I need to write a short 400 word paper on a movie/tv show (min 1 hour in length) about a mathematician or physicist, or mathematics in general.

Any ideas ? Preferably something that isn't going to bore me for 2 hours.

A Beautiful Mind - Russell Crowe - 2001
Good Will Hunting - Matt Damon - 1997

This post was edited by card_sultan on Nov 4 2014 04:38pm

Pi (1998)

Heard great things about good will hunting , so will check this out. Thanks.

fermat room
stand and deliver

its more puzzle on fermat than math

stand delivr is about a teacher
not phyist n mathmagician

I vouch Good Will Hunting, saw it for the first time not too long ago and loved it.

Would counting cards fall into this category?

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Vouch

Owning Mahowny - Philip Seymour Hoffman - 2003

A bank manager with:
(a) a gambling problem and
(b) access to multimillion dollar accounts gets into a messy situation.
Based on the true story of the largest one-man bank fraud in Canadian history.

sort of fits - was a good movie and a great actor -and it really happened too

first one that came to my mind as well.