I generally like Dramas that concentrate on real life events or

movies about triumphing over difficult circumstances but I believe

this movie reduced everything to a TV movie of the week mentality. The main character was unlikable, I didn't understand how his

student was even mildly attracted to such a big doofus with no

social skills and it was paint by number plotting from start to finish.

Guy meets girl, acts like an ignoramus (but he's a genius) and

they conveniently get married, he starts having problems and BAB,

she's pregnant. He starts acting strange and throwing stuff and

she gets scared. Give me a break. I've seen this countless times over and over

again. This trivializes Mental Illness to a point where I was rolling my eyes

and waiting for the credits. Its too bad that after years of working in the Business that Ron

Howard doesn't know the difference between a contrived and

cliched piece of work. the music was cranked to pull on our emotions all at the right

spots. The performances were schmultzy and overly melodramatic.

And this won a Golden Globe? Further proof that Hollywood is

corrupt. Pop Cinema at it's best.