a beautiful mind is a 2001 american biographical drama film based on the life of john nash , a nobel laureate in economics .

the film was directed by ron howard , from a screenplay written by akiva goldsman .

it was inspired by a bestselling , pulitzer prize-nominated 1998 book of the same name by sylvia nasar .

the film stars russell crowe , along with ed harris , jennifer connelly , paul bettany , adam goldberg , judd hirsch , josh lucas , anthony rapp , and christopher plummer in supporting roles .

the story begins in nash 's days as a graduate student at princeton university .

early in the film , nash begins to develop paranoid schizophrenia and endures delusional episodes while painfully watching the loss and burden his condition brings on wife alicia and friends .

the film opened in the united states cinemas on december 21 , 2001 .

it went on to gross over $ 313 million worldwide and won four academy awards , for best picture , best director , best adapted screenplay and best supporting actress .

it was also nominated for best actor , best film editing , best makeup and best original score .

it was well received by critics , but has been criticized for its inaccurate portrayal of some aspects of nash 's life , especially his other family and a son born out of wedlock .

however , the filmmakers have stated that the film was not meant to be a literal representation .

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a beautiful mind ( film ) <EOT> " a beautiful mind " is a beautiful film telling an emotional love story combined with intense sequences exploring the effects of schizophrenia .

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russell crowe and jennifer connelly give stunning , emotional performances in a beautiful mind . ron howard has crafted a masterful film that is a revealing look at mental illness and deserves to be seen . brilliantly put together to create suspense , brilliantly acted to make us feel for the characters ( jennifer connelly is astonishing ) , and a moving story of love and determination , a beautiful mind is a beautiful film .

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a beautiful mind is howard ' s best movie , and easily one of the best movies of the year .

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journalist sylvia nasar’s account of nash’s personal and professional lives is moving and perceptive . a beautiful mind is a fine biography of a complex man .

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but hollywood requires more from its films than a few good performances ; it requires drama , action , romance , pathos , excitement . a beautiful mind makes a fair attempt to include all of these ingredients and the results obviously satisfied producers and film - goers alike - it won oscars for best film and best director . but for those expecting to see a film about mathematics it is unlikely to satisfy . early in the film , john nash describes himself as having " two helpings of brain and half a helping of heart " . a beautiful mind seems the exact opposite .

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a very intriguing film where insight into how a person with schizophrenia actually sees the world .

but even in that context , the campaign against " a beautiful mind " has struck many in hollywood as particularly brutal , the times adds .

a beautiful mind is one of the few films ever to suggest that the life of the mind can be as exciting and intriguing as any thriller . based on the story of nobel prize - winning mathematician john nash , the film ' s subtle , but masterful cinematic technique puts audiences inside the mind of a troubled genius when he begins to question reality .

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' ' a beautiful mind ' ' is rated pg - 13 ( parents strongly cautioned ) . it has some upsetting scenes and mild sexual content .

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with strong character development and a stellar performance from russell crowe , a beautiful mind leaves it mark as one of the best movies ever about the effects of schizophrenia and the real mind behind it . just an absolutely shocking movie .

a beautiful mind is a 2001 american film based on the life of john forbes nash , a nobel laureate in economics . the film was directed by ron howard and written by akiva goldsman . it was inspired by a bestselling , pulitzer prize - nominated 1998 book of the same name by sylvia nasar . the film stars russell crowe as nash , along with jennifer connelly , ed harris and paul bettany .

a beautiful film ! the combination of akiva goldsman ' s economical screenplay and russell crowe ' s stunning performance as nobel prize winning mathematician john nash create a powerful , moving experience . the raw power of the film overcomes any minor flaws .

ron howard always manages to craft great films however with a beautiful mind he crafts his best film yet . when i first saw the film in my psychology class i wasn ' t a fan , however my cousin recommended that i watch it again so i did and he was right . i got a much better understanding of the film on a second viewing . the film tells the story of john nash a mathematic genius who gets diagnosed with schizophrenia . russell crowe gives the performance of a lifetime as john nash , to me he does a much better job in this film than the film made a year before this one gladiator ( 2000 ) which wasn ' t that good in my opinion ( and that film started russell crowe ' s career ) . jennifer connelly does an absolute marvelous job as alice nash to me both actors connelly and crowe give there best performance ' s in this film . the film is not only great but is also really smartly crafted and has a great twist in the middle of it . this is ron howard ' s best work since apollo 13 ( 1995 ) ( which is another great film ) . a beautiful mind is a classic film that should not be missed .

there are other , rather more troublesome , biopic distortions in a beautiful mind . the film ignores the ostracisation which nash suffered from other mathematicians ( his 1994 nobel was in economic science ) . it veils his divorce from alicia . as iris testifies , however beautiful the sufferer ' s mind , living with the mentally ill is often more than flesh and blood can bear .

monroe - - john forbes nash jr . , the brilliant princeton university mathematician whose life story was the subject of the film " a beautiful mind , " was killed with his wife alicia on saturday in a crash on the new jersey turnpike .

nobel prize - winning mathematician john f . nash jr . , subject of ron howard ’s oscar - winning film a beautiful mind , was killed saturday in a car crash in new jersey along with his wife , alicia . nash was 86 .

dr . john nash , the nobel prize winning mathematician whose life is portrayed in the oscar - nominated film " a beautiful mind , " denies being anti–semitic . his wife denies he ' s homosexual . and a son denies he ' s a bad father .

on twitter , crowe wrote , “stunned…my heart goes out to john & alicia & family . an amazing partnership . beautiful minds , beautiful hearts . ”

crowe expressed condolences to the family on twitter , calling the couple an " amazing partnership " with " beautiful minds " and " beautiful hearts . "

west windsor - - two years ago , the world mourned john and alicia nash , the renowned mathematician immortalized by the oscar - winning film , a beautiful mind , and his wife when they died in a car accident on the new jersey turnpike .

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nash is best known to the general public as the subject of the 2001 film a beautiful mind , which depicted the troubled mathematician struggling with paranoid schizophrenia even as he pressed ahead with his research . nash was played by actor russell crowe .

john nash , a nobel prize - winning mathematician whose life story inspired the movie a beautiful mind , and his wife alicia nash were killed in a taxi cab crash on saturday in new jersey .

nash ' s intriguing life and work would eventually be immortalized in the film a beautiful mind , which serves as a fictitious biography of nash starring russell crowe . though the film illustrated nash ' s work accurately , it took many liberties in terms of his life and , particularly , his mental illness ; nash seldom suffered from visual hallucinations despite what the film presented , and his discovery of the nash equilibrium was far less dramatic in reality . despite this , nash overall found the film acceptable :

what stressor precipitated john nash ' s first episode of schizophrenia in " a beautiful . . .

a bio on princeton university ' s website , where nash was a professor , notes that a beautiful mind was " loosely " based on his life . nash received his doctorate from the institution in 1950 .

mental health experts are applauding a beautiful mind for creating a better understanding of schizophrenia , although some say the hollywood version of john nash ' s life does sometimes take liberties with medical realities .

i hope a beautiful mind does win . but that ' s mainly because i want drudge to lose . big time . and moulin rouge , now i think of it .

sylvia nasar’s 1998 biography “a beautiful mind” and the 2001 film it inspired documented nash’s academic accomplishments and the schizophrenia that almost cost him his family and his career . the film earned four oscars , including best picture and supporting actress jennifer connelly as alicia nash . the pic scored eight nominations in all , including russell crowe as john nash .

now , that is pure poetry - for what is poetry other than a truth so obviously beautiful that mortals cannot see it . the joyous eyes of maryam mirzakhani ' s little daughter could see what her mother ' s beautiful mind knew with mathematical precision : "

winner of 4 academy awards , including best picture , a beautiful mind is directed by academy award - winner ron howard and produced by long - time partner and collaborator , academy award - winner brian grazer . a beautiful mind stars russell crowe in an astonishing performance as brilliant mathematician , john nash , on the brink of international acclaim when he becomes entangled in a mysterious conspiracy . now only his devoted wife ( academy award - winner jennifer connelly ) can help him in this powerful story of courage , passion and triumph . ( original title - a beautiful mind )

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a great mix between a classic love story and informative take on mental illness , this film delivers on every level .

actor russell crowe , who played nash in the film , sent his condolences via a tweet sunday .

if , as critics have charged , nash ignored a son born of a long - ago relationship , he says he is close to him now and has given john david stier a share of the royalties from " a beautiful mind . "

