Genre: Biography / Drama Director(s): Ron Howard Release Date: 01 January 2001 Movie rating: 8.2

We all love hearing stories about famous people and scientists, who they lived, where did they get their inspiration from and most important of all, hearing about their achievements and break troughs. It all begins in early 1950s, when we get to meet young John Nash, who is played by Russell Crowe. During his college days at Princeton University and very soon becomes a man who is awarded with a Nobel Prize for his brilliant discovery. Over the course of the years, he becomes recognized as one of the most genial minds that had influenced mathematics but also other aspects. The focus in this movie is his life after he finishes his college. As he starts working on MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), he meets a young Alicia, who is also a brilliant math student. It is only after the two of them get married that she finds out that he has schizophrenia and takes care of him. The main role of John Nash is perfectly portrayed by Russell Crowe. He showed his amazing acting talent in this movie, by being able to successfully mimic a brilliant schizophrenic scientist who fights against his illness, while he solves his brain teasers, brain puzzles and postulates new theories. The role of his wife, Alicia, is played by a young Jennifer Connelly. Her acting talents are amazing as well, as she shows herself as an intelligent woman who is struggling to make her husband better.

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