY A MYSTERIOUS CONSPIRACY WHICH TAKES HIS LIFE AND MIND TO PLACES HE NEVER IMAGINED.
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 Top Condition, Outstanding Film February 1, 2010
Luiz-Stephan De Souza (PA, USA)
One of the best films ever made, and it came in top condition too!
It was all half-French, and my mother loves French, it was a gift for her, so all was perfect!
I am all gratitude!
IT'S WHAT'S "INSIDE", THAT "COUNTS " January 8, 2010
M. MERRITT (Mishawaka, IN USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A BEAUTIFUL MIND is about a brilliant mathematician John Nash, (Russlle Crowe) who is working on a new concept at Princeton University, but when he is informed by William (Ed Harris) a government agent, that a top secret operative is being developed and that they need his help to decipher a intercepted code, He reluctantly agrees.
Pressure, stress and time sensitive code cracking send him into huge bouts of paranoia and depression. In the mean time, he must keep his assignment a secret from his wife Allicia, (Jennifer Connely)
his best friend Charles (Paul Betanny) and anyone else, for that matter.
Little by little as the codes become increaingly more difficult and an ever impending threat draws near, he begins to crack under the constant pressure.
This movie is a rare journey into places that few dare visit.
It will stimulate positive thinking and will have the viewer questioning thier own understanding of it.
I can appreciate a movie where intelligence can be underestimated and over thinking can be out done.
I highly recommend this movie, the story is mind bending and, at the very least, will definitely give you some food for thought!
 a decent work of fiction September 6, 2009
Christine (NH)
Not having been familiar at all with the life of John Nash, I came into this knowing that the movie was based on a real person who is a math genius and has schizophrenia, and that's all I knew. Going along, while I found the movie entertaining and engrossing, I couldn't help but suspect that a lot of the things happening didn't actually happen in real life. It was either too far-fetched or too Hollywood-perfect. So, afterwards, I started doing some research, and I was astounded by just how much of the movie was pure fiction.
It strikes me as disingenuous for this film to have been marketed as a true story. Obviously a lot of people think it is an accurate biography. It would've been better if the makers of this film gave Nash's character a different name and then said that it was loosely based on the life of a real person, instead of giving the character that person's name and then totally inventing or ignoring most of his life's details.
If you are looking for an emotional film about love conquering adversity and a couple struggling with mental illness, you will probably find this movie very touching. It does deliver on that level. But if you are looking for an accurate film about the life John Nash, this isn't it.
 mistaken point of view March 16, 2009
Carlos Vazquez Quintana (Linares- Spain)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
In reading another reviews I'm afraid to let my opinion but I think isn't so important and truth is. I only know mathematician John Nash owing to this film and something else I have read after showing it. I think he's truly a superb scientist, supported by the incomparable opportunities the USA universities offer to these people over- dowered.
But for me this movie has two central failures; these are, the hallucinations are presented in a form too solid and coarse, so, the viewer also believes the FBI agent and the student of Literature,, mate of Nash at the University are real. This trick, of course, surprises later the spectator, but I think hallucinations from schizophrenia are more subtle, untouchable things than these sturdy ghosts.
In other side, it seems Nash, being aware he suffers a terrible disease, uses his powerful mind to fight against the schizophrenia, so, he orders his hallucinations to retire and vanish. I think this is also unbelievable. Such unfortunate patients simply can't do anything in that way. I at less think so: volition and will are powerful weapons, but we humans are limited and is convenient to know when an effort is reasonable although difficult, and what is simply impossible, although at last, yes, who can say until when the will and love are operative?.
This is because the formidable mind of John Nash is very strong in dealing with abstract questions, surely he's one of that persons with a very high intelligence quotient, but mental illness are I think mostly a problem with deep roots in another class of intelligence not measurable with the IQ. Unfortunately, there, Nash is weaker. People as him have an asymmetrical mind. Today perhaps these is called today emotional intelligence, tomorrow we don't know, that doesn't matter here. Human beings have several classes of "brains" inside. A bad coordination of these complex mental machinery can drive to these illness.
Perhaps the physical strong Russel Crowe is neither the ideal protagonist for this personage but that isn't so important. As it were, I wish the best for people as John Nash....Not all persons are capable to win a Nobel prize still with a good health.
Crowe Does It Again! January 21, 2009
Craig Connell (Lockport, NY USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The more I watch Russell Crowe, the more I am becoming a big fan of his acting talent. Here again, he demonstrates his skills in a role that had me spellbound. Of course, mentally-ill fictional characters are usually fascinating. Look how popular the cable television show "Monk" has become.
Crowe's character, mathematician John Nash, is not nearly as eccentric as "Monk," but his schizophrenia makes for a fascinating portrait of a very troubled man. This is another of those based-on-a-true-story films, so don't take everything here as gospel truth....because it ain't so. (One example: in real life, Nash's wife was anything but as supportive as Jennifer Connelly was portrayed here.)
Add some classy-looking cinematography, thanks to one of the best cameramen in the business, Roger Deakins, and the film is even better. I'm not always a fan of director Ron Howard, but his films are usually interesting and pleasing to the eye. He and Crowe seem to be a good pair, too, as witnessed by 2005's "Cinderella Man."
For those who enjoy a cerebral thriller, this is a very intriguing film. Ed Harris, Paul Bettany, Adam Goldberg, Judd Hirsch, Josh Lucas and Anthony Rapp all deliver solid supporting help and, if you haven't seen this, this story will deliver a big surprise. If you know the ending, a second viewing is even more interesting as you trace Nash's actions from the beginning.
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