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A Beautiful Mind

A Beautiful Mind

2001
Romance, Drama
2h 15m
A human drama about the struggle of a true genius, inspired by events in the life of John Forbes Nash, Jr.

A Beautiful Mind

2001
Romance, Drama
2h 15m
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Rated 28 Jun 2019
92
84th
The complaints surrounding this movie's historical inaccuracies and portrayal of mental illness are valid. I like it anyway. Sue me.
Rated 01 Jun 2009
1
12th
I can't believe this movie won best picture. Opie was obviously gunning for Oscars and fooled a lot of people by producing some really melodramatic bullshit. Idiots will love this as it is a really simplistic view of a very complex disease that actually becomes offensive because they fuck it up so badly. It's really not surprising that the guy who wrote Batman & Robin wrote this either. hahaha, just realized the guy who wrote Batman & Robin has an Oscar. Epic fail Hollywood
Rated 07 Oct 2008
60
11th
1 of the few films I find dangerous. The message at the end of this film is irresponsibility of the highest order. Given the number of out-patients who stop taking their meds as soon as they feel better (and families who allow them to out of wishful thinking) this film's "We can get through my mental illness w/ love" message is almost criminal. If this movie makes you "feel good" keep that feeling in mind the next time you're disturbed by a "crazy" person in the street. Probably an outpatient.
Rated 27 Jan 2007
55
19th
I can't stand Russell Crowe in this role. Practically anyone else could've done a better job of playing a genius than god damn Russell Crowe. Also, half of the plot turning out to be the result of schizophrenic fantasies is about as sophisticated a narrative device as "It was all a dream!". Those issues, unfortunately, ruin what could've been a great movie.
Rated 28 Aug 2010
85
33rd
In my opinion, this was by far the best role Russell Crowe has played in his entire acting career. The movie was beautiful and tricky. The fact that it mirrored a true story also made it that much more attention grabbing. The thought that such a detrimental medical diagnoses of schizophrenia was overcome by this brilliant man made me believe that there should be no reason for any person to be unable to accomplish anything. Anyone interested in medical miracles should see this movie, immediately.
Rated 28 Aug 2010
90
33rd
A Beautiful mind captures the true individualism in ones irrational way in solving math problems. Born a genious, John Nash has always had a knack for numbers. Although I think his psychological is overplayed a little, Russle Crowe plays a very convincing skitsefrenic. I thought the plot was very well thought out along with the scenery of the film. The title, "A Beautiful mind" does not do this movie justice.
Rated 24 Feb 2007
35
21st
Very loosely inspired by the life of John Forbes Nash Jr. It uses stereotypes of schizophrenia to cater the the public's common perspection of it instead of trying to actually change it for the better. A shame because Crowe does deliver a solid performance as usual.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
20
6th
BAHAHAHAHAHA I'm supposed to believe that Russell Crowe is a genius? I'm sorry, I can't suspend my disbelief quite THAT far.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
30
3rd
Clunky direction that could only be Ron Howard's fault, this is quite possibly the worst picture to win Best Picture at the Oscars.
Rated 02 May 2007
13
10th
Love conquers all. Especially schizophrenia.
Rated 10 Sep 2018
82
74th
They avoided showing Jennifer Connelly when they got old because Ron Howard new it would be a damn shame to make Connelly look old.
Rated 04 Sep 2018
20
5th
Someone please tell Hollywood it's okay to portray smart people as actual humans and not "durr I formulated a deterministic algorithm regarding the movement of pigeons I love to use big words also I am socially awkward can I please have intercourse with your bodily fluids"
Rated 19 Dec 2010
87
66th
My favorite soundtrack
Rated 01 Aug 2009
80
84th
Don't care, I like it.
Rated 04 Oct 2008
35
18th
How did this EVER win the Best Picture Oscar?! I mean, come on! It was up against the spectacular Moulin Rouge, the best part of the LOTR trilogy, the unforgettable drama of In The Bedroom and yet another great Altman ensemble piece, Gosford Park. Four splendid films - two of them masterful. But no, let's award the plain, sobby biopic by the dude from Happy Days and penned by the writer of Batman & Robin. This will forever be beyond me, AMPAS.
