'Beautiful Mind': A Terrible Thing to Waste

From: The Washington Post | Date: December 21, 2001 | Copyright information

"A BEAUTIFUL Mind," based on the life of mathematician and Nobel Prize winner John Forbes Nash Jr., is about the beauty of thinking outside the box. Follow the content of the movie, which includes a strong performance by Russell Crowe, and you might enjoy this picture all the way.

But director Ron Howard fails to apply the outside-the-box approach to his own movie. Instead of an originally conceived movie that reflects Nash's troubled but brilliant mind, we have one of those formulaica...

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