The plot for the movie "A Beautiful Mind" "A Beautiful Mind" stars Russell Crowe who plays a mathematician suffering from schizophrenia. His slow decent into madness takes place at a time when he should be having the best years of his life. He attends graduate school, meets a girl, falls in love and has a baby. All of these things are taking place at a time when many people did not even know what schizophrenia was. Eventually, he winds up getting some of the help he needs (after an almost fatal incident with his son), and with the help of his wife, he overcomes this mental disease and wins a Nobel Prize.