Crowe gives the performance of his career

Rating: 8/10 (28 December 2001)

This film, from director Ron Howard, is about real life math genius John Nash (expertly played by Russell Crowe) and his decent into paranoid-schizophrenia. The film works primarily because it comes at us from Nash's point of view so we as the audience are equally shocked to discover that characters that we had seen him interacting with are nothing more than figments of his imagination. Crowe is brilliant in this part, really making what could be an overdone role in the hands of a lesser actor, in to something quite compelling. Jennifer Connelly as his long suffering wife also delivers the performance of her career. GRADE: A