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(Rated PG-13, 129 mins) Inspired by the true life events of Nobel Prize-winning John Forbes Nash Jr. and the biography by Sylvia Nasar, comes a human drama about the struggle of true genius, directed by Ron Howard. Nash (Oscar winning Russell Crowe) attends Princeton where he's an obsessed mathematician (think a nerdy Will in "Good Will Hunting"), scribbling on window panes and not much of a people person. Until his "prodigal" roommate Charlie (Paul Bettany) helps him find some Windex, so to speak, and cleans him up on campus. Flash forward five years later and the graduated Nash is a professor at MIT, able to unravel economic theories as an analyst for the Pentagon's Wheeler's laboratories led by Will (Ed Harris) Defense Dept. head who spends much of his time showing up like a cartoon Dick Tracey. Nash is brilliant. Able to detect codes from Moscow committing them solely to memory; or so it seems until a hypnotic plot unravels at a pace that delivers a story full of triumph and tragedy when Nash literally changes the world. With the help of his steadfast wife (a now slim Jennifer Connelly) and a psychiatrist (the stunning Christopher Plummer), Nash finds courage and truth in a world where a beautiful mind is not enough. From the 1950's through the 1990's the story follows a believable and deeply empathetic Crowe who is reminiscent in his underdog role in "L A Confidential" more than his tough rogue exteriors in "Proof Of Life" or "Gladiator."
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