This movie has always been one of my favorites. All of the actors deliver wonderful performances that truly seem to capture accurate portrails of the feelings one would have in dealing with mental illness. The movie is quite serious which makes the lighthearted and happy moments all the more treasured. The music is also phenomenal! It’s one of the few movie soundtracks that gets stuck in my head and completely captures the emotions of the movie. A++

A Beautiful Mind based on a true story about John Nash, a Nobel Laureate in Economics. The film was directed by Ron Howard, from a screenplay written by Akiva Goldsman. It was inspired by a bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-nominated 1998 book of the same name by Sylvia Nasar. The film stars Russell Crowe, along with Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Paul Bettany, Adam Goldberg, Judd Hirsch, Josh Lucas, Anthony Rapp, and Christopher Plummer in supporting roles. The story begins in Nash's days as a graduate student at Princeton University. Early in the film, Nash begins to develop paranoid schizophrenia and endures delusional episodes while painfully watching the loss and burden his condition brings on wife Alicia and friends.

This is 4th copy I have purchased for family members. Leading character is quite magnetic and I feel did a marvelous job presenting a difficult illness, especially for someone intelligent and refined to have to deal with. Gives insight to others as the way outsiders see their illness and shows understanding of the demons the disabled are trying to master and remain a part of the living,