Rated 05 May 2008
55
23rd
The academy is clueless, and I hate finding subgame Nash Equilibriums.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
40
9th
Embarassing - as Kate Winslet says 'You are guaranteed an Oscar if you play a mental'. A really offensive interpretation of mental illness and I could not believe this won the Best Picture Oscar. Yuck.
Rated 18 Mar 2007
68
38th
Nothing particularly bad or good about A Beautiful Mind. It's just another movie that really doesn't do a lot to seperate itself from the others just like it.
Rated 06 Mar 2007
72
55th
The guy was smart but the movie was not. Even Ed Harris can't save every movie.
Rated 01 Mar 2007
90
99th
Russell puts on a brilliant performance in this great story.This is a must see for any film fan.
Rated 02 Jan 2007
52
17th
Paul Bettany good, Russle Crowe not, Jennifer Connelly lovely to look at but underused. Valiant attempt to use maths in mainstream cinema.
Rated 23 Jan 2023
50
13th
This film is a reasonably well assembled big Hollywood film and I don't really believe even one second of it. I don't believe it's portrayal ob being a mathematician. I don't believe it's portrayal of being a college student. I don't believe it's portrayal of mental illness. I don't believe it's portrayal of marriage. It's a patently cloying and fictionalized version of a true story and I don't understand why anyone would bother telling such a ridiculous version of this man's story.
Rated 20 Sep 2018
59
61st
I know that I should scoff at all the common cliches and the horrendous understanding of mental illness this movie demonstrates but I did enjoy this, even if only a little.
Rated 24 Jan 2016
70
56th
Though I wouldn't have guessed it a best picture winner, A Beautiful Mind is interesting nonetheless. Though I wasn't a huge fan of Crowe in the role, the rest of the cast does a very good job and the script becomes pretty great about halfway through. I had a little problem with the direction but this seems in no way reflective of the director Howard becomes. It's a bit rough around the edges, but honestly it's a really interesting flick.
Rated 25 Oct 2012
95
83rd
I loved those more than I thought I would. One of Crowes best performances, it's also really well directed and written. A beautiful score and cinematography helps. Definitely watching if you haven't seen it.
Rated 18 Jun 2011
17
6th
Russell Crowe playing some sort of super-genius automatically puts this flick firmly in the "comedy" category... except there are no laughs. And it just gets worse as it goes on. There is nothing sympathetic whatsoever about Crowe, so when the audience is asked to empathize with his increasing problems, all is lost. More sappy, feel-good crap rewarded with multiple Oscars. The only element Crowe COULD have made believable--Nash's real-life bisexuality--was completely left out of the movie.
Rated 06 Jun 2011
86
77th
Crowe was his usual brilliant self, portraying an even more brilliant person. Cool story with very good acting and a chilling depiction of the life of someone with a genius IQ but a crippling mental illness.
Rated 26 Nov 2009
59
12th
Overrated, sentimental garbage.
Rated 24 Nov 2009
20
8th
I though that this was complete shite with the exception of Bettany. In fact it is typical Ron Howard Hollywollocks, with a massively oversimplified treatment of mental illness. You know the film is totally fucked when Ed Harris says that McCarthy was a bit of a nutter whose heart was in the right place. This says everything you need to know about the Oscars. Please, please, please don't make me watch this again....
Rated 08 Aug 2009
63
34th
Passes the time. The cold war paranoia was interesting, but of course the big twist comes and negates all that. The Hollywood-ized schizophrenia presented here is tedious and annoying. Crowe's good, but besides him this is mostly forgettable.
Rated 09 Apr 2009
50
67th
A throwback in style to Warner's biopics of the 30s on Louis Pasteur and others, with Crowe standing in for Paul Muni: a messy life is rendered in simple, bright colors and given the standard narrative trajectory of triumph over adversity.
