"A Beautiful Mind (film) A Beautiful Mind is a 2001 American biographical drama film based on the life of John Nash, a Nobel Laureate in Economics. The film was directed by Ron Howard, from a screenplay written by Akiva Goldsman. It was inspired by a bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-nominated 1998 book of the same name by Sylvia Nasar. The film stars Russell Crowe, along with Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Paul Bettany, Adam Goldberg, Judd Hirsch, Josh Lucas, Anthony Rapp, and Christopher Plummer in supporting roles. The story begins in Nash's days as a graduate student at Princeton University. Early in the"
"name starring Russell Crowe as Nash. On May 23, 2015, Nash and his wife Alicia were killed in a car crash while riding in a taxi on the New Jersey Turnpike. Nash was born on June 13, 1928, in Bluefield, West Virginia. His father, John Forbes Nash, was an electrical engineer for the Appalachian Electric Power Company. His mother, Margaret Virginia (née Martin) Nash, had been a schoolteacher before she was married. He was baptized in the Episcopal Church. He had a younger sister, Martha (born November 16, 1930). Nash attended kindergarten and public school, and he learned from books"
"of John Nash, including Bruce Willis, Kevin Costner, John Travolta, Tom Cruise. Howard ultimately cast Russell Crowe. The narrative of the film differs considerably from the events of Nash's life, as filmmakers made choices for the sense of the story. The film has been criticized for this aspect, but the filmmakers said they never intended a literal representation of his life. One difficulty was the portrayal of his mental illness and trying to find a film visual language for this. Sylvia Nasar said that the filmmakers ""invented a narrative that, while far from a literal telling, is true to the"
"family and a son born out of wedlock. However, the filmmakers have stated that the film was not meant to be a literal representation of Nash's life. In 1947, John Nash arrives at Princeton University. He is a co-recipient, with Martin Hansen, of the prestigious Carnegie Scholarship for mathematics. At a reception, he meets a group of other promising math and science graduate students, Richard Sol, Ainsley, and Bender. He also meets his roommate Charles Herman, a literature student. Nash is under extreme pressure to publish, but he wants to publish his own original idea. His inspiration comes when he"
"This was done to rob the viewers of their understanding, to mimic how Nash comprehended his experiences. Howard agreed to direct the film based on the first draft. He asked Goldsman to emphasize the love story of Nash and his wife; she was critical to his being able to continue living at home. Dave Bayer, a professor of Mathematics at Barnard College, Columbia University, was consulted on the mathematical equations that appear in the film. For the scene where Nash has to teach a calculus class and gives them a complicated problem to keep them busy, Bayer chose a problem"
"Nash learns to ignore his hallucinations. By the late 1970s, he is allowed to teach again. In 1994, Nash wins the Nobel Prize in Economics for his revolutionary work on game theory, and is honored by his fellow professors. The movie ends as Nash, Alicia, and their son leave the auditorium in Stockholm; Nash sees Charles, Marcee, and Parcher standing to one side and watching him. After producer Brian Grazer first read an excerpt of Sylvia Nasar's book ""A Beautiful Mind"" in ""Vanity Fair"" magazine, he immediately purchased the rights to the film. He eventually brought the project to director"
"$2,683,893 overseas. It had a total worldwide gross of $7,103,973. In 2014, the ""Los Angeles Times"" listed the film as one of the most expensive box office flops of all time. The film performed better on DVD, with US DVD rental gross of $24,983,000, but is yet to be released on Blu-ray. The Adventures of Pluto Nash The Adventures of Pluto Nash is a 2002 American science fiction action comedy film directed by Ron Underwood and starring Eddie Murphy (in a dual role), Randy Quaid, Rosario Dawson, Joe Pantoliano, Jay Mohr, Luis Guzmán, James Rebhorn, Peter Boyle, Pam Grier and"
"spirit of Nash's story"". Nash spent his years between Princeton and MIT as a consultant for the RAND Corporation in California, but in the film he is portrayed as having worked for the Department of Defense at the Pentagon instead. His handlers, both from faculty and administration, had to introduce him to assistants and strangers. The PBS documentary ""A Brilliant Madness"" tried to portray his life accurately. Few of the characters in the film, besides John and Alicia Nash, correspond directly to actual people. The discussion of the Nash equilibrium was criticized as over-simplified. In the film, Nash suffers schizophrenic"
