A Beautiful Mind

Product Description Winner of 4 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, A Beautiful Mind is directed by Academy Award winner Ron Howard and produced by long-time partner and collaborator, 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. Bonus Content: Feature Commentary with Director Ron Howard Feature Commentary with Screenwriter Akiva Goldsman Deleted Scenes with Director's Commentary DVD-ROM Features Including Total Axess Production Notes Cast and Filmmakers A Beautiful Partnership: Ron Howard & Brian Grazer Development of the Screenplay Meeting John Nash Accepting the Nobel Prize in Economics Casting Russell Crowe & Jennifer Connelly The Process of Age Progression Storyboard Comparisons Creation of the Special Effects Scoring the Film Inside A Beautiful Mind Academy Awards Theatrical Trailer A Beautiful Mind Soundtrack Now Showing Amazon.com A Beautiful Mind manages to twist enough pathos out of John Nash's incredible life story to redeem an at-times goofy portrayal of schizophrenia. Russell Crowe tackles the role with characteristic fervor, playing the Nobel prize-winning mathematician from his days at Princeton, where he developed a groundbreaking economic theory, to his meteoric rise to the cover of Forbes magazine and an MIT professorship, and on through to his eventual dismissal due to schizophrenic delusions. Of course, it is the delusions that fascinate director Ron Howard and, predictably, go astray. Nash's other world, populated as it is by a maniacal Department of Defense agent (Ed Harris), an imagined college roommate who seems straight out of Dead Poets Society, and an orphaned girl, is so fluid and scriptlike as to make the viewer wonder if schizophrenia is really as slick as depicted. Crowe's physical intensity drags us along as he works admirably to carry the film on his considerable shoulders. No doubt the story of Nash's amazing will to recover his life without the aid of medication is a worthy one, his eventual triumph heartening. Unfortunately, Howard's flashy style is unable to convey much of it. --Fionn Meade
ASIN: B00005JKQZ
VSKU: 5ALWH000080G_ns
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:Russell Crowe|Jennifer Connelly|Ed Harris|Paul Bettany|Adam Goldberg|Judd Hirsch|Josh Lucas|Anthony Rapp|Christopher Plummer|Austin Pendleton|Jason Gray-Stanford|Ron Howard|Brian Grazer|Mike Hill|Dan Hanley|Akiva Goldsman
Binding: Dvd
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Condition Notes: The DVD is in good condition. Disc comes in original case with original artwork.