<P> 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 film , Nash begins to develop paranoid schizophrenia and endures delusional episodes while painfully watching the loss and burden his condition brings on wife Alicia and friends . </P>
<P> 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 film , Nash begins to develop paranoid schizophrenia and endures delusional episodes while painfully watching the loss and burden his condition brings on wife Alicia and friends . </P>
who was the movie a beautiful mind based on
who was the movie a beautiful mind based on
John Nash
John Nash