"which ultimately saves his life. Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner Karen Black (""Five Easy Pieces"" and ""The Great Gatsby"") plays a stern university professor. Joshua's college friends are played by Lindsay Pulsipher (HBO's ""True Blood"", A&E's ""The Beast"") and Nathan Rollins. The screenplay is based on a story by playwright, composer, physicist, and mathematician Jeffrey Gold. The film features the lighthouse Pemaquid Point Light and surrounding coastal areas and towns of Maine and music by popular Maine native, Tim Janis (known for his numerous specials on the American Public Broadcasting Service). The film was directed by George Fivas,"
"point of view. The historic John Nash had only auditory delusions. The filmmakers developed a technique to represent Nash's mental epiphanies. Mathematicians described to them such moments as a sense of ""the smoke clearing"", ""flashes of light"" and ""everything coming together"", so the filmmakers used a flash of light appearing over an object or person to signify Nash's creativity at work. Two night shots were done at Fairleigh Dickinson University's campus in Florham Park, New Jersey, in the Vanderbilt Mansion ballroom. Portions of the film set at Harvard were filmed at Manhattan College. Many actors were considered for the role"
"The Adventures of Pluto Nash The Adventures of Pluto Nash is a 2002 American science fiction action comedy film directed by Ron Underwood and starring Eddie Murphy (in a dual role), Randy Quaid, Rosario Dawson, Joe Pantoliano, Jay Mohr, Luis Guzmán, James Rebhorn, Peter Boyle, Pam Grier and John Cleese. The film was released in the United States on August 16, 2002. The film received overwhelmingly negative reviews and is notable for being one of the biggest box office bombs in history and a critical and financial failure. By the end of the 21st century, mankind has established itself on"
"(Jim Sturgess), a mathematics major at MIT, is accepted into Harvard Medical School but cannot afford the $300,000 tuition. He applies for the prestigious Robinson Scholarship which would cover the entire cost. However, despite having an MCAT score of 44 and high grades, he faces fierce competition, and is told by the director that the scholarship will only go to whichever student dazzles him. Back at MIT, Professor Micky Rosa (Kevin Spacey) challenges Ben with the Monty Hall Problem which he solves successfully. After looking at Ben's 97% score on his latest non-linear equations test, Rosa invites Ben to join"
"was trying hard to have her sent to a mental care facility again. She said that she would ""rather die or go to prison than go to a mental hospital."" Ruth Seegrist said she had seen ""A Beautiful Mind"", a 2001 biographical drama film about John Nash, a Princeton math professor and Nobel laureate who also was schizophrenic. ""I thought it was very well done,"" Seegrist said. ""When a person is so delusional – at first he thought it all was real, but it really was in his mind."" Ruth Seegrist said ""I really believe she belongs in the forensic"
"to stop the invention of something terrible was inspired by Manhattan Project physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who complained to Harry S. Truman about the 1945 atomic bombings of Japan. In Cambridge, Massachusetts, MIT cryogenics researchers Jason Nichols (Joseph Fuqua) and Lucas Menand (Jed Rees) become embroiled in an argument as they walk down a city street. They are approached by an old man (Michael Fairman), who warns Menand that he will be run over by a bus at 11:46 pm that evening, but Menand ignores him. After the man is arrested by campus security, his prophecy is proven true when"
"the actor who plays Colby Granger, has earned a bachelor's degree in environmental engineering from MIT. Films set at MIT are less common than those that use the MIT name as metaphor. Nevertheless, MIT has been part of movie settings, in such films as ""Blown Away"" (1994), ""Good Will Hunting"" (1997), ""A Beautiful Mind"" (2001), ""21"" (2008), and ""Knowing"" (which also features exteriors of the Haystack Observatory). Most of the scenes for these movies, especially indoor scenes, are in fact filmed elsewhere due to MIT's reluctance to give permission to film on campus. Although portions of ""Blown Away"" were shot"
"in a ""real-time"" context. It currently holds a 9% rating on Rotten Tomatoes; despite this, it proved to be a moderate box office success, grossing a domestic total of $14,255,801 on a $9 million budget. The Ice Pirates The Ice Pirates is a 1984 comic science fiction film directed by Stewart Raffill, who co-wrote the screenplay with ""Krull"" writer Stanford Sherman. The film stars Robert Urich, Mary Crosby and Michael D. Roberts; other notable featured actors are Anjelica Huston, Ron Perlman, Bruce Vilanch, John Carradine, and former football player John Matuszak. The film takes place in a distant future where"
"against the often-romanticized backdrop of Depression-era New York City. He has been honored by election to the United States National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the International Academy of Astronautics, and awarded an honorary doctorate from Brown University. He has received many awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship. He recently served on the Committee on America’s Energy Future of the United States National Research Council. Ronald F. Probstein Ronald F. Probstein (born March 11, 1928) is the Ford Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He played"
