A beautiful mind summary

film by Ron Howard

A Beautiful Mind is a American biographicaldrama film about the mathematician John Nash, a Nobel Laureate in Economics, played by Russell Crowe.

The film is directed by Ron Howard based on a screenplay by Akiva Goldsman, who adapted the biography by Sylvia Nasar. In addition to Crowe, the film's cast features Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Paul Bettany, Adam Goldberg, Judd Hirsch, Josh Lucas, Anthony Rapp, and Christopher Plummer in supporting roles.

The story begins in Nash's days as a brilliant but asocial mathematics graduate student at Princeton University.

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After Nash accepts secretive work in cryptography, he becomes liable to a larger conspiracy, through which he begins to question his reality.

A Beautiful Mind was released theatrically in the United States on December 21, by Universal Pictures and internationally by DreamWorks Pictures.

It went on to gross over $ million worldwide and won four Academy Awards, for Best Pic