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A Beautiful Mind: Ron Howard
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A Beautiful Mind is a slick but conventional film which delivers the expected ingredients of this kind of film with a couple of minor twists which make it above average. Howard proves once again to be one of the most dependable artisans in Hollywood, turning out yet another well-crafted audience-pleasing genre piece. Whether this makes him the best director of the year or not is, again, another question.
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With its exemplary story, solid cast and Ron Howard at the helm, A Beautiful Mind proudly carries its image as head of the class. Though it's difficult to remain insensitive to such an inspiring narrative, one can't help but regret that too often this heavy production ends up feeling like a family TV movie.
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Producer Brian Grazer first read an excerpt of Sylvia Nasar's book A Beautiful Mind in Vanity Fair magazine. Grazer immediately purchased the rights to the film.[1] He eventually brought the project to Ron Howard, who had scheduling conflicts and was forced to pass. Grazer later said that many A-list directors were calling with their point of view on the project. He eventually focused on a particular director, who coincidentally was only available at the same time Howard was available. Grazer was forced to make a decision and chose Howard.[1]
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The Beautiful Mind DVD is loaded with extras -- two discs worth, in fact -- and the highlight is Ron Howard's feature commentary along with his comments about about 20 minutes worth of interesting deleted scenes. Even if you don't think the film is worthy of being named the best picture of 2001, you'll probably find a new respect for the movie somewhere in this disc set. (That said, footage of Nash's real-world Nobel Prize acceptance is not going to do it.)
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