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nash , a west virginia native , shared a nobel prize for economics in 1994 , the year before he joined the princeton mathematics department as a senior research mathematician . he is known for his work in game theory and his struggle with paranoid schizophrenia , depicted in the 2001 film , " a beautiful mind , " starring russell crowe .

a beautiful mind received a limited release on december 21 , 2001 , receiving positive reviews , with crowe receiving wide acclaim for his performance . it was later released in the united states on january 4 , 2002 .

the film “ a beautiful mind ” characterizes the story of the brilliant mathematician john forbes nash who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia . this film was directed by ron howard and it ' s based on a true life story of the genius mathematician nash which is portrayed by the actor russel crowe . at the beginning of the film nash starts his career at princton university as a mathematics graduate student where he was well known for his intelligence . nash is an arrogant , awkward socially - inept mathematics student , who spent most of his time making an effort to discover a revolutionary equation in mathematics . at half way through the film , we discover that half of the places and situations that occur in the film are only illusions within nash ' s “beautiful” mind . this is when we determine that nash is suffering from a severe illness which is schizophrenia . one of the first imaginary characters that nash develops in his mind is his roommate charles herman , ( paul bettany ) a student of english literature .

he says the same to a student near the end of the film , offering half of his sandwich .

a beautiful mind was released on vhs and dvd in the united states on june 25 , 2002 . [ 38 ] the dvd set includes audio commentaries , deleted scenes and documentaries . the film was also released on blu - ray in north america on january 25 , 2011 . [ 39 ]

in a tweet , crowe today said he was stunned . " my heart goes out to john & alicia & family , " he wrote . " an amazing partnership . beautiful minds , beautiful hearts . "

john nash , the princeton university mathematician whose brilliance and mental health struggles inspired the oscar - winning film “a beautiful mind , ” died in a car crash in new jersey on saturday . he was 86 . nash’s 82 - year old wife , alicia nash , also died after a taxi that they were riding in crashed into a guard rail . a spokesman [ … ]

" stunned . . . my heart goes out to john & alicia & family , " crowe said on twitter on sunday . " an amazing partnership . beautiful minds , beautiful hearts . "

nobel prize winning mathematician john forbes nash and his wife alicia arrive at the 74th annual academy awards in hollywood , march 24 , 2002 . nash is the subject of the film " a beautiful mind , " which has eight oscar nominations , including best motion picture . reuters / fred prouser jh - rtr2wvh

mathematician john forbes nash jr . , an mit faculty member from 1951 - 59 , gained fame in 1994 when he won a nobel prize in economics and again in 2001 when the movie " a beautiful mind " was released .

winner of 4 academy awards including best picture , a beautiful mind is an expertly crafted biopic based on the life of schizophrenic mathematician john nash & covers his struggle with his condition . although the artistic license taken here makes it far more cinematic than required , the film nonetheless succeeds as a touching , entertaining & satisfying experience .

" the ballad of narayama " is a japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice , telling a story of startling cruelty . what a space it opens…

this is just a sampling of his behavior depicting diversity of different orders as he treaded his life path . the movie has numerous examples of this diversity , spread over all the way until the last . it is this large behavior variance that perhaps motivated the director to decide to give the film the title of a beautiful mind .

“the only thing greater than the power of the mind is the courage of the heart . ”

unfortunately , very little of this comes across in a beautiful mind because the director ( ron howard ) seems more interested in making a film about a schizophrenic than a mathematician suffering from schizophrenia . at the start of the film we are shown a hollywood template of a typically obsessive young academic , introverted , socially inept , dismissive of his colleagues ' work . if the notes we see nash scribbling on his windows were chemical formulae or rhyming couplets rather than mathematical equations , the character would have seemed equally plausible .

review aggregator rotten tomatoes polled 205 critics and gave the film a 76 % approval rating , with an average rating of 7 . 2 / 10 . the website ' s critical consensus states , " the well - acted a beautiful mind is both a moving love story and a revealing look at mental illness . " [ 25 ] on metacritic , the film has a weighted average score of 72 out of 100 , based on 33 critics , indicating " generally favorable reviews " . [ 26 ]

psychological thriller : a prominent element of the film from when william parcher first appears until john ' s second admission to a mental institution .

as the couple ' s biographer , sylvia nasar , wrote in the 1998 book " a beautiful mind , " " it was nash ' s genius . . . to choose a woman who would prove so essential to his survival . "

' beautiful mind ' mathematician john nash jr . dies in new jersey car crash : the two - way the nobel prize winner , who struggled with schizophrenia and was portrayed by russell crowe in the 2001 film , died with his wife in a taxi on the new jersey turnpike , officials say . he was 86 .

there ' s a section of this movie which is absolutely terrifying to me , more than any horror movie i ' ve ever seen . a beautiful mind plays out the idea that you can ' t think your way out of mental illness . there ' s a…

reassistir a beautiful mind é uma experiência que diminui a tensão da trama e toda a atmosfera da obra . sabendo - se do final , boa parte da narrativa torna - se enfadonha . contudo , as maneiras apresentadas de se lidar com a doença e os desdobramentos da mesma continuam excelentes .

" a beautiful mind " is a film about the mathematician john nash . it is very cleverly written and directed , as about mid - way through the film you learn something very , very interesting about the film . i ' d say more , but i don ' t want to ruin it - - especially since the film makers did such a great job in presenting nash ' s mental illness - - something he ' s struggled with for many years . i enjoyed " a beautiful mind " . it was a lovely semi - fictional biography of the life of a brilliant mathematician . but , as i just said , it ' s semi - fictional - - meaning a lot of the film just never occurred and the story of the man ' s life was often sanitized . the result is a very uplifting film . . . but one that is also a bit phony . and , as a retired history teacher , i hate this about the film . additionally , i think the 2002 oscars was a rather poor year , as although the film did win the best picture award , the competition wasn ' t particularly strong . as a result of all these factors , i think the film is overrated . does that mean you should not watch it ? certainly not . just understand that hollywood often gets it wrong - - and they did here . and , incidentally , another thing that is just plain wrong was russell crowe ' s accent . i don ' t know where he was supposed to be from , but it was no where near west virginia .

" a beautiful mind " scriptwriters took liberties with the facts in nasar ' s biography . the book describes at length the common room where nash spent a lot of time with colleagues and students , but the movie doesn ' t touch on this .

the tomatometer score — based on the opinions of hundreds of film and television critics — is a trusted measurement of critical recommendation for millions of fans . it represents the percentage of professional critic reviews that are positive for a given film or television show .

the 2001 film " a beautiful mind " won four oscars , including best picture and best director , and generated interest in john nash ' s life story . the movie was based on an unauthorized biography by sylvia nasar , who wrote that nash ' s contemporaries found him " immensely strange " and " slightly cold , a bit superior , somewhat secretive . "

eleanor stier , the abandoned woman , disagrees - as well she might - with the film that renders her invisible . the nash she knew was , she says , " sort of mean " . the " real " nash , drudge asserts , has been a racist , sexually deviant , snobbish love rat . beautiful mind , lousy character .

beautiful mind is howard ' s best movie after apollo 13 , and it immediately follows his charmless  though commercially successful  children ' s movie from a year ago . to adult moviegoers , at least , the grinch has given christmas back .

what are your impressions of nash in the opening third of the film while he is attending graduate . . .

much as he did in apollo 13 , ron howard injects tension beyond reasonable expectation . you may know the outcome of this fact - based film , but howard cranks up excitement and keeps the audience on edge without sacrificing the human aspect . in a beautiful mind he weaves a love story , a history , and a thriller into a complicated web . each aspect is respected yet blends together to enhance the film as a whole . similarly , howard uses an interesting special effect ( nicely done by digital domain ) to illustrate nash ' s mathematical revelations , and with a subtle twist is able to use this effect to illustrate both a sense of wonder , and later in the film , a sense of horror , creating a nice parallel to how nash ' s gift became his curse .

you ' ve gotta hand it to howard . he and a beautiful mind got me ( and i bet will get you ) interested in this subject for the first time since " new math " ruined it for most of us in high school .

