A Beautiful Mind (2001)
78 %
Reviews Counted: 175 Fresh: 136 Rotten:39 Average Rating: 7.1/10
Consensus:
The well-acted A Beautiful Mind is both a moving love story and a revealing look at mental illness.
Runtime: 2 hrs 16 mins
Theatrical Release: Dec 21, 2001 Limited
Box Office: $170,708,996
Synopsis: Director Ron Howard delivers his finest effort with his extraordinary film, A BEAUTIFUL MIND, which won the Academy Award for 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... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Adam Goldberg, Christopher Plummer
Director: Ron Howard
Screenwriter: Akiva Goldsman
Producer: Brian Grazer, Ron Howard
Composer: James Horner
Screenwriter: Akiva Goldsman
Producer: Brian Grazer, Ron Howard
Composer: James Horner
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Consistently engrossing as an unusual character study and as a trip to the mysterious border-crossing between rarified brilliance and madness.
01/28/08
Top Critic
I can't deny how solidly it's crafted, how well-acted, and, wonder of wonders, how intelligently written and directed.
07/23/07
Unfortunately, as the picture goes on, the haunting of Nash by figments of his troubled mind becomes a trifle simplistic.
02/06/07
Director Ron Howard's deftness in suggesting the subjective experience of Crowe's character, who's later diagnosed with schizophrenia, makes for inspirational narrative, but certain plot points are so reductive.
02/06/07
Top Critic
Despite serious omissions from Nash's real-life (homosexuality, anti-Semitism), Ron Howard's middlebrow treament of the subject makes for an enjoybale film largely due to the compelling performances of Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly.
01/26/07
If this were fiction, it would be an example of superior storytelling, and it's certainly gripping.
12/30/06
A pedestrian film with a rudimentary script that forces the actors to create believability where there might otherwise be none.
12/27/06
At its most effective when it seems to lose the plot in a scrambled second act that posits the Cold War as a collective paranoid delusion, the film reverts to type (and to fact) for a sentimental anti-climax.
01/26/06
It presents itself as a biography of the flesh-and-blood John Nash. And in fact, it is really only a flashy, sentimental Hollywood movie, inspired by a few particular details of the John Nash story.
12/06/04
Crowe...disappears into the character just as he did when he played tobacco whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand in The Insider.
06/25/04
A tedious exercise in manipulation that once again proves Hollywood is short of vision.
02/01/04
... Crowe disappears into the role of John Nash and proves again that he is one of today's most versatile actors.
01/07/04
Exceptionally acted, smartly scripted, superbly directed -- a beautiful thing.
02/17/03
This film is a puzzlement in its inconsistency, especially coming from Ron Howard...Still, good performances abound.
02/08/03
'As straightforward fiction, this is solid feelgood fare, but the fact that it's based on a real person, real success and failure opens it up to far greater scrutiny.'
01/22/03
A different film might have been made about a wider sampling of Nash's experiences, but it wouldn't necessarily be a better film, and it certainly wouldn't be this film.
01/10/03
Director Ron Howard has created a moving masterpiece, elegantly guiding the audience through John Forbes Nash Jr.'s life.
12/17/02
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