Princeton University is a place where some of the most brilliant mathematicians have studied. One truly special one stand out and that is a man by the name of John Nash. In 1947 Nash is a graduate student at the university working on an original idea to be published. He is having some trouble balancing his personal life with his professional one. That is until he meets Alice and she asks him out on a date. Around this same time John is asked to work on a secret government project. Over the next few years he marries Alice but isn't allowed to tell he what he is working on. He starts saying the people are following him because of his project and while teaching on day he is chased out of the classroom. Come to find the people who are chasing him are people who work at a psychiatric hospital. Nash is diagnosed with Paranoid Schizophrenia and the "government project" he has been working on is actually not real.
A Beautiful Mind was nominated for eight Academy Awards that year it ended up leaving with four. Although the movie did win Best Picture it was highly ridiculed for the inaccuracy of John Nash's life. However, the film makers did say that there weren't trying to make it 100% accurate. DreamWorks was very happy to take the Best Picture home over: USA's Gosford Park; Miramax's In the Bedroom; New Line Cinema's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; and 20th Century Fox's Moulin Rouge!.
I have to say I had a hard time watching Russell Crowe for the first few minutes in this film. That was because I literally just turned off Gladiator and turn on this movie. It's very different role than he played in Gladiator but he does it flawlessly! This movie kind of keeps you guessing through just about the whole thing. You start to questions weather or not he is really seeing this people and other are out to get him or if he really is schizophrenic. I would recommend for anyone to watch that is for sure!
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