After a brilliant but asocial mathematician accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn to the nightmarish. br br Director: br Ron Howard br Writers: br Akiva Goldsman, Sylvia Nasar (book) br Stars: br Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly | See full cast and crew br br Storyline br br A biopic of the meteoric rise of John Forbes Nash Jr., a math prodigy able to solve problems that baffled the greatest of minds. And how he overcame years of suffering through schizophrenia to win the Nobel Prize.