Paltrow was excellent. She was so different in this. I did think that the story reminded me of what John Nash must have gone through, but he didn't have a daughter. He had an illegimate son by a previous girlfriend who average and a brilliant wife who was equally talented in the math field and who did not sublimate her life to his (even tho A Beautiful Mind did make it seem that way. I also read the book about John Nash. His son was as high IQ as his dad but exhibited schizophrenia at a much younger age and pretty much wasted his life (so far as far as I know at this time.) SO, it wasn't really about John Nash but a character that had the same sort of problems in life.It is interesting that one comment on IMDb was that there wasn't enough mathematics in the movie and my husband thought the movie was geared more to mathematical people. So...what can you do? I didn't expect this movie to be what it was. It was good just surprising. I am glad I saw it. There needs to be more movies that are not formula or romantic or typical plots. Sometimes movies based on stage plays are sort of one dimensional, no action just talking talking, and this movie was like that. It was acceptable as a converted stage play. I am not sure if the character played by Jake was a lover, friend, nurturer or what at the end, which is a lot like real life is. A friend would stick by someone in a major life problem like insanity and nurture them as best they could, but not necessarily stay in love with them.