Rated 21 Mar 2009
88
27th
Math doesn't work like this.
Rated 26 Jan 2009
82
68th
Crowe & Connelly give this a genuine heart with terrific performances. Howard's direction is solid & Deakins taps into his Shawshank vibes. Criticism of how the script handles some aspects of mental health are warranted, though Nash himself claims to have used methods of "rationalization" seen in the film. There are artistic liberties for dramatic sake, but they make for a more entertaining film. I'm also a sucker for the power of love, even if it comes off a little saccharine at times.
Rated 11 Oct 2008
60
35th
I remember hating the director for showing the imaginary characters and then showing the emptiness to emphasize that they're in fact, really non-existing but the by-products of "a beautiful mind". The story does not stick to the facts by the way. Yeah, kinda dumb overall and aims to get as many tears possible rather than respect and cinematic pleasure.
Rated 08 Sep 2008
53
26th
Generally not great. I won't even go into the real story VS film debate, but this is simply barely able to hold one's interest. It somehow makes a remarkable story unremarkable in every respect.
Rated 18 Jul 2008
60
22nd
It's OK, but not great. I hated the ending.
Rated 12 Jan 2008
42
24th
I'm testing game theory by giving this movie a dodgy rating. We'll see how Nash rates my bio-pic.
Rated 17 Sep 2007
92
99th
Fantastic acting. Great movie.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
4
44th
A schmaltzy, overcooked, melodramatic bit of (successful) Oscar bait. It's not horrible, because Crowe is a good actor and Ron Howard knows what he's doing behind a camera, but god is it melodramatic and riddled with cliche. (Alt. comedy review: "The fact that this won Best Picture makes me feel MENTALLY ILL!")
Rated 14 Aug 2007
11
15th
Overblown, melodramatic pap of the worst kind.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
2
21st
Dubious.
Rated 04 Aug 2007
65
21st
Capable, but boring Oscar baiting movie with big celebrity playing quirky historical person.
Rated 15 Jul 2007
48
44th
Transparently Oscar-hungry. Schizophrenia porn. Not very good.
Rated 26 Jun 2007
2
9th
Instead of just portraying Nash as a schizophrenic, Howard tries to take you inside the mind of one. The results, unsurprisingly, are laughable.
Rated 16 Feb 2007
40
3rd
Man, I hate this movie for the over appreciativeness of Rasel crow. as much as people love this movie for his acting I think he is crappy, and the more the movie relies on this unworthy appreciation the more it sucks.
Rated 05 Dec 2006
22
13th
Terrible. Boring, same thing that people have seen over and over agian.
Rated 02 Sep 2024
55
10th
too popular, romantic point of view on too grave issue. not able to capture the true torture of geniality and mantal illness.
Rated 22 Apr 2024
60
27th
Dr. Rosen: "Imagine if you suddenly learned that the people, the places, the moments most important to you were not gone, not dead, but worse, had never been. What kind of hell would that be?"
Rated 18 Jan 2024
74
53rd
Opinión personal: 7.5 Actores: 7.5 Guión: 7.5 Fotografía: 6 BSO: 8 Otros:7.25 Iluminación: FX:8 Director:6 Humor: Vestuario/caracterización:7 Ritmo:8 Total: 74
Rated 09 Nov 2023
29
12th
There was this guy and he was smart... like, super smart. And weird. Actually, he was so smart because he was so weird. But then he got too weird and it was sad. Eventually he learned to be not so weird. The End.
Rated 26 Oct 2023
80
90th
A great movie to be sure. It might seem inspirational for those suffering from mental illness, but the great things he achieved were before all done he became sick as a young man. After that he was just a passenger in life.
Rated 29 Aug 2023
80
14th
I don't love it as much as critics did at the time. Russell Crowe gives an outstanding and quiet performance that gives the film its heart, but aside from that, it's a little bit of a paint-by-numbers biopic that doesn't really force into much new territory.
Rated 12 Dec 2022
87
84th
"Perhaps it is good to have a beautiful mind, but an even greater gift is to discover a beautiful heart."
