A Beautiful Mind (Widescreen Awards Edition)

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


Features: DVD, Widescreen, Dolby, Digital Audio, Dolby Digital (5.1), Dolby Surround Sound

Winner of four Academy Awards® including Best Picture, A Beautiful Mind is directed by Academy Award-winner Ron Howard and produced by long-time partner Academy Award-winner Brian Grazer. A Beautiful Mind stars Russell Crowe in an astonishing performance as brilliant mathematician John Nash, on the brink of international acclaim when he becomes entangled in a mysterious conspiracy. Now only his devoted wife (Academy Award-winner Jennifer Connelly) can help him in this powerful story of courage, passion and triumph.

"Terrific, surprisingly gripping true-life tale..." ; ;Jonathan Foreman, New York Post
"As bold and searingly imaginative as it is substantive." ; ;Susan Stark, Detroit News
"A breathtaking movie about a beautiful mystery." ; ;George Will, Newsweek
"...one of the most powerful depictions of mental illness I have ever seen..." ; ;Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
"A beautifully written, effectively acted and meticulously crafted effort." ; ;James Berardinelli's ReelViews



Editor's Note

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 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