[ A B O U T ]

DVD Release Date: 25 June  2002 (North America),   TBA - UK/Europe
Run Time: 136 minutes
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[ F E A T U R E S ]
• Disc 1
• Feature film
• Deleted scenes - with optional director's commentary
• Disc 2
• A Beautiful Partnership: Ron Howard and Brian Grazer
• Development of the Screenplay
• Meeting John Nash - The Nash Theory of Equilibrium
• "Accepting the Nobel Prize in Economics"
• "The Process of Age Progression"
• Storyboards to final feature comparison
• Creation of special effects
• Scoring the film
• Inside A Beautiful Mind
• Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay
• A Beautiful Mind soundtrack
• Widescreen anamorphic format

[ P R E V I E W  C A P T U R E S ]

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[ R E V I E W S  ]

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

BarnesandNoble.com
Based on Sylvia Nasar’s bestselling biography of John Forbes Nash Jr., the MIT mathematician who successfully conquered mental illness and went on to win a Nobel Prize, A Beautiful Mind is a gripping melodrama with a whopper of a Sixth Sense-style twist. We first meet Nash, played by Russell Crowe, in 1947, when he is still a brilliant but highly eccentric and socially awkward mathematics student at Princeton. His remarkable work on game theory eventually lands him a position at MIT, where he meets both his wife, Alicia (Jennifer Connelly), and a sinister CIA agent (Ed Harris) who recruits him as a code breaker for the Defense Department. Director Ron Howard, who employs some clever narrative devices that allow the audience to see the world from Nash’s perspective, shows how Cold War paranoia feeds and shapes his developing schizophrenia. The depiction of Nash’s battle to banish his voices -- not through debilitating drugs but by simply refusing to listen to them -- poignantly conveys the sadness and isolation of mental illness. Crowe is as compelling as ever, but it is Connelly who is the real revelation here. Her Oscar-winning turn as the gorgeous young wife who stands by Nash through it all, weathering violent episodes and medication-induced impotence, is touching and impressively grounded. The truth of Nash’s life is, at least as revealed in Nasar's book, less tidy than what we see on screen. Howard and Oscar-winning screenwriter Akiva Goldsman excised all sorts of unsavory details, and the result is Hollywood myth making at its most unabashed (complete with a heavy-handed score that telegraphs every emotion). Yet, there is no denying the emotional and inspirational power that earned A Beautiful Mind Oscars for both Best Picture and Best Director: It is an inspiring portrait of a gifted man, an extraordinary woman, and a remarkable triumph. --Kryssa Schemmerling 

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