"film ""A Beautiful Mind"", the biopic of John Nash, and also had a cameo as one of the ""Pen Ceremony"" professors. Dave Bayer David Allen Bayer (born November 29, 1955) is an American mathematician known for his contributions in algebra and symbolic computation and for his consulting work in the movie industry. He is a professor of mathematics at Barnard College, Columbia University. Bayer was educated at Swarthmore College as an undergraduate, where he attended a course on combinatorial algorithms given by Herbert Wilf. During that semester, Bayer related several original ideas to Wilf on the subject. These contributions were"
"a technical box-office failure, earning back only $5.2 million of its $12 million budget. The son of a depressed but doting mother (Hope Davis) and a father who is serving time for tax evasion, wealthy teenager Charlie Bartlett (Anton Yelchin) — after being expelled from several private academies for various infractions — enrolls in a public school run by embittered alcoholic Principal Nathan Gardner (Robert Downey Jr.), who was formerly a history teacher. Unable to fit in with most of his fellow students, Charlie is diagnosed with ADHD. He forms an alliance with school bully Murphy Bivens (Tyler Hilton) and"
"Rotten Tomatoes based on 85 reviews with the consensus stating: """"The Skulls"" is full of nonsense and empty of a good script and plot"". The film opened at #3 at the North American box office, making US$11,034,885 in its opening weekend, behind ""The Road to El Dorado"" and ""Erin Brockovich"". The Skulls (film) The Skulls is a 2000 American psychological thriller film directed by Rob Cohen and starring Joshua Jackson, Paul Walker and Leslie Bibb. Its plot is based upon some of the conspiracy theories surrounding Yale University's Skull and Bones student society. The film was critically panned, but successful"
"million against a production budget of $12 million. In 2014, 17-year-old high school senior and aspiring inventor David Raskin (Jonny Weston) is admitted into MIT, but is unable to afford its tuition fees. Upon learning his mother, Kathy Raskin (Amy Landecker), is planning to sell the house to help pay for his college, David enlists his sister Christina (Virginia Gardner) and his friends Adam Le (Allen Evangelista) and Quinn Goldberg (Sam Lerner) to sift through the belongings of his father Ben Raskin (Gary Weeks), an inventor who died in a car crash on David's seventh birthday, in the hope of"
"broken down by the number of years that would pass between levels. Cannom stressed subtlety between the stages, but worked toward the ultimate stage of ""Older Nash"". The production team originally decided that the makeup department would age Russell Crowe throughout the film; however, at Crowe's request, the makeup was used to push his look to resemble the facial features of John Nash. Cannom developed a new silicone-type makeup that could simulate skin and be used for overlapping applications; this shortened make-up application time from eight to four hours. Crowe was also fitted with a number of dentures to give"
"He is the brother of actor Brian Bloom, and musician Mike Bloom. Scott Bloom Scott Matthew Bloom (born July 28, 1973) is an American actor and film producer. Bloom was born in Merrick, New York. He began acting in film and television at a young age, starring in the cult horror film ""The Stuff"" (1985) and subsequently appeared in numerous TV serials and TV movies including the role of Jesse Nash in the popular sitcom ""Who's the Boss?"" from 1987 to 1988. Scott's movie credits as an actor include roles in ""Don's Plum"" (2001) with Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire,"
"""L.A. Confidential"" (1997), """" (2003), ""Cinderella Man"" (2005), ""American Gangster"" (2007), ""State of Play"" (2009), ""Robin Hood"" (2010), ""Les Misérables"" (2012), ""Man of Steel"" (2013) and ""Noah"" (2014). In 2015, Crowe made his directorial debut with ""The Water Diviner"", in which he also starred. Crowe's work has earned him several accolades during his career and including a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, three consecutive Academy Award nominations (1999–2001), one Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, one BAFTA, and an Academy Award. Crowe has also been the co-owner of the National Rugby League (NRL) team South Sydney Rabbitohs since"
"was also nominated for Worst Screen Combo and Worst Screenplay. Childhood friends Reed Richards and Ben Grimm have worked together on a prototype teleporter since youth, eventually attracting the attention of Professor Franklin Storm, director of the Baxter Foundation, a government-sponsored research institute for young prodigies. Reed is recruited to join them and aid Storm's children, scientist Sue Storm and engineer Johnny Storm, into completing a ""Quantum Gate"" designed by Storm's protégé Victor von Doom. The experiment is successful, and the facility's supervisor, Dr. Allen, plans to send a group from NASA to venture into a parallel dimension known as"
