Truly excellent.

Rating: Null/10 (28 June 2002)

A BEAUTIFUL MIND deserves every last one of the Oscars it won. I think it should have won more.
A BEAUTIFUL MIND is not a biography. It tells the story of John Nash, a true genius by all definitions of the word, and more specifically, of his terrible struggle with the psychological disease schizophrenia.
Russell Crowe gives a brilliant performance as John Nash. He deserved to win the Best Actor Oscar, but it was instead given to Denzel Washington for TRAINING DAY, because Hollywood was not yet ready to give Russell Crowe back-to-back Oscars and thereby "canonize" him.
Jennifer Connelley co-stars as Alicia, Nash's wife. She, too, is brilliant. (I am a bit surprised she won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. It seemed to me she was in a leading role here.)
My aunt suffers from schizophrenia. Although I have previously seen her while she was having a schizophrenic "attack," I had never understood what she truly felt and saw until I saw this film. (I must say, though, that this film does not show some of the enormous side-effects of schizophrenic medication.)
This film is one to be cherished. It takes it place alongside RAIN MAN and other wonderful, moving films.
(Please note that this film is PG-13. It shows, often intensely, what the effects of schizophrenia are on a person. It also has some mild humorous sex-related dialogue and some profanity. Mostly because of the intense elements of schizophrenia, it is probably not best to show this film to children under 14.)