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thoughtful , elegant , and moving , spike jonze ' s film about a man in love with his operating system is a work of sincere and forceful humanism .

not long ago , a movie star could drive a film ' s performance , deliver an opening weekend and drag it over the finish line . what happened ?

that chapter of their relationship did not make it into the hollywood version of their lives , the 2001 oscar - winning film " a beautiful mind " starring russell crowe and jennifer connelly . the film , which has been called " a piece of historical revisionism , " also left out his child from a previous relationship and glossed over his reputation for being difficult to work with . but it drew accolades for its depiction of mental illness while bringing attention to nash ' s accomplishments , which earned him the 1994 nobel prize in economics .

on sunday john nash basked in adulation as a beautiful mind , the film based on his life , collected the oscar for best picture . but his reputation has recently taken a battering : he ' s been called an anti - semite , an adulterer and a lousy father . so what is the truth about the mathematical genius who recovered from decades of schizophrenia to win a nobel prize ? sylvia nasar , his biographer , knows better than most .

unreliable narrator : nash . to make it worse , the official film descriptions were written as if from his viewpoint .

howard pulls off an extraordinary trick in a beautiful mind by seducing the audience into nash ' s paranoid world . we may not leave the cinema with a level competence in game theory , but we do get a glimpse into what it feels like to be mad - and not know it . [ 30 ]

finally watched this movie ! to be honest , i was disappointed near the end when everything took on a slower pace and there are moments i thought was dragged on and too cheesy . nevertheless , this film tells an amazing story of the triumph and struggles of a brilliant mind .

during the five - day weekend of the limited release , a beautiful mind opened at the # 12 spot at the box office , [ 31 ] peaking at the # 2 spot following the wide release . [ 32 ] the film went on to gross $ 170 , 742 , 341 in the united states and canada and $ 313 , 542 , 341 worldwide . [ 1 ]

like his real - life counterpart , the movie nash is impatient with detail - oriented hack work , preferring to search out ' ' governing dynamics . ' ' the governing dynamic of ' ' a beautiful mind ' ' is sentimentality of a familiar and not altogether unwelcome kind . the movie can - - indeed , should - - be intellectually rejected , but you can ' t quite banish it from your mind .

in sylvia nasar ' s a beautiful mind , the experience of life and the rules of logic collide head on . in this strange and deeply moving biography , the young mathematical genius john nash , " inventor of a theory of rational behavior " and " visionary of the thinking machine , " loses his mind to schizophrenia — yet decades later reawakens to win a nobel prize for his earlier work and take up his own mathematical investigations again .

a poorly tailored trailer does not begin to describe what is one man ' s journey from the heaven of clear thought to the hell of schizophrenia . russell crowe does an excellent role as john nash , a mathematician who revolutionizes group theory , only to have his mind crash into confused and split views of the world . jennifer connelly is superb as his wife . it is through her that we begin to understand the range of problems and pittfalls nash is facing , most of his own devising . she deserves an oscar , period . the director has arranged beautiful ' red herrings ' to kept viewers guessing and it works suprisingly well . ron howard ' s best work to date . a beautiful movie to decribe a beautiful mind .

russell crowe is hollywood royalty . or at least he used to be . he ' s got an oscar under his belt and a string of critically acclaimed hit films — " l . a . confidential , " " gladiator " and " a beautiful mind " — on his resume . but does he have the star power to open a movie ?

" a beautiful mind " is an exceptional story , but it is only and exceptional film because of its director . ron howard does an amazing job of engaging his audience , introducing a brilliant main character , and making the audience experience the reality of mental illness . this could have been an unbelievable story to which very people could relate ; however , the directorial mastery howard exhibits throughout allows the audience to accompany nash on his journey and awareness of his illness . anyone who has been close to the frailties of the human mind will appreciate how respectfully and honestly this film approaches the subject . howard is able to portray all the complex reactions to mental illness while maintaining the humanity and dignity of the patient . superbly directed , wonderfully acted by crowe and cast , this film succeeds on every level .

on this day in 2001 , a beautiful mind , starring the actor russell crowe as john forbes nash , a nobel prize - winning economist and mathematician who develops schizophrenia , opens in limited release in the u . s . directed by ron howard and co - starring jennifer connelly , ed harris and paul bettany , a beautiful mind opened in wide release on january 4 , 2002 , and went on to receive eight academy award nominations , including crowe’s third consecutive nomination for best actor , and collect four oscars , including best picture , best director and best supporting actress ( connelly ) . a beautiful mind , a critical and box - office success , was based on a best - selling 1998 biography of the same name by sylvia nasar that explored nash’s personal and professional life , including his work at princeton university , mit , the rand ( research and development ) corporation and his struggle with mental illness .

in 2002 , the film was awarded four awards at the 74th academy awards , for best adapted screenplay ( akiva goldsman ) , best picture ( brian grazer and ron howard ) , best director ( ron howard ) and best supporting actress ( jennifer connelly ) . it also received four other nominations for best actor ( russell crowe ) , best film editing ( mike hill and daniel p . hanley ) , best makeup ( greg cannom and colleen callaghan ) and best original score ( james horner ) . [ 33 ] at the 55th british academy film awards the film won best actor in a leading role and best actress in a supporting role to russell crowe and jennifer connelly , respectively . it also nominated the film for best film , best screenplay and the david lean award for direction . [ 34 ]

grinberg , emanuella . " ' beautiful mind ' mathematician john nash dies in crash . " cnn . cable news network , 24 may 2015 . web . 25 june 2017 . < urltoken john - nash - wife - killed / index . html > .

siobhan roberts ' words in the new yorker sums up in simplest terms the sudden sense of loss and quiet mourning millions of iranians around the world and , with them , the world of science at large feels at the tragic ending of a beautiful mind so early in its blooming .

few mathematics geniuses have ever served as the subject of a major motion picture , so john nash now has broken the mold both in his own profession and as the unlikely hero of “a beautiful mind . ” consistently engrossing as an unusual character study and as a trip to the mysterious border - crossing between rarified brilliance and [ … ]

the narrative of the film differs considerably from the events of nash ' s life , as filmmakers made choices for the sense of the story . the film has been criticized for this aspect , but the filmmakers said they never intended a literal representation of his life . [ 15 ]

what film can do - brilliantly - is convey the nightmare of paranoid schizophrenia . howard pulls off an extraordinary trick in a beautiful mind by seducing the audience into nash ' s paranoid world . we may not leave the cinema with a level competence in game theory , but we do get a glimpse into what it feels like to be mad - and not know it . as in shine , and rain man , the image of mental disability projected by movies is dangerously simplified : particularly this film ' s assertion that full - blown schizophrenia like nash ' s can be overcome by mere strength of mind . his late - life remission , in the 1990s seems to be more in the nature of an inexplicable miracle .

roger ebert of chicago sun - times gave the film four out of four stars . [ 27 ] mike clark of usa today gave three - and - a - half out of four stars and also praised crowe ' s performance , calling it a welcome follow - up to howard ' s previous film , the grinch . [ 28 ] desson thomson of washington post found the film to be " one of those formulaically rendered important subject movies " . [ 29 ] the mathematics community praised the portrayal of mathematics in the film , including john nash himself . [ 6 ]

on this day in 1967 , the film “the graduate” opens at two theaters in new york : the coronet on third avenue and the lincoln art theater on broadway . the film , based on a 1963 novel by charles webb , had a simple premise : as its screenwriter explained it , “this kid graduates . . .

i find the concept of expectations and whether or not they are met to be fascinating , especially in regards to film criticism . last night i finally saw the 2002 best picture winner a beautiful mind for the first time , a mere 12 years after its release , and without a doubt it is a very good film , one that was elevated to that level through pretty great performances throughout but especially from the two leads . russell crowe is john forbes nash jr . and jennifer connelly is alicia , a student in his class that stuns nash not just with her beauty but also the bold move she makes to solve a noise / temperature problem on his first day as her teacher . i truly…

hollywood nerd : with russell crowe playing an intellectual , this is a given , especially near the end of the film as he ages and starts to wear glasses .

as the director of the movie , howard knew how arrange the movie to convey a certain message . to make it seem like we were in nashs mind , he used shots that looked like they were shown through nashs point of view . to make parcher , marcee and charles look unreal , they used shots where no one is around and used shots where they looked like they have appeared from out of nowhere . as a result , a beautiful mind got an academy award in several categories .

most of the hardcover books stacked and toppled on the dusty shelves belonged to his parents . they include three copies of sylvia nasar ' s biography of his father , " a beautiful mind . " nash said he enjoyed book because , " i learned a lot about " his father . " he never spoke about those things . "

as portrayed in " a beautiful mind " , john nash is one scary dude . from the scene where he almost lets his infant son drown because he is convinced that his delusional friend charles is watching the infant while nash is elsewhere , to the one in which he very nearly assaults his wife in response to a voice telling him she is out to get him , the film portrays nash as a man who at any moment can cross over the line to where his delusional ideas create real tragedies .

