A Beautiful Mind

On this episode, we discuss the seventy-fourth Best Picture Winner: “A Beautiful Mind.”

"A Beautiful Mind" is a biographical drama based on the life of the American mathematician John Nash, a Nobel Laureate in Economics and Abel Prize winner. 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 watching the burden his condition brings on his wife Alicia and friends.  Directed by Ron Howard, the film stars Russell Crowe as John Nash, Ed Harris as Parcher, Jennifer Connelly as Alicia Nash, Christopher Plummer as Dr. Rosen, Paul Bettany as Charles, Josh Lucas as Hansen, and Judd Hirsch as Helinger.

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