Rated 26 Oct 2022
3
9th
Argh.
Rated 11 Aug 2022
78
43rd
Fantastic movie but also slightly traumatizing for a 12 year old to watch. The sense with the baby in the bathtub??
Rated 17 Jul 2022
90
54th
great story. good watch.
Rated 21 Feb 2022
40
11th
Ben filmim diye bağırıyo bu film. Ayrıca zaman atlaması yapınca arada olan gelişmeleri yedirmek icin karakterlere anlamsız replikler yazılması çok saçma (bunun sinemada bir adı olmalı belki vardır) for ex: John’un bi arkadaşının tonton anane edasıyla gözlüklerinin üstünden bakarak kitabı gösterip dersin var demesi diğerinin de ‘MIT yarının dehalarını yetiştirmeni istiyor’ demesi.. O sırada ben: hımm anladım kankalar demek ki John MIT’de der vermeye başlamış teşekkürler..
Rated 15 Nov 2021
70
66th
I couldn't watch it again, but enjoyed it immensely at the time, painful as it was.
Rated 06 Aug 2021
85
82nd
John Nash, what a genius!
Rated 19 Feb 2021
95
58th
https://esperwatchesfilms.tumblr.com/post/643592681951543296/a-beautiful-mind-2001
Rated 17 Jan 2021
83
81st
Watched this movie from dvd after friends recommended it. Crowe and movie makers have done brilliant job to bring us a story from the mind of genius and schizophrenia. As i heard, this was not the way how Nash lived but remarkable story anyhow.
Rated 17 Oct 2020
85
90th
Top badass moment? Controlling your own mental health through the power of your own, eh, mind. This is a movie about a nerd with invisible friends, who does sums, writes graffiti all over school property, sounds like he's doing a bad impression of Connery's Bond and insults women in bars; and this earns him a Nobel prize for something or other. Whatever. I failed my A Level maths, but I've got a calculator in my phone and I don't even use half the buttons. No cats, chainsaws or decapitations.
Rated 28 Mar 2020
85
83rd
Yillar sonra yeniden izledim..en iyi biyografi örneklerinden. Russell crowe döktürmüs. Ölmeden önce izlense fena olmayacak filmlerdendir
Rated 11 Mar 2020
91
97th
Seen: 2.
Rated 12 Dec 2019
80
58th
Clever classic
Rated 21 Dec 2018
90
56th
Cheesy Hollywood, but somehow it works (Crowe's performance surprisingly transcends his terrible accent.)
Rated 08 May 2018
60
10th
Melodramatic trash that is so lazily written that the film couldn't even give a correct example of a Nash Equilibrium - the concept most of the film revolves around.
Rated 14 Apr 2018
70
53rd
2018/04/13
Rated 04 Mar 2018
30
4th
God they messed up such a good book and interesting story.
Rated 13 Nov 2017
86
72nd
BACK-FILLING WHOLE LOT OF FILMS NOT SEEN FOR A LONG, LONG TIME -> Recall/Scores may be 20-30% off. Not at all offended, grateful actually, if anyone wants 2 drop me a cordial msg if think memory dulled a gem or gave a rosy tint to clunker. IE. Tell me WHY Im wrong & what U think I should score. Love film chat/debate| Crowe has true acting talent & range. Yet, as film fades away in memory (16yrs now; ugh) like Nash I find Bettany looming FAR larger in recall than should. Stood out in v fine cast
Rated 10 Apr 2017
90
74th
I enjoyed this movie. Great story. Drama but not so deep that I would need to watch a happy movie after.
Rated 08 Jan 2017
90
93rd
Even though some liberties were taken in putting the story into film, this is a great example of how to make a great screen adaptation while keeping to the spirit of the source material. I was really drawn into this brilliant man's struggles.
Rated 21 Nov 2016
93
91st
great movie, especially since I saw this blind as a teenager before my movie plot prediction engine was in full force
Rated 26 Apr 2016
15
82nd
W4E1P2S1V2M1A2R2.
