can someone give me the summary of the film A BEAUTIFUL MIND?

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A Beautiful mind is a somewhat fictionalized account of the life of John Nash, a Carnegie Prize winner for mathematics. His brilliance, however, can do nothing to stop his desent into schizophrenia. He has several treatments, including insulin shock therapy and antipsychotic medications, but they produce terrible sides effects, namely hallucinations of "people". He and his wife (played by Jennifer Connelly, who won a best-supporting actress Oscar for this role) decide to endure the schizophrenia rather than the effects of the meds (at one point in the film, Nash is bathing their infant son and leaves him in the tub alone. He tells his wife that "Charley" (his hallucinatory friend) is watching the baby. She barely manages to save the child before he drowns). He struggles to cope with his condition, still experiences hallucinations from time to time, tries newer meds, and manages to restablish himself as a professor. The film ends with Nash and his wife leaving an auditorium in Stockholm, when Nash sees his three hallucinatory "friends" smiling at him. When his wife asks what's wrong, he smiles and says "Nothing". We're left to ponder whether that means that he's come to terms and made peace with his demons, or if this is indication that he'll have more episodes to come. A powerful film, but much of it is based on screenwriter Akiva Goldsman's knowledge growing up as the son of a child psychologist who had emtionally disturbed children living with them. Several parts of this story are fictionalized, so if you need to review and summarize the film, that's one thing. But for John Nash's actual story, I'd advise reading the book as well.

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A Beautiful Mind Summary

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You can get a plot summary of just about any popular movie at imdb.com. Type the movie's name in the search box, click on the search result you want, and when the unique movie's page comes up, look for the Plot Outline heading. Start reading and click the "more" link to the right.

A Beautiful Mind has 3 summaries at:
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A tidbit: Sometimes I read Technology Review, which is the MIT Alumni/Alumnae magazine. A few years ago (2004?), I was flipping through an issue, galancing at notes sent by graduates. Sometimes it's by year, others by Course (your major). Under Physics, there was a brief mention of Alicia, about 50 years after she graduated.

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A Beautiful Mind:
The true story of prominent mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr. is the subject of this biographical drama from director Ron Howard. Russell Crowe stars as the brilliant but arrogant and conceited professor Nash. The prof seems guaranteed a rosy future in the early '50s after he marries beautiful student Alicia (Jennifer Connelly) and makes a remarkable advancement in the foundations of "game theory," which carries him to the brink of international acclaim. Soon after, John is visited by Agent William Parcher (Ed Harris), from the CIA, who wants to recruit him for code-breaking activities. But evidence suggests that Nash's perceptions of reality are cloudy at best; he is struggling to maintain his tenuous hold on sanity, and Alicia suspects a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia. Battling decades of illness with the loyal Alicia by his side, Nash is ultimately able to gain some control over his mental state, and eventually goes on to triumphantly win the Nobel Prize. Based loosely on the book of the same name by Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind (2001) co-stars Paul Bettany, Adam Goldberg, Anthony Rapp, Christopher Plummer, and Judd Hirsch.

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A biopic of the meteoric rise of John Forbes Nash Jr., a math prodigy able to solve problems that baffled the greatest of minds. And how he overcame years of suffering through schizophrenia to win the Nobel Prize. Written by Anonymous

From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash, Jr. experienced it all. A mathematical genius, he made an astonishing discovery early in his career and stood on the brink of international acclaim. But the handsome and arrogant Nash soon found himself on a painful and harrowing journey of self-discovery. After many years of struggle, he eventually triumphed over his tragedy, and finally - late in life - received the Nobel Prize. Written by Universal Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures

At Princeton University, John Nash struggles to make a worthwhile contribution to serve as his legacy to the world of mathematics. He finally makes a revolutionary breakthrough that will eventually earn him the Nobel Prize. After graduate school he turns to teaching, becoming romantically involved with his student Alicia. Meanwhile the government asks his help with breaking Soviet codes, which soon gets him involved in a terrifying conspiracy plot. Nash grows more and more paranoid until a discovery that turns his entire world upside down. Now it is only with Alicia's help that he will be able to recover his mental strength and regain his status as the great mathematician we know him as today.

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John Forbes Nash is a man who is a mathematician he goes Princeton university and meets a roommate he even gets to work for the government doing top secret work. But there is only one problem according to John's records he has no roommate and has never been trained to to top secret work for the government his wife Alica Nash finds out his odd behavior and calls a Psychiatrist named Dr. Rosen at his mathematics conference he gets out of hand and is taken to a psychiatric hospital and later diagnosed with Schizophrenia. As he lives on he notices his hallucinations are not real and soon he starts to ignore them. This movie is a wonderful movie. I hope you get to see it it can hardly stay on the shelf at my local library. Best of luck! :)

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Melody it's an overrated rubbish film with the ugly monkey faced Russell Crowe.

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Mainly a maths genius that goes over the top, good acting but the story is a bit far fetched

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