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A Beautiful Mind (2001) is an American biographical drama film directed by Ron Howard. It's to some extent based on mathematician and Nobel laureate John Forbes Nash Jr.'s life. The film stars Russell Crowe as John Nash, Ed Harris as William Parcher and Jennifer Connelly as Alicia Nash. Nash feels followed by Soviet agents after beginning to work on secret cryptographic tasks during the Cold War.

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Were the men walking in the quad a hallucination as well?

In the 2001 movie A Beautiful Mind Charles (who is a hallucination of John Nash) smashed the latter's desk through the window to the snowy quad. Then two men who were walking in the quad were shocked ...
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Why don't John Nash's delusional persons age?

In the 2001 movie A Beautiful Mind John Nash has schizophrenia and he sees unreal persons (his roommate, his roommate's niece, and a dangerous spy). He realizes he has the disease in 1953 and starts ...
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Which board game does Nash play in the movie "A Beautiful Mind"? [closed]

In the movie A Beautiful Mind, around the 9th minute, what is the name of the game they play? Why is Nash so surprised at losing this game?
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