Inspired by the tumultuous life of mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr., who in 1994 won a Nobel Prize in economic science after a lifetime of battling schizophrenic delusions, this film's core is its vivid evocation of the ravages of chronic mental illness. West Virginia-native Nash (Russell Crowe) entered Princeton University's graduate mathematics department in 1948, when the discipline carried a whiff of post-war glamour: Mathematicians filled the ranks of WWII code breakers and helped win the war. Nash was handsome and brilliant; his arrogance and social awkwardness were tolerated for the sake of his penetrating intelligence. Within a span of 10 years, Nash produc...
Released:
2001
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
130 mins