MOVIE · 2014
A Brilliant Young Mind
DramaRomance111 min
Asa Butterfield is Nathan, a teenage math prodigy who understands numbers more easily than people. After winning a place on Britain’s team for the International Mathematics Olympiad, he is pushed beyond the routines that make sense to him and into unfamiliar friendships, fierce competition, and first love. Sally Hawkins is his mother, still trying to reach him after the death of his father, as Nathan’s gift opens doors that challenge the sheltered world he knows.
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