after producer brian grazer first read an excerpt of sylvia nasar ' s book a beautiful mind in vanity fair magazine , he immediately purchased the rights to the film . he eventually brought the project to director ron howard , who had scheduling conflicts and was forced to pass . grazer later said that many a - list directors were calling with their point of view on the project . he eventually focused on a particular director , who coincidentally was available only when howard was also available . grazer chose howard . [ 3 ]

a beautiful mind is a clichéd best picture winner with excellent performance as well as some moving and some very romantic scenes , but the editing is clumsy , the structure is very problematic , the third act is awfully prolonged and the movie is just too much by the numbers . it is definitely solid , but far from great and quite overrated .

like eternal sunshine of the spotless mind —of which her is a clear descendant—jonze’s film uses the tools of lightly scienced fiction to pose questions of genuine emotional and philosophical weight . what makes love real : the lover , the loved one , or the means by which love is conveyed ? need it be all three ?

some doctors are worried that schizophrenic patients who see the film might come to believe they ' re smart enough to beat their illness without medication .

as a psychology student who has spent thousands of hours talking about mentally ill people , i was eager to see " a beautiful mind " . i wanted to see if this would be the very first movie ever to portray people with schizophrenic illness in a sympathetic light , to avoid the usual stereotypes such as " really scary psychotic killer " or " impossibly weird bag person "

the film , she added , portrayed the character as a woman with integrity and grit : " her fierceness and strength came through again and again . more female superheroes ! "

movies like " the snake pit " and " suddenly last summer " and " spellbound " and " freud " have memorably tackled the agonies of the mind but were from another era with relatively neat and tidy endings . " a beautiful mind " poignantly recognizes that not all nightmares have been vanguished yet and despite the movie ' s flaws russell crowe ' s performance is likely to make many more people sensitive to other ' s sensitivities , imaginings and bold mental leaps .

guest reviewer andrew stickland is a freelance writer and enthusiastic film - goer . he has written articles on subjects as diverse as travel and war - gaming , but up till now never on a mathematical topic .

while a beautiful mind is loosely based on the real life story of the genius mathematician , don ' t go into the theatre expecting an accurate biography . the film is a fiction that captures the essence of nash ' s life . screenwriter goldsman wisely pares down nash ' s experience to create a thoughtful and honest emotional narrative , with some thriller elements to create an interesting twist . although goldsman ' s screenplay may over - simplify nash in removing many of the awful aspects of his history it effectively keeps focus on the central theme .

while not completely accurate to the story of john nash , this film does an admirable job of making the audience feel what being schizophrenic is like .

it ' s not a crime for the script to gloss over the thornier aspects of nash ' s story , but the film seems totally unconvincing , squeezing a real life into a formula that ' s simultaneously more palatable and less interesting .

if you don ' t mind the fact that this oscar - winning biography alters the real story considerably , it will certainly be a wonderful experience . full review on filmotrope . com

dave bayer , a professor of mathematics at barnard college , columbia university , [ 5 ] was consulted on the mathematical equations that appear in the film . for the scene where nash has to teach a calculus class and gives them a complicated problem to keep them busy , bayer chose a problem physically unrealistic but mathematically very rich , in keeping with nash as " someone who really doesn’t want to teach the mundane details , who will home in on what’s really interesting " . bayer received a cameo role in the film as a professor who lays his pen down for nash in the pen ceremony near the end of the film . [ 6 ]

few mathematics geniuses have ever served as the subject of a major motion picture , so john nash now has broken the mold both in his own profession and as the unlikely hero of “ a beautiful mind . ” consistently engrossing as an unusual character study and as a trip to the mysterious border - crossing between rarified brilliance and madness , this serious - minded but lively film is distinguished by an exceptional performance by russell crowe as the princeton prodigy who was beset by schizophrenia in the 1950s only to conquer the disease and win the nobel prize in 1994 . although the true tale has been somewhat conventionalized by very familiar “inspirational” storytelling techniques to the point where the picture will make nash as much of a folk hero as “shine” did of david helfgott , the film’s effective blend of intelligence and emotion will reach all manner of audiences , spelling a beautiful b . o . future for the latest entry in ron howard’s eclectic directorial resume .

is a touching film to experience . it ' s one of those rare features that envelopes you so much in the mind of the central character , that you come away feeling that you know , at least somewhat , what it must have been like to be him . - - - - - - - - - - alex kobak

based on the novel of the same name , the story of a beautiful mind begins in 1947 when the young john nash arrives at princeton university . eccentric but brilliant , nash graduates with flying colours , is hired by mit but begins exhibiting troubling symptoms of a mental illness which in the long run affects not only his personal & professional life but also those around him .

when john is asking his friend if he ' s been introduced to harvey he ' s referencing jimmy stewart ' s imaginary friend in the film harvey .

they were mourned online by russell crowe , who played the man in ron howard ' s 2001 film , which won four oscars and earned the actor a nomination for his leading role .

audiences and critics appear equally pleased with the film . it received a b - plus cinemascore from moviegoers ( 80 % families ) and has an 86 % positive rating on rotten tomatoes .

the sludge of the day is that the nobel prize - winning mathematician john nash - portrayed by crowe in a beautiful mind as a cuddly , unworldly , lovable nerd - has a dark side . he has been guilty of " jew bashing " ( drudge ' s blunt phrase ) . then , while serving in 1954 with the cold war think - tank the rand corporation , nash was arrested doing a full - george michael in a santa monica public lavatory . he was dismissed as a security risk .

because costs were a concern ( the film had a lower budget than a typical hollywood production ) , scenes depicting mit and harvard were actually shot at bronx community college and at manhattan college , with the rest on location at princeton university in new jersey .

john nash has added his two cents to the controversy surrounding the film by flatly denying his schizophrenia to film - maker benita raphan . he is entitled to his opinions and maybe he does not relish the publicity his trials have generated . raphan , who is an expert on nash , showed her short film about john nash called " 2 + 2 " five times at the sundance film festival to sold - out audiences . after e - mail contact with nash for the past 14 months , an incredulous raphan says : " he hasn ' t seen our film . he ' s in denial about his schizophrenia . " it would be interesting to know if john nash has made any money out of the book or movie , as the box office and publishers coffers fill up . for more check urltoken .

montoya added that she was " surprised " by how good the film was : " i walked in thinking , ' ok , we ' re going to see explosions , and there ' s not going to be a lot of storytelling . ' " considering her background in gender studies , she was particularly attuned to the film ' s gender politics and diversity .

none of the dark side of nash appears in ron howard ' s film ( nor , if it had , would crowe ' s agent have let him play the part ) . since nash is still living , and sane enough to sue , it is risky to sling this kind of mud . hence the drudge ruse . beautiful .

unlike sylvia nasar ' s splendid same - name biography , the factually sandpapered screen version of a beautiful mind is merely inspired by the traumatic life of mathematics genius and nobel prize winner john nash . that said , this is one inspir ing movie despite extremely tricky subject matter  better than shine and among the most affecting ever made about co - existing with mental demons .

a beautiful movie . it is a really clever drama , which is very touching and almost tear jerking . but what elevates it , is that it also has a genius plot twist . it is dramatic , psychedelic and without spoiling the twist , that part could have come out as show - y , but it actually makes the whole plot better . it shows a more complex character and a man who is in pain , but can ' t fight it . that ' s what makes this a film with a meaning . and damn russel crowe is brilliant in this movie !


showgirls 2 : penny 's from heaven is the 2011 parody sequel to the film showgirls .

it stars and is written , produced and directed by rena riffel , who reprises her role from the first film .

an early script and kickstarter fundraising campaign for the project was titled showgirl , and the script was originally titled stardancer .

the film was released in theatres at midnight film showings , art house theatres , film festivals , and charity non-profit organizations , and also received worldwide distribution on dvd and vod .

the film features numerous cast members from the first film who reprise their original roles .

these include dewey weber , greg travis , glenn plummer , and rena riffel .

a sequel to showgirls 2 : penny 's from heaven is in development .

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showgirls 2 : penny ' s from heaven <EOT> there are no featured reviews for showgirls 2 : penny ' s from heaven at this time .

