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A Beautiful Mind Directed by Ron Howard

Biography of John Forbes Nash
Directed by Ron Howard

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Pros	• Academy Award Winner 2002 For Best Director • pro #1 129 minutes goes by in a flash • pro #2 Suitable for a Diverse Audience • pro #3 Very close to the actual story

Cons	• con #1 Extremely intense in some scenes, may bring tears to some. • con #2 Private Life Details are Missing

The Bottom Line - A very powerful and dramatic biography on mathematician John Forbes Nash, winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for his work on Game Theory. Nash's discoveries in math impact our daily lives.

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•	An extremely enjoyable, dramatic and thought provoking movie.
•	The fascinating life of the Nash, mathematical genius whose career was interrupted for 30 yrs. by paranoid schizophrenia.
•	A powerful glimpse into the world of paranoid schizophrenia and Nash's amazing return from madness.

Guide Review This movie is for everyone, not just the mathematicians. An almost forgotten but brilliant mathematician plagued for over 30 years with paranoid schizophrenia receives the Nobel Prize for a theory he discovered 40 years previously. The movie spans Nash's life beginning in 1940 at Princeton to the early nineties. The movie fascinated and enlightened me about his life. Nash never knew then just how important his Game Theory would become. He is now considered the Father of Modern Game Theory. Nash is still teaching at Princeton today.A marvellous movie, an inspiring journey. A spark of hope for those inflicted with Schizophrenia or other type of mental illnesses.

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