A Beautiful Mind

Year:

2002

Duration:

135 min

Genres:

Biography | Drama

IMDB rate:

8.2

Director:

Ron Howard

Awards:

Won 4 Oscars. Another 30 wins & 54 nominations

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 2002-01-04

Filming Locations: Bayonne, New Jersey, USA

Earnings

Budget: $60,000,000

Opening Weekend: $2,501,096 (USA) (23 December 2001)

Gross: $170,708,996 (USA) (27 May 2002)

Cast

Actor

Character

Jonah Falcon

Russell Crowe

John Nash

Ed Harris

Parcher

Jennifer Connelly

Alicia Nash

Christopher Plummer

Dr. Rosen

Paul Bettany

Charles

Adam Goldberg

Sol

Josh Lucas

Hansen

Anthony Rapp

Bender

Jason Gray-Stanford

Ainsley

Judd Hirsch

Helinger

Austin Pendleton

Thomas King

Vivien Cardone

Marcee

Jillie Simon

Bar Co-Ed (as Jill M. Simon)

Victor Steinbach

Professor Horner

Tanya Clarke

Becky

Thomas F. Walsh

Captain

Jesse Doran

General

Kent Cassella

Analyst

Patrick Blindauer

MIT Student

John Blaylock

Photographer

Roy Thinnes

Governor

Anthony Easton

Young Man

Cheryl Howard

Harvard Administrator

Rance Howard

White-Haired Patient

Jane Jenkins

Code-Red Nurse (as JJ Chaback)

Darius Stone

Adjunct

Josh Pais

Princeton Professor

Alex Toma

Toby

Valentina Cardinalli

Joyce

Teagle F. Bougere

Young Professor

David B. Allen

John Nash Jr. - Teenager

Michael Esper

John Nash Jr. - Young Man

Eva Burkley

Girl at Bar (as Catharina Eva Burkley)

Amy Walz

Blond in Bar

Tracey Toomey

Brunette

Jennifer Weedon

Brunette

Yvonne Thomas

Brunette

Holly Pitrago

Brunette

Isadore Rosenfeld

Pen Ceremony Professor

Tommy Allen

Pen Ceremony Professor (as Thomas C. Allen)

Dave Bayer

Pen Ceremony Professor

Brian Keith Lewis

Pen Ceremony Professor

Tom McNutt

Pen Ceremony Professor

Will Dunham

Pen Ceremony Professor

Glenn Roberts

Pen Ceremony Professor

Ed Jupp Jr.

Pen Ceremony Professor (as Ed Jupp)

Christopher Stockton

Princeton Student

Gregory Dress

Princeton Student

Carla Occhiogrosso

Princeton Student

Matt Samson

Princeton Student

Lyena Nomura

Princeton Student

Kathleen Fellegara

Insulin Treatment Nurse

Betsy Klompus

Insulin Treatment Nurse

Stelio Savante

Technician

Logan McCall

Technician

Bob Broder

Technician

Michael Abbott Jr.

Princeton Library Tutor (uncredited)

Liche Ariza

Princeton Student

Michael Arthur

Army Captain (uncredited)

Reggie Austin

Pen Ceremony Professor (uncredited)

Fileena Bahris

Student (uncredited)

Lloyd Baskin

Professor (uncredited)

Sean Bennett

Student (uncredited)

Cade Bittner

Harvard Student (uncredited)

James Thomas Bligh

Nobel Prize Attendee (uncredited)

Rich Bryant

College Student (uncredited)

Dan Chen

Nobel Prize Ceremony Guest (uncredited)

Phil Cirincione

MIT Student (uncredited)

Scott Addison Clay

MIT Student (uncredited)

Sean Dillon

MIT Student (uncredited)

Berly Ellis

Princeton Tutor '78 (uncredited)

Fabrizio Fante

Harvard Student (uncredited)

Scott Fernstrom

Trent Humphres (uncredited)

Michael Fiore

MIT Student (uncredited)

Mike Fitzgerald

Princeton Student

Todd Fredericks

Man at Gouverners Ball (uncredited)

Gregory Gordon

Student (uncredited)

Evan Hart

Princeton Student

Jason Horton

Princeton Student

Bryce Dallas Howard

Harvard Student (uncredited)

Ron Howard

Man at Gouverners Ball (uncredited)

Vivian Kalinov

Princeton Student

Dory Manzour

Princeton Student

Tiffany Marz

Princeton Student

Charles McClelland

Man at Nobel Ceremony (uncredited)

Jon M. McDonnell

Bar Patron (uncredited)

Robert Myers

Professor (uncredited)

Charles Pendelton

Bartender (uncredited)

Reed Penney

MIT Student (uncredited)

Michael C. Pierce

Radio Operator

Mills Pierre

Princeton Student

Deborah Rayne

Princeton Student

Sean Reid

Harvard Student (uncredited)

Brian Smyj

Soldier (uncredited)

Ned Stuart

Professor (uncredited)

Dave Sweeney

Campus Cop (uncredited)

Alessandro Tanaka

Student Admirer (uncredited)

Douglas Taurel

Princeton Student

John H. Tobin

Shadow Figure (uncredited)

Jeffrey Christopher Todd

Princeton Student

Michael Tota

Army Soldier (uncredited)

Ryan Tygh

Princeton Math Grad (uncredited)

Erik Van Wyck

Princeton Student

Warner Wolf

Award Ceremony Bystander (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

The Pentagon office scene was filmed in the basement of Keating Hall on Fordham University's Bronx campus (the same room was used in the filming of the Georgetown University language lab scene in The Exorcist (1973)).

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Tom Cruise was considered to play John Nash.

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Julia Ormond auditioned for the role of Alicia Nash.

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Goofs

When John Nash arrives at MIT after having come from the pentagon he is wearing a topcoat though everyone complains about the air-conditioning is broken and it followed by a scene in which opening windows because of the heat facilitates the film's "meet cute". However this might not be a gratuitous error but a foreshadowing of Nash's mental disturbances.

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On the "hot Day" when the air-conditioning isn't working, the open window reveals a tree bare of leaves, and Nash arrives at the office in a heavy overcoat.

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Silvia Drottning (The Queen of Sweden) is not blonde but has black hair and King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden is not shorter than her.

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Quotes

Parcher: Conviction, it turns out, is a luxury of those on the sidelines, Mr. Nash.

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Hansen: Nash. Who's winning - you, or you?

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Hansen: So how about it, Nash? You scared?

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Faq

Q

Is it possible to read Nash's dissertation online?

A

Yes. Princeton University has made a copy of Nash's original dissertation, Non-cooperative Games (1950), available here.

Q

Was the real relationship between John Nash and his wife Alicia truly as beautiful as in the movie?

A

No. In reality, Nash was involved with another woman and had fathered a son out of wedlock with her prior to meeting Alicia. They did marry and have a son together, but his illness drove them apart. Unlike in the movie, Nash deeply resented Alicia for having him involuntarily committed. Upon his release, Nash withdrew from her emotionally and sexually. After three years of enduring his mania, Alicia divorced Nash in 1962 and began a new relationship with another man. She continued to help and support Nash as a friend rather than as a wife. She even let him stay in her home to keep Nash from becoming homeless but thought of him as a boarder. They lived separate lives under the same roof. Their romantic relationship was only restarted after Nash won the Nobel Prize. She remarried him in 2001, well after his mental illness had already subsided.

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A Note Regarding Spoilers

A

The following FAQ entries may contain spoilers. Only the biggest ones (if any) will be covered with spoiler tags. Spoiler tags have been used sparingly in order to make the page more readable.

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