My Reason For Purchasing A Beautiful Mind DVD.
I wrote this review a year or so ago for another review site which has since closed. I thought I would upload it here as A Beautiful Mind is one of my favourite Drama films ever and I just wanted to recommend it and give some opinions on it. There is quite a few reviews already about it, but I just wanted to give my two cents worth also.

Well this Movie was first released on December 21, 2001. It is directed by Ron Howard and was produced by Brian Grazer and Ron Howard. It was written by Sylvia Nasar (The book) and Akiva Goldsman. The book is excellent by the way, but I have to say they really did a great job of packing everything into this Movie also. The Music from this film is by James Horner. The film runs for around 135 minutes. A Beautiful Mind apparently has made over $300 million worldwide, and went on to win four Academy Awards, including one for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actress. It was also nominated for four other awards, so it really was a top movie of it's day, is still quite popular and not yet dated.

• Russell Crowe as John Forbes Nash.
• Jennifer Connelly as Alicia Nash.
• Paul Bettany as Charles Herman.
• Ed Harris as William Parcher.
• Josh Lucas as Martin Hansen.
• Adam Goldberg as Sol.
• Anthony Rapp as Bender.
• Vivien Cardone as Marcee.
• Christopher Plummer as Dr. Rose.

The film, A Beautiful Mind is based on the touching true story, of the interesting and somewhat mysterious life of John Forbes Nash, a truly mathematical genius. John Nash won a Nobel peace prize Laureate for Economics in 1994. This film starts off with John Nash's arrival at the Princeton University in New Jersey USA. John Nash soon develops his "Original Idea" as a graduate, that will help to bring radical change to the world of mathematics. Early on in this movie, John Nash sadly begins to develop paranoid schizophrenia and has a few episodes of it at first that come and go. This film I found, really will grab your full attention right from the very beginning of it.

The Plot Of The Movie:
The Movie begins with John Nash's (Russell Crowe) arrival at the Princeton University in America, as a new, young and very handsome graduate. He received a Carnegie Prize for mathematics and won his way into the University. He is supposed to get his own room there, but soon learns he will be sharing it with a guy named Charles (Paul Bettany) who is a literature student at the university also. It is not long before Charles becomes John Nash's best friend after he gives John some good advice about his life. Charles and John soon bump into and become good friends with a few other science and math students at Princeton, like Martin Hansen played by (Josh Lucas), Sol, played by (Adam Goldberg) and also Bender played by (Anthony Rapp) although Johns friendship with them at times feels slightly awkward. John also tells his friend Charles near the start of this film, that he is better with numbers than with people, so this gives you an idea of what his character is like.

This Movie truly is one of the best true drama stories I have ever seen. It is for over thirteen's I believe, which is probably about right in my opinion, as it would be a little complicated for younger children. It really is a must have DVD to add to your collection, as watching it time again, always seems to bring up something you have missed about the story. It really is very jam packed, but is not a drawn out film by any means, as every second of it is very entertaining and you certainly will not want to miss a bit, as it really is so interesting and very carefully and cleverly acted out.

Extras:
This DVD comes with two discs. The first disc is the movie itself and it also contains 'by the way' easy listening and appropriate classical music the whole way through this film, that is very touching and meaningful to each scene of the story also. I believe a separate soundtrack to this film is also available.

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