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Description: John Nash is a brilliant but asocial mathematician fighting schizophrenia. After he accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.

Cast:
John Nash: Russell Crowe
Parcher: Ed Harris
Alicia Nash: Jennifer Connelly
Dr. Rosen: Christopher Plummer
Charles: Paul Bettany
Sol: Adam Goldberg
Hansen: Josh Lucas
Bender: Anthony Rapp
Ainsley: Jason Gray-Stanford
Helinger: Judd Hirsch
Thomas King: Austin Pendleton
Marcee: Vivien Cardone
Bar Co-Ed (as Jill M. Simon): Jillie Simon
Professor Horner: Victor Steinbach
Becky: Tanya Clarke
Captain: Thomas F. Walsh
General: Jesse Doran
Analyst: Kent Cassella
MIT Student: Reed Penney
Photographer: John Blaylock
Governor: Roy Thinnes
Young Man: Anthony Easton
Harvard Administrator: Cheryl Howard
White-Haired Patient: Rance Howard
Code-Red Nurse (as JJ Chaback): Jane Jenkins
Adjunct: Darius Stone
Princeton Professor: Josh Pais
Toby: Alex Toma
Joyce: Valentina Cardinalli
Young Professor: Teagle F. Bougere
John Nash Jr. - Teenager: David B. Allen
John Nash Jr. - Young Man: Michael Esper
Girl at Bar (as Catharina Eva Burkley): Eva Burkley
Blond in Bar: Amy Walz
Brunette: Holly Pitrago
Pen Ceremony Professor: Russell Gibson
Pen Ceremony Professor (as Thomas C. Allen): Tommy Allen
Pen Ceremony Professor (as Ed Jupp): Ed Jupp Jr.
Princeton Student: Erik Van Wyck
Insulin Treatment Nurse: Betsy Klompus
Technician: Alex Lorre
Princeton Library Tutor: Michael Abbott Jr.
Army Captain: Michael Arthur
Student: Jarred Treiber
Professor: Ned Stuart
Harvard Student: Sean Reid
Nobel Prize Attendee: James Thomas Bligh
College Student: Rich Bryant
Nobel Prize Ceremony Guest: Dan Chen
Doctor: Ty Copeman
Princeton Tutor '78: Berly Ellis
Mental Patient: Jonah Falcon
Trent Humphres: Scott Fernstrom
Man at Gouverners Ball: Todd Fredericks
Man at Governors' Ball: Ron Howard
Man at Nobel Ceremony: Charles McClelland
Bar Patron: Jon M. McDonnell
Noisey Construction Worker: Nick Oddo
Bartender: Charles Pendelton
Radio Operator: Michael C. Pierce
Soldier: Brian Smyj
Campus Cop: Dave Sweeney
Student Admirer: Alessandro Tanaka
Shadow Figure: John H. Tobin
Army Soldier: Michael Tota
Princeton Math Grad: Ryan Tygh
Construction Chief: James Whalen
Award Ceremony Bystander: Warner Wolf

Written by: Akiva Goldsman, Sylvia Nasar

Director: Ron Howard

Production: Universal Pictures, DreamWorks Pictures, Imagine Entertainment

Release date: 04 Jan 2002

Box Office: $170,742,341