A BEAUTIFUL MIND (2001)****

(focus on the life of Professor John Nash)

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Contains 18 movie quotes & 63 Academic Words (AWL*).
John Nash (Russell Crowe) is a brilliant professor of economics at Princeton University.  When he is diagnosed with schizophrenia, he slowly realizes the horror of what is not real in his world.  With the love of his wife, Alicia (Jennifer Connelly), Nash fights to regain his place in the world in this Ron Howard directed true-life masterpiece of courage against the horrors of challenged intellect.  Lucky for Nash, he has the help of his friends including Charles (Paul Bettany), Sol (Adam Goldberg), Hansen (Josh Lucas), and Bender (Anthony Rapp).  Nash also meets William Parcher (Ed Harris), the mysterious government agent and Dr. Rosen (Christopher Plummer), the psychiatrist with a cure that may be worse than the illness in this Academy Award winning drama. Rated PG-13 (135 min.) mike laib 2012.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0268978/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Beautiful_Mind_(film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Nash,_Jr.

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