Great insight into mental illness...short on facts.

Rating: 7/10 (7 April 2002)

A Beautiful Mind, if presented as fiction, would have impressed me more. A great film that suffered an unfortunate blemish of not being true to the facts of the life that it represented--that of John Nash. Mental Illness needs to be understood, Beautiful Mind did a pretty admirable job of taking the often quieted nightmare of the former and portraying in a manner that seems comprehensible to the viewer.
Still, the facts of John Nash's life don't match the story. Too much Hollywood got in the way. "Moulin Rouge" was a superior picture, and deserved BEST PICTURE honors of Beautiful Mind in the 2002 Oscars.