Beautiful Mind

Theatrical Release Date: 2002 01 04 (USA) / 2001 12 21 (USA - Limited)

UPC: 025192082184

Studio: Universal Studios

MPAA Rating: PG13   Contains:[Mild Violence, Adult Situations, Questionable for Children]

Summary: The true story of prominent mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr. is the subject of this biographical drama from director Ron Howard. Russell Crowe stars as the brilliant but arrogant and conceited professor Nash. The prof seems guaranteed a rosy future in the early '50s after he marries beautiful student Alicia (Jennifer Connelly) and makes a remarkable advancement in the foundations of "game theory," which carries him to the brink of international acclaim. Soon after, John is visited by Agent William Parcher (Ed Harris), from the CIA, who wants to recruit him for code-breaking activities. But evidence suggests that Nash's perceptions of reality are cloudy at best; he is struggling to maintain his tenuous hold on sanity, and Alicia suspects a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia. Battling decades of illness with the loyal Alicia by his side, Nash is ultimately able to gain some control over his mental state, and eventually goes on to triumphantly win the Nobel Prize. Based loosely on the book of the same name by Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind (2001) co-stars Paul Bettany, Adam Goldberg, Anthony Rapp, Christopher Plummer, and Judd Hirsch. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi

Category: Drama

Awards: Best Picture – American Film Institute Best Picture – American Film Institute Best Actor – American Film Institute Best Supporting Actress – American Film Institute Best Screenplay – American Film Institute Best Picture – Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Screenplay – Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Picture - Drama – null Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama – null Best Supporting Actress – null Best Director – null Best Screenplay – null Best Picture – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Picture – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Director – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Adapted Screenplay – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Actor – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Supporting Actress – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Actor – Screen Actors Guild Best Actress – Screen Actors Guild Best Cast – Screen Actors Guild Best Director – Directors Guild of America Best Adapted Screenplay – Writers Guild of America Best Actor – Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Supporting Actress – Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Director – Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Actor – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Adapted Screenplay – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Director – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Editing – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Editing – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Makeup – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Makeup – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Score – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Picture – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Picture – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Supporting Actress – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Screenplay – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Director – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Picture - Drama – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Moti – Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Features: Deleted scenes with director's commentary
Feature commentary with director Ron Howard
Feature commentary with screenwriter Akiva Goldsman
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 progession
Creating the special effects
Scoring the film
Inside A Beautiful Mind

Beautiful Mind

Format: Blu-ray

Release Date: 01/25/2011

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Theatre Wide-Screen

Audio: DHMA null, DTS-ESM Digital Theater Pseudo 6.1 System, DTS Digital Theater Systems, DD2 Dolby Digital Stereo

Runtime: 136 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,French

Subtitles: French

Karl Williams

A skillful adaptation of a real-life story by director Ron Howard, who matures beyond the facile emotions and obviousness inherent to most of his previous work, embracing a new level of maturity that is a welcome compliment to his clear, if workmanlike visual style. Howard has always been a reliable film craftsman, efficiently translating words into pictures even if his compositions have remained more functional than creative. It's a curse endemic to those who made their bones in television, including Howard's contemporaries Garry Marshall and Penny Marshall. Despite two successful decades on the A-list, they have few major-league peers with such a lack of distinguishable artistic signatures. Without skipping a beat, Howard has moved effortlessly from the rapid-fire compactness of Apollo 13 (1995) to the bloated, sugary, over-the-top razzle-dazzle of the almost unforgivably heinous How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000). So equated is he with a glossy, marketable broadness that the sheer elegance and subtlety of his approach to this largely internal story is astonishing. It's a quantum leap forward that would be comparable to the achievement of Steven Spielberg with Schindler's List (1995), if not for the difference in emotional, physical, and historical scale. Always a demanding, exacting actor, Russell Crowe continues a winning streak by delivering the latest in a series of knockout performances, adroitly handled by a director who seems simpatico with his every choice. The film's structural gimmick turns in on itself halfway through, challenging the viewer to observe every previous and subsequent event through the eyes of paranoia, a brilliant twist that works beautifully, even better so because it is never hammered indelicately home by the filmmaker. A Beautiful Mind (2001) is a serious, fully realized story gracefully handled by Howard, proving that an artist never stops evolving no matter how accomplished his resum?. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Brian Grazer  Producer 
Todd Hallowell  Executive Producer 
James Horner  Composer (Music Score) 
Ron Howard  Director 
Ron Howard  Producer 
Akiva Goldsman  Screenwriter 
Karen Kehela  Executive Producer 
Russell Crowe  Actor 
Jennifer Connelly  Actor 
Ed Harris  Actor 
Paul Bettany  Actor 
Adam Goldberg  Actor 
Judd Hirsch  Actor 
Josh Lucas  Actor 
Anthony Rapp  Actor 
Christopher Plummer  Actor 
Austin Pendleton  Actor 
Jason Gray-Stanford  Actor 
Vivien Cardone  Actor 

Country: USA