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showgirls 2 : penny’s from heaven is rena riffel taking showgirls and skinning it alive . the plot is a surreal amalgam of plot elements of showgirls as retold by an extremely drunk or high fanatic combined with clues of the sequel dropped by the original film .

it must be noted right from the off that showgirls 2 : penny’s from heaven is less of a sequel and more or a direct parody of the verhoeven bomb . but not a parody in the modern sense of the word , and more in the classic zucker / abrams or brooks style . rena riffel ( returning from the first movie ) multi - tasks by writing , producing , staring , directing and even editing a movie that is as self - aware as those who embraced the original . it’s not so much an exercise in filmmaking but more a celebration of the maddening obsession people have about a movie that no one else liked . in order to get showgirls 2 : penny’s from heaven , one must first get showgirls .

hi , my name is rena riffel . most people " know me " as " penny / hope " from the movie showgirls .

and all of this would lead to a great movie if it weren’t for two major problems . at an inexplicable 2 hours and 30 minutes , showgirls 2 : penny’s from heaven is a slog to sit through and it outstays its welcome at around the hour mark and just about makes it to 90 minutes . but then it keeps going for another hour . there are laughs to be had but the movie is exhausting and isn’t helped by the other issue – it looks like garbage . showgirls 2 : penny’s from heaven doesn’t look like a low budget movie , it someone how manages to look worse than a no - budget production . troma films wish they looked this bad . it’s also littered with editing errors that one could argue are intentional , but its a hard case to fight for when the film looks this awful . riffel claims the movie cost $ 30 , 000 , which is almost impossible to believe as there are hundreds of self - made youtube videos made for peanuts with better production values . it almost makes it unwatchable and while the showgirls obsessives may be able to look past it , showgirls 2 : penny’s from heaven looks beyond amateur .

never have i come so close to not making it through a movie . i mean that on all levels : falling asleep , turning it off or simply just ending it all . at two and a half hours long , showgirls 2 : penny ' s from heaven is unrelenting in its quest to destroy your sanity and soul with painful boredom .

and in that sense , showgirls 2 : penny’s from heaven works . it’s not brilliant , but it works . it directly parodies scenes from showgirls but you have to know the movie well enough in order to get the joke , which further plays to the audience it was intended for . it’s as dumb as its protagonist and it knows it . going over the plot would pointless because it almost doesn’t matter . but you can expect pool sex , brown rice and veg , beads on stage and several cameos from the original movie’s cast . everything a showgirls obsessive would want is on show and written with a kind of self - awareness that most modern day parody writers wish they had .

this is the kind of movie which can serve as an example of why star ratings in reviews don’t work . at its base value , showgirls 2 : penny’s from heaven might just be one of the worst movies ever released to a wide public . the acting is horrendous , the editing is sloppy and the film looks worse than a low - rent high school theatre production . but it’s a movie that is made for a certain audience and they are going to lap up every minute of it like doggy chow . so , in that sense , showgirls 2 : penny’s from heaven is a kind of a work of genius . if the film had been shorter and shot to look like an actual movie , it would have been one of the better parodies of recent memory .

it’s not uncommon for movie studios to produce cheap straight - to - video “sequels” to well - known movies based solely on name recognition , often with virtually no connection to the originals . at first glance , you might expect showgirls 2 : penny’s from heaven to be one of those movies , trading on the notoriety of paul verhoeven’s infamous 1995 flop , which has developed into a cult classic . but showgirls 2 isn’t a cheap studio cash - in ; it’s a bona fide labor of love for writer / director / producer / editor / star rena riffel , who played the small role of stripper penny slot in the original movie , and here brings penny center stage as the main character in her own story .

it’s the movie virtually no one was asking for , a sequel to paul verhoeven’s much maligned showgirls – a film that was nominated for so many razzies that verhoeven himself showed up to accept the awards . but after the film bombed at the box office , it found new life on the home video market and midnight screenings . just like troll 2 , many film fans embraced the camp factor of showgirls and have now hailed it as a modern masterpiece with even award winning filmmakers like quentin tarantino putting their stamp of approval on it . this rise in popularity has led us to this point – showgirls 2 : penny’s from heaven .

penny , a minor character from the first showgirls , is still working as a stripper but has big dreams to be a star on a low - budget tv dancing show .

in short , if you are among the many who have embraced showgirls , enjoy quoting it with your friends and play the drinking game , you will get a real kick out of showgirls 2 : penny’s from heaven . it looks like garbage , but grab some friends together and prepare to relive some of your favourite campy moments in a brilliant self - aware capacity . but if you’re a regular film watcher who dismissed showgirls as nothing more than expensive and exploitative trash , this is one to avoid .

showgirls 2 is sort of a funhouse - mirror version of the original , with numerous lines repurposed and uttered by different characters , famous scenes re - created in new contexts , cameos from other showgirls bit players , and a surreal , dreamlike quality that’s either an intentional artistic choice or an illustration of riffel’s sheer ineptitude as a filmmaker . most likely it’s a little bit of both , as showgirls 2 is clearly a grand artistic statement with bargain - basement production values and a remarkable lack of talent onscreen . while the original showgirls was bad in a big , overblown hollywood way , a boondoggle of a would - be blockbuster , showgirls 2 is bad in a much more personal , idiosyncratic way , more similar to movies like the room or birdemic than it is to verhoeven’s bombastic failure .

godhardt : " what ' s your name ? " penny : " um , i can ' t remember . olga . helga . "

funny , stupid and aware that it ' s both , showgirls 2 is the cinematic equivalent of playing dumb . at its most basic , this is a movie about how much fun it is to obsess and quote and remember showgirls , or any enormously ridiculous movie , for that matter . it ' s commentary under the guise of babble .

rena riffel’s penny is the black heart of the movie , and is the literalized version of all the criticisms aimed at elizabeth berkeley’s nomi malone . penny is still married to james , the black security / valet / dancer / choreographer from the original movie who gets penny pregnant . james is now a t - shirt maker with terrible sayings on them ( “life sucks . shit happens . where do you get these , off t - shirts ? ” ) , but doesn’t make enough money from his job to give penny the life she wants . penny leaves james , and starts hitchhiking to hollywood ( nomi’s destination in the final frames ) , where she catches a ride in a porsche from jeffrey , played by dewey weber who gave nomi her ride to vegas . jeffrey steals her luggage , leaving her destitute in the middle of the woods , as one does .

as punishing and bizarre as showgirls 2 is , it’s also not entirely fair to dismiss it as a waste of time . riffel has at least some level of self - awareness , and some of the movie’s self - consciously nonsensical lines are hilarious . she’s cited john waters , david lynch ( in whose mulholland drive she had another bit part , also referenced here ) , andy warhol , and of course verhoeven himself as influences , and there’s a certain trash - auteur quality to her work . not that it makes showgirls 2 any easier to watch , but it does at times turn it from a painful disaster into a fascinating one .

aw jeez , i was so much happier 2 minutes ago , before i knew this existed .

katya to penny during a dance instruction : " don ' t be afraid of using your pussy . come on , it ' s right there . "

the film features numerous cast members from the first film who reprise their original roles . these include

the funny thing about showgirls 2 , is that it was produced , written , directed and stars rene riffel , who played penny in the original showgirls . riffel is clearly a huge fan of her previous work , because she rips it off wholesale . lines , themes and characters - types are all fair game for the poaching goes on here .

showgirls had raised in infamy , yet rena riffel’s career would not recover . this was probably not aided by david schmader making a special note of rena riffel’s participation in the commentary track , wondering where rena riffel had gone . eventually , rena riffel would finally become secure with her place in hollywood infamy . she even showed up at peaches christ’s 15th annual showgirls screening .

