SoSmooth1982
When I first saw this movie I thought it was going to be a funny movie. It's actually a serious drama movie. I still liked it but he's a prick in this movie.
As Good as It Gets
- Drama
- Comedy
- Romance
12/19/1997
139
PG-13
A comedy from the heart that goes for the throat. Brace yourself for Melvin.
Melvin Udall, a cranky, bigoted, obsessive-compulsive writer of romantic fiction, is rude to everyone he meets, including his gay neighbor, Simon. After Simon is hospitalized, Melvin finds his life turned upside down when he has to look after Simon's dog. In addition, Carol, the only waitress at the local diner who will tolerate him, must leave work to care for her sick son, making it impossible for Melvin to eat breakfast.
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- Revenue:
- $314,178,011
- Budget:
- $50,000,000
- new york city
- friendship
- waitress
- single parent
- restaurant
- lone wolf
- dogsitter
- road trip
- racist
- neighbor
- author
- obsessive compulsive disorder (ocd)
- single mother
- home invasion
- dog
- novelist
- art dealer
- rude
- obnoxious
- unlikely friendship
- hospitalization
- painter as artist
- generosity
- mother son relationship
- dog owner
- gay artist
- lgbt interest
- unexpected romance
- daily routine
- child with illness
- homophobic
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Cast
Jack NicholsonMelvin Udall
Helen HuntCarol Connelly- Greg KinnearSimon Bishop
- Cuba Gooding Jr.Frank Sachs
- Shirley KnightBeverly Connelly
- Jesse JamesSpencer Connelly
- Yeardley SmithJackie Simpson
- Lupe OntiverosNora Manning
- Skeet UlrichVincent Lopiano
- Harold RamisDr. Bettes
- Bibi OsterwaldNeighbor Woman
- Ross BlecknerCarl
- Bernadette BalagtasCaterer
- Jaffe CohenPartygoer
- Laurie KilpatrickPartygoer
- Alice VaughnPartygoer
Reviews
Arcanum101
This movie will hit you hard, force you to think about your biases and make you pretty damn uncomfortable. But don't fret, you'll feel better by the end. And Nicholson is so natural as a misanthrope.
Geronimo1967
Greg Kinnear ("Simon") finds himself in hospital after a brutal bit of gay-bashing, and that means that his small, yappie, dog ("Jill") has to be entrusted to his rather curmudgeonly, author neighbour "Melvin" (Jack Nicholson) - not exactly the most loving and obvious of choices. Now this latter guy isn't exactly flavour of the month - indeed it's really only waitress "Carol" (Helen Hunt) who will put up with his selfish and churlish behaviour. When her young son becomes ill, she has to take time off and "Melvin" finds himself truly alone - with no breakfast! The solution, well all three of them take a trip and, well, you can imagine that with Nicholson and Hunt on super form here, Kinnear clearly thriving as their foil, and a screenplay fr...