RON HOWARD'S `BEAUTIFUL MIND'.(Spotlight)

From: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) | Date: December 22, 2001 | Copyright information

Byline: Robert Denerstein News Film Critic

Consider the odds. What are the chances that a populist director such as Ron Howard, whose best work can be seen in small dramas such as Parenthood and big epics such as Apollo 13, would make a movie about a mathematical genius?

Well, the improbable has happened. Howard's A Beautiful Mind, based on the life of mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr., arrives on screens Tuesday in what could be Howard's most psychologically complex movie to date.

Beautiful Mind takes its title and much of its substance from Sylvia Nasar's ...

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