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if that wasn’t enough , rena riffel plays penny like a severely dumb blonde who periodically has emotional flashes of anger and petulance . she fills the movie with quotables , including recalling some of the best lines from the original . in a lesbionic hot dog scene that mirrors the spago scene , penny muses , “in vegas , everybody’s a vegetarian . they only eat brown rice and vegetables . ” penny constantly repeats that she needs to take ballet classes at alvin ailey or julliard . at one point , somebody comments , “i don’t know what’s worse : your dancing or your camel toe . ”

for riffel , it ' s been a twisted emotional journey , perhaps not unlike that of nomi malone herself . the ridicule showgirls faced upon theatrical release " was kind of devastating , " she told me . she ' s in regular contact with its director , paul verhoeven , whom she initially asked to direct showgirls 2 . he declined but , along with the first movie ' s executive producers , gave her his blessing to pursue this passion project . " he said it was the most painful , hurtful , negative experience and he would never step foot back in the showgirls world again . "

" showgirl " is a new film by actress / filmmaker rena riffel ( showgirls , striptease , mulholland dr . ) a story of being a showgirl after " showgirls " .

let the show begin . . . again ! it ' s " showgirls " meets " sunset boulevard " meets " whatever happened to baby jane ? " meets " mommy dearest " in a g - string ! showgirls ' actress rena riffel is back with " showgirls 2 : penny ' s from heaven " , an erotic suspense thriller / dark satire . las vegas stripper , penny slot ( rena riffel ) , sets out on an adventure to become the star dancer on a dance television show . with stars in her eyes , she tries to find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow but instead finds danger in a town more wicked than sin city . romance then leads her down a path towards her dream of stardom , fame , and fortune . but danger lurks at every twist and turn while penny slot becomes lured by a dangerous love triangle full of temptation and seduction . penny ' s longtime fiance / boyfriend , james " jimmy " smith ( glenn plummer ) warns her that she needs formal technique training if she wants to be taken seriously as a real dancer , so penny slot heeds his advice and sets out to take ballet classes and practices her pique turns . but , she must pay the price . and there is a price to pay for success , sacrifices to be made at every imaginable level , and it all comes down to . . . how bad do you want it ? ! ? ( c ) official site

clocking in at 2 : 20 ( the same running time as the original ) , showgirls 2 almost tries your patience . but , the ludicrous and surreal plotting , the references to rena riffel’s career ( she also directly references / pisses on david lynch and mulholland drive ) , the gratuitous dialogue , the terrible sets , and the intentional awfulness of the whole venture creates an ethereal bitterly hilarious air of audaciousness that makes showgirls 2 eminently watchable . unfortunately , in order to get the humor , you must either be well versed in showgirls and its lore , or have watched it as part of a double feature . riffel walks the fine line of shitty low budget filmmaking and winking satire , but only if you know what she’s referencing does one turn into the other .

showgirls 2 was inspired by the adoration the first movie has earned , which riffel has seen on a firsthand basis while attending screenings . as of now , showgirls is the last great hollywood camp classic , where opulence informs its ridiculousness as much as clunkiness . for the past few months , she ' s been screening her own film in los angeles . she says the showings have been well attended and met with appreciation . ( it ' s also available on amazon

riffel reprises the role she played in paul verhoeven ' s masterpiece of trash , the hopelessly dim penny . having been anointed the protagonist for this go round , penny is en route from vegas to hollywood in hopes of appearing on a dance show called star dancer that seems to consist of a single , piss poor solid gold dance and is maybe not even a show at all because all of its action takes place in a black - box theater .

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riffel told me that her initial cut was four hours long , full of " very long , pregnant pauses of emotions " from her actors that she then says she went through and cut out ( on second reference , she lamented the loss of those " beautiful pauses " ) . but there are plenty of at least inseminated pauses that remain in , and some of the sheer amazement at showgirls 2 comes from scenes that last so long , it feels like time has stopped . the pacing may test patience , but it ' s also a trip : watching penny and katya watch bubbles float in the air as they stand topless in a pool is surreal imagery whose duration only enhances its weirdness .

" it ' s kind of difficult to dance with a hard - on . "

penny , motioning to diamond pendant around her neck : " this is my sister ' s remains . her ashes , the carbon , turns into a diamond . it was an option at the morgue . it was : burial , cremation or ashes into a diamond . it ' s very expensive . "

showgirls 2 is aimed at showgirls obsessives , and it sometimes plays like a spoof ( in a very zucker , abrahams and zucker turn , instead of being told to put ice on her nipples at an audition , penny is told to put vaseline on her teeth : " you have such a beautiful smile . you need to keep it lubed up . we wouldn ' t want cotton mouth to get the best of you on a special day like today . " ) . but if it were only parody , its dream haze wouldn ' t be worth sitting through . instead , showgirls 2 is intent on adding to the conversation with an arsenal of its own cheesy lines . it is shockingly quotable . feast your eyes :

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this movie from looking at the trailer , sorta reminds me of wargames 2 . yes they made a wargames 2 but before you run out and look for it . i ' ll warn you its got nothing to do with the original wargames movie . you know your in for a special treat when the lead actress amanda walsh a much music video dj / host is the lead star . our canadian version of mtv / vh1 / . they tried to market this movie in the same way using the name showgirls . do we even see las wages in this movie ?

describing the entire plot of showgirls 2 would take far more room than is available on the internet . it drifts in and out of baffling subplots and heads in new directions regularly ( within the movie’s last 15 minutes or so , penny is arrested for a crime she didn’t commit , spends six months in jail and is exonerated thanks to the work of her former maid , who solves the case as part of her college thesis ) . although the movie has plenty of nudity , it’s all deeply unsexy , and riffel shoots some of the most awkward sex scenes in movie history . as an actress , she makes elizabeth berkley look like meryl streep , and she’s clearly the most accomplished performer in the movie .

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penny stumbles onto a drug deal or murder and into a lot of cash , which she brazenly spends on a variety of overly expensive items , including a french maid who cleans up after her . she hooks up with godhardt , who takes her to a party where she is pimped out for the weekend to a rich guy . after protesting and saying she’s not a prostitute , she’s a dancer , godhardt kinda takes her under his wing , which his client / fiancee katya is none too happy about . katya is already a star dancer , and is everything that penny wants to be . meanwhile , penny still wants to make it to hollywood to become famous .

unfolding over a patience - trying 145 minutes ( 14 minutes longer than the original ) , showgirls 2 follows penny as she hitchhikes her way out of las vegas to l . a . , to pursue her dream of appearing as the star of a dance show called , appropriately enough , star dancer , which looks like it was shot in a dingy basement tricked out with a stripper pole . the whole movie looks like it was shot in the home of someone’s eccentric relative , despite allegedly taking place in the entertainment capital of the world . penny leaves vegas at the urging of a hollywood movie producer ( which is exactly how he’s described on his business card ) , but somehow she ends up in a “gated community” called seven sisters , which is more like some sort of weird cult compound .

if pure camp requires unawareness , then showgirls 2 ' s script alone ensured it wouldn ' t hit the gold standard – it ' s more reminiscent of john waters or troma in its self - consciousness . but that awareness is actually exponential because riffel has also embraced the human - error aesthetic that plays a major role the appeal of neo - camp like the room and birdemic : shock and terror . in the case of those films , sloppiness seems accidental ; in showgirls 2 , it ' s included for effect ( " a lot of times i didn ' t have other takes , " riffel adds ) . the mishmash of a consistently sharp script and incompetence , the by - any - means - necessary approach to entertainment , reminds me the most of beyond the valley of the dolls , which was in turn a hilarious satire ( penned by roger ebert ) and a terrific mess ( check the way dolly read ' s british accent dips in and out for tea ) .

the budget for showgirls 2 is miniscule . riffel had a kickstarter for the movie , budgeted at $ 5 , 000 ( it made $ 5 , 200 ) . riffel knew she wasn’t going to have the $ 45 , 000 , 000 that the original showgirls was budgeted at . instead of making a movie which tried to emulated the film , she just ripped it to shreds . the fancy scenes at the cheetah are replaced by a tiki bar . the spago scene is hot dogs over stove in a kitchen in a house . several of the outdoor scenes look like they were done on a forest turnout on route 101 in northern california . all of the cheapness really help sell the satire . where showgirls was rich and lush trying to mask its trash qualities , showgirls 2 is cheap and garish pointing out the awfulness of the original .

this looks like some weird shit . i might have to check it out ( as i do love me some showgirls ) .

showgirls 2 is where old camp meets new , where the opulent hollywood bomb gets an amateur ' s translation . i talked to riffel by phone and she told me that the film ' s budget was around $ 30 , 000 ( in a penny - like admission , she explained , " i ' m not even sure anymore , ‘cause we just kinda lost track . " ) . it was shot in different places ( mostly in los angeles ) in 30 days over a four - month period in the middle of 2010 . the film is riddled with technical glitches in its continuity , sound editing and its actors ' readings . weird intonations and flubbed lines occur regularly .

jimmy : you ' re not dumb , you just play dumb . penny : like a possum ? jimmy : no . a possum plays dead , not dumb .

