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A Beautiful Mind

Ron Howard · 2001 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

A Princeton graduate student with no gift for company chases an original idea in governing dynamics and finds it watching his classmates fail to approach a woman in a bar. Years on he is decoding Soviet transmissions out of magazines for a man from the Defense Department, and his wife starts noticing what he carries home. Howard's Oscar sweep drew objections for how much of the mathematician's life it left out.

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