A Beautiful Mind (2001) Trailer

The third film of the Film Adaptaations Month to be shown on July 21 at 18:00 is Ron Howard s A Beautiful Mind (2001). The film is based on the life of John Nash, a Nobel Laureate in Economics, who begins developing paranoid schizophrenia and endures delusional episodes while painfully watching the loss and burden his condition brings on his wife and friends. It received 4 Academy Awards. The film was inspired by a bestselling, Pulitzer Prizenominated 1998 book of the same name by Sylvia Nasar.