" you ' re not old . i ' m old . i ' m like thirty - s…something . "

showgirls was a flop of epic proportions . it failed at the box office , became joke fodder for late night talk shows , was even a punchline in scream 2 , and killed the careers of all the bit players , as well as star elizabeth berkeley . it was such a big flop , it also killed the box office of the next stripper movie to follow in its wake , 1996’s striptease , in which rena riffel also had a bit part .

simultaneously , david schmader had been touring with the dvd of showgirls , giving annotated screenings with the fast forward and rewind button handy . he started here in seattle , but eventually took the screenings on tour and became infamous enough to secure his role on the commentary track of the vip edition ( and subsequent blu - rays ) of showgirls . his screenings highlight the quotability of showgirls , as well as the ridiculousness and the cinematic trashiness .

okay so i watched this shit show this weekend , mainly because it ' s on prime video , and boy is it godawful . my friends and i found that the best way to watch this , that actually kinda worked , was to watch 4 - 5 minutes of the movie depending on bad it was and then skip about 10 minutes and repeat . doing this actually made it quite an enjoyable experience , but that ' s like comparing getting shot in the foot to getting shot in the head . another issue i had with this movie was that i couldn ' t remember the main character from the first film since there were literally dozens of showgirls on the screen at any one time , and she wasn ' t one of the main 5 - 6 showgirls to the best of my memory . i don ' t even think you can call this a parody , but rather a shitty copy of an already shitty movie from the opening hitchhiking scene with the guy in his " uncle ' s million dollar porsche " to the fact that it includes glen plummer reprising his role from the first movie for a needless cameo , or that it includes basically no showgirling but rather appearances by a guy who looks like the devil and a snuff film ring , this would be an amazing live show episode .

special thanks credit in the film ! ! that ' s right , your name will appear in the credits in a beautiful montage . it ' s pretty amazing to see your name in a movie , and you will be part of showgirl history ! ! !

that only touches on the main " plot " elements of showgirls 2 , but be advised that there ' s an unending supply of pointless scenes and subplots , from random outdoor bathroom breaks to spats between gay lovers to the reoccurring maidall for no reason . the same goes for the headscratching script , though at least the dialogue is entertainingly bad . you can see most of them in the best lines section below , but there are plenty of winners : - " there ' s an art to a good wiener . " - " women are like bananas : they ' re sweetest when they ' re ripe , right before they shrivel . but you , you ' re a banana split , with a cherry on top and nuts . " - " i don ' t know what ' s worse your dancing or your cameltoe . " - " i ' m like a burger drive - thru and instead of a burger it ' s a whore with fries and a soda . " - and james ' amazing shakespearean soliloquy where he waxes poetic about dancing , aids and swine flu , arthritis and following your dreams .

an amazing talented cast has come together to make a musical movie , showgirl . cast members i have worked with before on showgirls and mulholland drive will appear in the film , and peter stickles from " short bus " / " the lair " , and many more that i will announce ! ! i have written the script and am directing the movie . ( i played " penny / hope " , the naive blonde stripper who ends up pregnant by glenn plummer ' s character , " james " , in the 1995 cult classic showgirls . i then starred with demi moore in striptease , again playing the ditzy blonde stripper role , and david lynch cast me in his masterpiece , mulholland drive . . . playing , well , kind of the same character , lol ) so , that is who i am , maybe you remember seeing me in my past films .

even your faithful reader was holding screenings back in the midwest of showgirls complete with drinking games . i started holding these screenings in 2001 , after i had witnessed the glory of showgirls on widescreen vhs ( omg ) . these screenings had a regular cast of my favorite outcasts in the audience , and they were joyous fun .

so it ' s pretty much the first film , except the title character is a terrible dancer who has no skills despite having aspirations to be famous . ( over an hour in , she finally gets her first dance lesson . ) penny is now in a relationship with james , who since the first movie has gone from dancing to selling t - shirts that say " life sucks . " ( elizabeth berkley ' s nomi is never mentioned . ) she finally gets fed up that he won ' t teach her to dance due to her lack of skills , so she packs up and sets out for hollywood where she thinks she can be a dancer on tv . along the way , penny stumbles upon random characters and situationsgets her stuff stolen while hitchhiking , witnesses some celebrity impersonators get murdered , and meets a guy who immediately recognizes her because she gave him a lapdance in 1995 .

while rena riffel struggled to find fame in hollywood , showgirls rose in infamy . all the way back to 1997 , peaches christ , a san francisco drag queen , started showing showgirls as an annual part of her midnight mass series . eventually , the midnight mass screenings would include staged recreations of the film highlights , and also a lap dance free for all from a bunch of volunteers in a variety of costumes ( you have to buy a large popcorn ) . they now occur at the castro theater , one of the classic movie houses .

on the surface , this film seemed like it had potential to reach the room - levels of badness , with its amateur acting , gibberish script , random characters and a complete lack of a plot or story structure . it even has a similar writer - director - star that has no clue how to act like a real emoting human being , let alone make a movie . but somehow along the way , showgirls 2 just loses that intangible " happy trainwreck " vibe of tommy wiseau ' s movie and instead becomes a full - on pileup of suck . maybe if it was cut down to an hour and 20 minutes , it might be trashy , campy fun . but as it is , it ' s intolerably boringjust killing time when it ' s already so long that time is killing you .

showgirl is my personal autobiographical " follow up " to my past films and my " type - cast character " . . . . i go beyond showgirls . if i was on saturday night live , i would like to call it a " sleazquel " or a " satire " . it ' s a story of overcoming obstacles and accomplishing your dream . it ' s an inspirational story , but also reveals the dark seedy side of trying to become a famous dancer , doing what you have to do to become a star . the film is a drama , but the script has some classic lines and oscar worthy monologues by the cast members . . . think , sunset boulevard meets showgirls meets rocky horror picture show . . . but , it ' s not a comedy , it ' s a drama , a tragedy , like a shakespeare plot but set in the dance world .

on some level i have to believe that multi - hyphenate rena riffel is aware of what she ' s created . it really feels like she ' s trying to make a david lynch movie ( an odd direction to go , though riffel did work with him on mulholland drive . ) , but has no idea what she ' s doing . at first i thought i was in for some brilliant post - modern counterattack to the culture of criticism lodged at the first showgirls , but it soon became apparent that the sequel can ' t decide if it wants to be a goofy parody of its predecessor or campy trash like its predecessor . instead riffel just ends up making an even worse version of the 1995 film . it follows the same basic structure , hits the same plot points and even recreates a lot of the more famous scenes . you get the same hitchhiker to bookend the movie , the same understudy betrayal plot and the same ridiculous pool sex scene . riffel even brings a lot of the same actors from the first movie to reprise their roles , though aside from glenn plummer ' s dancing mentor james , they ' re all minor characters you probably won ' t remember .

eventually penny makes it to l . a . , where she meets a young violinist named godhardt who wants to open his own cabaret and make her a star . he takes her to a strange club full of swastikas and singing demons but she doesn ' t mind . she does sort of mind when she discovers godhardt is actually engaged and that he only wanted to pimp out penny as a prostitute . but she gets over it and falls in love with her first john and celebrates by having a pillow fight with her maid . ( oh yeah , she ' s broke but lives in a mansion and has a full - time maid . ) at first godhardt ' s wife is penny ' s evil dance rival , but as soon as it ' s necessary to the plot , the pair become bffs . they dance together , talk about their dreamsand then share a hot dog lady and the tramp - style . at this point , i took a break to evaluate my life and cry out , " this movie has to be doing this on purpose , right ? " then penny and the middle aged woman engage in crazy pool sex just like elizabeth berkley and kyle maclachlan and i sort of gave up . the rest of the movie just descends in to further and further stupidity that may or may not involve a snuff film and a secret cult , a four - way sex scene with movie studio execs , and a murder trial .

luke owen is one of flickering myth’s co - editors and the host of the flickering myth podcast . you can follow him on twitter @ lukewritesstuff .

