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Movie: A Beautiful Mind (2001)

• Director: Ron Howard
• Release Date: 28 February 2002 (Hong Kong)
• Run Time: 135 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Biography , Drama  
• MPAA: Rated PG-13 for intense thematic material, sexual content and a scene of violence.

Tagline: The Only Thing Greater Than the Power of the Mind is the Courage of the Heart  

Trivia: The Harvard scene is actually filmed at Manhattan College.
 

Goofs: Factual errors: Strictly speaking, John Nash didn’t win the Nobel Prize because there isn’t a prize for Economics or Mathematics. (Alfred Nobel who willed his estate to the Nobel foundation saw no need for a prize in mathematics.) In 1969 the Swedish Central Bank established the “The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel”. This prize is presented in the same ceremony and is therefore often mistaken for a proper Nobel Prize. It is even often referred to as the “Nobel Prize in Economics” in daily conversation; the fictional character of President Jed Bartlet on "The West Wing" (1999) was also presented as a Nobel Prize winner (for economics) with the show also not making the real-world distinctions.
 

“A biopic of the meteoric rise of John Forbes Nash Jr., a math prodigy able to solve problems that baffled the greatest of minds. And how he overcame years of suffering through schizophrenia to win the Nobel Prize. Written by Anonymous”