Rated 15 Mar 2016
90
87th
A moving portrait of John Nash and his battles with being crazy as fuck.
Rated 21 Feb 2016
8
36th
Star Rating: ★★
Rated 13 Feb 2016
84
92nd
This movie had a very relatable character, and the second half of the movie was especially fantastic.
Rated 16 Jan 2016
90
42nd
I like biographical movies and Russel Crowe's acting in each and every movie he plays, so this is a good movie. It has good messages and a debate about love between Crowe and Connelly, so I like this movie.
Rated 13 Nov 2015
76
58th
2015-11-13
Rated 06 Nov 2015
80
66th
I'm biased- I love a story about a mathematical genius. To be fair, this is a pretty great movie and Russell Crowe does a convincing job as the mentally ill John Nash. There are some moments of poor acting and questionable direction decisions, but it's handily worth a watch regardless of your preference in film.
Rated 03 Nov 2015
62
50th
I enjoyed it until the twist, then it became way too sappy and melodramatic.
Rated 10 Sep 2015
95
63rd
At first glance, A Beautiful Mind is an inspiring tale about a "genius" mathematician who struggles with severe mental problems. And as long as we can focus on that first glance, the film provides compelling entertainment.
Rated 26 Jul 2015
83
68th
A well-acted character study with some mystery elements... after the mystery is solved halfway through the story, however, the film loses some of its drama.
Rated 01 Jul 2015
85
33rd
Really a beautiful movie. The idea to keep it close to real kills the fun for some. Still, a great watch.
Rated 28 Mar 2015
65
58th
3.26/5
Rated 05 Dec 2014
62
75th
When they were coming around whacking people with the ugly stick, Jennifer Connelly wasn't just not at home but possibly on another planet. Oh, and the film's not bad either
Rated 01 Dec 2014
7
58th
Patrick accidentally spoiled this movie for me right when we started watching it. I hold no ill will for this, I still had a good time with this movie. Crowe and Connelly are really great in it. Check it out!
Rated 15 Nov 2014
52
15th
What have you done to Russell Crowe? He's not shouting and beating people to death. This is highly upsetting.
Rated 29 Oct 2014
40
20th
Russell Crowe is really cute and so is the effort put on this film
Rated 22 Oct 2014
90
98th
* Casting, Acting : 10 * Script : 8.5 * Directing, Aura : 9 * Ease of Viewing : 8.5 * Naked Eye : 9
Rated 12 Oct 2014
95
97th
Crowe is magnificent, and the whole film adds up to pure genius. A haunting score to boot.
Rated 09 Oct 2014
92
77th
(see, the ugliness of). Judged on what it comprises, this film is magical; but, poof! - where's the anti-Semitic bigotry? This was a point of contention during the film's theatrical run, but has receded, as the film has been mixed in the homogenizing hopper of dvd. The issue does nothing to dim the brilliance of Crowe's portrayal, another dynamic stretch in a constantly reaching range.
Rated 04 Aug 2014
2
17th
[Haven't watched whole movie] I did not like this film. It's pretentious and cold and written in a way that doesn't 'speak to me'. So I'm not interested in finishing it unless one of my friends wants to watch it or something.
Rated 28 Jul 2014
100
92nd
my favorite
Rated 29 Jun 2014
96
97th
One of the best ways to picture such a story.
Rated 16 Jun 2014
53
18th
Eh. It's ok. I probably wouldn't name it a Best Picture, but I've definietly seen worse.
Rated 02 May 2014
92
90th
Easily one of my favorite movies of all time. Truly moving and inspirational, a must see. This movie does a perfect job of putting you in the shoes of John Nash. You really feel the pain that he and others around him go through.
Rated 01 Apr 2014
85
76th
- 9/29/13
Rated 05 Jan 2014
90
87th
:D
Rated 03 Jan 2014
77
52nd
The well-acted A Beautiful Mind is both a moving love story and a revealing look at mental illness.

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