" paul verhoeven , joe eszterhas and elizabeth [ berkley ] , they were right , " she says , relating her epiphany . " what they did with showgirls was right . "

las vegas stripper , penny slot ( rena riffel ) , sets out on an adventure to become the star dancer on a dance television show . with stars in her eyes , she tries to find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow but instead finds danger in a town more wicked than sin city . romance then leads her down a path towards her dream of stardom , fame , and fortune . but danger lurks at every twist and turn while penny slot becomes lured by a dangerous love triangle full of temptation and seduction . penny ' s longtime fiancé / boyfriend , james " jimmy " smith ( ' glenn plummer ' ) warns her that she needs formal technique training if she wants to be taken seriously as a real dancer , so penny heeds his advice and sets out to take ballet classes and practices her pique turns . but , she must pay the price . and there is a price to pay for success , sacrifices to be made at every imaginable level , and it all comes down to . . . how bad do you want it ?

i came here to recommend this movie to the hdtgm crew , but my assumption is that they ' ve passed it over because : a ) it ' s a low - budget indie film and therefore an unfair target for criticism . the movie is so excruciatingly long and so mind - breakingly bad that they have simply declared it unwatchable . c ) they are daunted by how much work it would take to fully address all the problems with this epic - length shitshow . it would require pages and pages of notes , and they ' d probably have to make two full episodes about it . this fucking movie is lotr length plus birdemic quality , so you really have to be a masochistic weirdo to voluntarily expose yourself to it . but hey , they did birdemic , so maybe they ' ll consider doing showgirls 2 . final note : showgirls 2 is the worst movie i ' ve ever seen . it ' s like a fever dream . watching it is a hallucinatory , out - of - body experience that can only be approached by birdemic or the neighbors on peyote . it will leave you reeling , questioning the nature of reality , filmmaking , and the very purpose of life .

i can ' t stress how bad this film was , when i say it was bad , believe me it was bad . i ' ve seen bad b - films that were better than this . cinemax and showtime have better skin flicks on cable that look like a - list films compared to this . the only saving grace is the film ' s star , writer and director . . . rena riffel . i call her the saving grace of the film for one reason and one reason only and that ' s because she ' s friggin hot . . . well let me change that and say her body is hot , because riffel definitely has a butterface . there ' s plenty of riffel ' s killer body throughout this film , but as far as her acting , writing and directing skills , she seriously lacks in all three departments . i can ' t believe they actually considered this as a sequel to the 1995 t & a cult classic ' showgirls ' ? ! glenn plummer ( who reprises his original role ) is also in this film , but he obviously has loss much of his acting skills . . . or . . . he ' s probably on very friendly terms with riffel , if you know what i mean ? ! , because there ' s no other reason he would choose to do this film , unless he ' s doing riffel also . i ' m going to apologize in advance because i ' m a fan of both actors , but come on ? ! anyway , watch this film if you ' re only out to see some riffel bootay , other than that i have to advice people to stay away from this film . . . . far away .

that ' s what i was thinking when i started watching , but as the wheels slowly started to come off , i was hooked . a laugh riot .

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riffel had started , as many actresses do , with uncredited bit parts . when she was finally offered a part in a multi - million dollar movie helmed by one of the hottest directors in hollywood , i imagine she thought it was her big break . that director was paul verhoeven , who was fresh off the triple streak of robocop , total recall , and 1992’s basic instinct . better yet , the film was scripted by joe eszterhas , who co - wrote basic instinct as well as flashdance and jagged edge . the best part was probably that her character wasn’t just named , but she even had a small scene centered around her name . the movie ? showgirls . the character : penny ( aka hope ) .

synopsis : las vegas stripper , penny slot , sets out on an adventure to become the star dancer on a dance television show . with stars in her eyes , she tries to find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow but instead finds danger in a town more wicked than sin city .

this movie is the ultimate how did this get made ! no really , how can this movie call itself a sequel and use the same characters ? how can this movie use porn actors , actually look like a porno film , but not be porn ? how can this movie steal scenes and plot lines from the original ? how ! how ! how ! believe it or not , this " homemade " movie is hilarious . if you don ' t watch it for the hot women ( and not - so hot trannys ) , watch it for the dancing ! oh the dancing ! the only thing worse than a low - budget film , is low - budget dancing . say what you want about the original 1995 classic , but the dancing looked like dancing ; it looked like a high budget vegas show . the tv dance show in showgirls 2 looks like it was filmed on a high school stage . and the dancing ? a hot mess— it was posing while walking .

short synopsis : " penny slot / helga " is on the road to fame . she wants to be a dancer , not only a dancer but the star dancer . against all odds , she must become a star . she will pay any price as long as it gets her fame and the role of the star dancer in the show .

" a lot of the casting directors would call me in for a big movie after showgirls was out just to sit there and get mad at me and say , ‘how could you do that , rena ? you should be ashamed of yourself . ' they didn ' t even care if i read my scene for them . hollywood , it made them mad , " riffel says of the humiliation . she told me that it wasn ' t until showgirls hit video and started building its cult that then filled midnight screenings that she understood its worth and hilarity .

it sounds like something crazy that someone that just won the lottery that has no interest in hanging on to the money would do , like the guy that started up a women ' s wrestling fed a few years back . . .

i guess i would be too . you spend 5 years climbing the hollywood ladder to land a pair of prominent bit parts in a pair of high profile movies . then , those movies flop and so does your career . it’s enough to kill somebody .

this movie can only be defined as a parody of the first— so , it begs the question of how did this get made ! how did riffel marshal the resources to pull off this labor of love ? please , please get riffel to be a guest on the show to talk about the original showgirls and to explain her opus .

after striptease , rena riffel struggled to land a part that wasn’t a stripper or a prostitute , with her only other major showing being in david lynch’s mulholland drive as laney the prostitute . otherwise , she was in movies with titles like the pornographer , dark confessions , and national lampoon’s gold digger . finally , she had enough and made her own production company . she directed her own movie , starring herself , trasharella , a low budget b - movie musical horror comedy . this gave her the basis to finally kick the teeth in on the movie that killed her career .

it sounds like something crazy that someone that just won the lottery that has no interest in hanging on to the money would do , like the guy that started up a women ' s wrestling fed a few years back . . . http : / / en . wikipedia . . . . ki / wrestlicious

a star dancer on hiring an understudy : " we need someone with class and style who has formal technique training but with some dark secret so we can blackmail her with . so when i ' m ready for my comeback , she can be fired out of her contract at a moment ' s notice . "

well for the most part , at least they got the director alex cox . mind you he ' s not making all that many great movies anymore . just a lot of digital camera level junk . i love sid and nancy , repo man but after those two films he sorta dropped out of the norm .

kickstarter is such a great platform . i am now able to open up the production to all the amazing fans out there , and to you ! be involved in this amazing movie we are about to make ! ! your generous pledge will be used for make - up products , swarovski crystals , costumes , set decorating , props , rentals , movie hard drives , etc . showgirl is a green project as well , recycling and re - using what already exists . i am purchasing all costumes and props from the second hand stores , goodwill and out of the closet , both organizations help people in need , feeding people living with aids or other illnesses .

the film will be released in 2012 , or possibly sooner . if all goes according to plan , it will play in the cult film cinemas and movie theaters across the country as a midnight movie or a matinee . i hope all the fans will come out to the screenings and dress in your favorite 90 ' s clothes with shoulder pads , metallic pleather jackets , and spandex dance pants , and enjoy the fantastic ride of showgirl .

2018 dlm challenge : 219 movies ( 189 new ) https : / / letterboxd . c . . . vies - challenge / 2016 dlm challenge : 618 movies ( 478 new ) " i ' m gonna fuck the ' mind of mencia ' out of you ! " - paul scheer " fuck you , i watched this fucking movie bro ! " june diane raphael " everyone is a fucking idiot in this movie ! " - zouks " how ' s yo dick ? " - nicole byer

" i ' ve managed to make an honest living in a g - string . "

" women are like bananas . they ' re sweetest when they ' re ripe . right before they shrivel . but you , you are a banana split . with a cherry on top . and nuts . "

" you have to pick up my purple for me because…i want you to pick it up . "

" everybody got aids and shit . h1n1 , all kindsa shit . swine flu ! "

i plan to film this summer . i have already filmed the opening of the movie and edited the first 10 minutes , shot on real 35mm film and the arriflex camera . . just like the big studio movies do . and i plan to film the rest of the movie with the same great production value . ( check out the " teaser " here in the video window . )

i am offering involvement in the film , so practice your pique turns or just polish up your lap dancing talents . . .

cast : rena riffel , peter stickles ( short bus , the lair / here ! tv ) , paula labaredas , michael anderson , charlene harding , christina carte , warren malone , shelley michelle , smokey miles , jade paris , greg travis , and many more to be announced on the website .

all of the above , plus an autographed screener dvd copy of my first feature length film i made , the cult favorite , trasharella . an official selection at the paranoia film festival 2010 .

an autographed 8x10 glossy photo of rena riffel . autographed to you with a big thank you xo for your showgirl support . and the trasharella autographed screener dvd movie ! ! !

showgirl crew ! ! assistants to art dept . , props dept . , wardrobe dept . , set design . get a credit in the movie ! ! ! help with props , art , rhinestone costumes , etc . . . . ( preferably you are in the southern california area to participate )

a walk on role in the movie ! ! your name in the credits ! ! ! meet the stars of the new showgirl movie while on the set ! ! ! ( no lines ) ( filming takes place mostly in hollywood , california , so you will have to be here at the location in order to participate . and you must get yourself to the set . )