A Beautiful Mind
Director: Ron Howard
Cast: Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Adam Goldberg, Paul Bettany
From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash, Jr. experiences it all. A mathematical genius, he made an astonishing discovery early in his career and stood on the brink of international acclaim. But the handsome and arrogant Nash soon found himself on a painful and harrowing journey of self-discovery once he was diagnosed with schizophrenia. After many years of struggle, he eventually triumphed over this tragedy, and finally, late in life, received the Nobel Prize.
The Curse of the Jade Scorpio
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Woody Allen, Helen Hunt, Charlize Theron, Brian Markinson, Dan Aykroyd
Woody Allen stars as CW Briggs, the top insurance investigator in New York in 1940 - or so he keeps telling the firm's new efficiency expert, Betty Ann "Fitz" Fitzgerald. Briggs prides himself on being able to crack any insurance caper by getting into the mind of the thief, but now, thanks to the hypnotic powers of the Jade Scorpion, the mind of a thief is getting into Briggs.