"begs her to stay. Nash tells her that he realizes that he has never seen Marcee age, even though he has known her for three years. He finally accepts that Parcher and other figures are hallucinations. Against Dr. Rosen's advice, Nash decides not to restart his medication, believing that he can deal with his symptoms himself. Alicia decides to stay and support him in this. Nash returns to Princeton and approaches his old rival, Hansen, now head of the mathematics department. Hansen grants Nash permission to work out of the library and to audit classes. Over the next two decades,"
"film, Nash begins to develop paranoid schizophrenia and endures delusional episodes while watching the burden his condition brings on wife Alicia and friends. The film opened in the United States cinemas on December 21, 2001. It went on to gross over $313 million worldwide and won four Academy Awards, for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress. It was also nominated for Best Actor, Best Film Editing, Best Makeup and Best Original Score. It was well received by critics, but has been criticized for its inaccurate portrayal of some aspects of Nash's life, especially his other"
"starring John Travolta. Chuck Russell Charles ""Chuck"" Russell (born May 9, 1958) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and actor, known for his work on several genre films. Some of Russell's best known films include the slasher fantasy film """", the 1988 remake of the 1958 monster horror film ""The Blob"", the fantasy superhero comedy film ""The Mask"", the action film ""Eraser"", and the action-adventure ""The Scorpion King"". Russell also executive produced the critically acclaimed Michael Mann-directed neo-noir crime thriller ""Collateral"". Russell was born in Park Ridge, Illinois and grew up in Chicago. He attended Maine South High School"
"The Skulls (film) The Skulls is a 2000 American psychological thriller film directed by Rob Cohen and starring Joshua Jackson, Paul Walker and Leslie Bibb. Its plot is based upon some of the conspiracy theories surrounding Yale University's Skull and Bones student society. The film was critically panned, but successful enough to spawn two direct-to-video sequels, ""The Skulls II"" (2002) and ""The Skulls III"" (2004). Luke McNamara (Joshua Jackson) is a student with aspirations to become a lawyer. A ""townie"" who grew up on the ""wrong side of the tracks"", he did well enough in school to attend college on"
"renewed their relationship. Beginning in 1970, Alicia allowed him to live with her as a boarder. They remarried in 2001. Nash is shown to join Wheeler Laboratory at MIT, but there is no such lab. Instead, he was appointed as C. L. E. Moore instructor at MIT. The so-called pen ceremony tradition at Princeton shown in the film is completely fictitious. The film has Nash saying in 1994: ""I take the newer medications"", but in fact, he did not take any medication from 1970 onwards, something highlighted in Nasar's biography. Howard later stated that they added the line of dialogue"
"While Keanu Reeves and Harrison Ford both had major roles in action science fiction films (""The Matrix"" and ""Blade Runner"", respectively), they later branched out into a number of other action genres, such as action-adventure films. American actor Matt Damon, who was nominated for an Academy Award for his sensitive portrayal of a math genius working as a janitor in ""Good Will Hunting"", later morphed into an action hero with the car-chase-and-gunfire-filled ""Jason Bourne"" franchise. Same thing happened to star Tom Cruise, who turned into a mature action star with the , ""Jack Reacher"", and other films. Leonardo DiCaprio is"
"is one of the founders of Uber. Guy Kawasaki (MBA '79) is one of the earliest employees at Apple. Nathan Myhrvold is the founder of Microsoft Research. Venture capitalist, author and futurist Donald Prell (BA '48) founder of Datamation magazine. UCLA alumni have also achieved prominence in the arts and entertainment. John Williams is laureate conductor at the Boston Pops Orchestra and Academy Award-winning composer of the ""Star Wars"" film score. Martin Sherwin ('71) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for ""American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer"". Actors Ben Stiller, Tim Robbins, James Franco, George Takei, Mayim"
"Scott Bloom Scott Matthew Bloom (born July 28, 1973) is an American actor and film producer. Bloom was born in Merrick, New York. He began acting in film and television at a young age, starring in the cult horror film ""The Stuff"" (1985) and subsequently appeared in numerous TV serials and TV movies including the role of Jesse Nash in the popular sitcom ""Who's the Boss?"" from 1987 to 1988. Scott's movie credits as an actor include roles in ""Don's Plum"" (2001) with Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire, ""John Q"" (2002) with Denzel Washington and Robert Duvall, and ""Smokin' Aces"""