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As Good As It Gets
1996
Melvin Udall is a novelist who delights in his own ability to offend, repulse, affront and wound - not minding who he upsets in the process. It takes waitress Carol Connelly and the unexpected act of kindness of babysitting a neighbour's dog to put him back on track... Read more
| Starring | Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear, Cuba Gooding Jr. |
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| Director | James L. Brooks |
| Genres | Comedy |
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As Good As It Gets
Melvin Udall is a novelist who delights in his own ability to offend, repulse, affront and wound - not minding who he upsets in the process. It takes waitress Carol Connelly and the unexpected act of kindness of babysitting a neighbour's dog to put him back on track...
| Starring | Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear, Cuba Gooding Jr., Skeet Ulrich, Shirley Knight |
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| Director | James L. Brooks |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 13 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Collections | 100 Rom-Coms |
| Genres | Comedy |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Dubbed | German |
| Subtitles | DVD: English, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Icelandic, Hindi, Hebrew, German, Turkish, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Greek, Norwegian |
| Released | DVD: 21 Dec 1998 Production year: 1996 |
| Format | DVD |
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A sour-toned comedy about damaged people that, for all its occasional glibness and the ease with which its problems are solved, somehow works; it convinces as long as the movie lasts.
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"...It shows off Mr. Brooks's gift for the right-on zinger and his sweet, rueful way of enjoying his characters' stubborn tics....As winning as it is barbed..."
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23 out of 24 people found this review helpful
Nicholson is just superb, if you have a big heart watch this one
The film opens in such a way that you are immediately given the ingredients to make instant decisions on your opinion of the four main characters.
Melvin (Nicholson) is an obsessive, cruel bigot, hating everyone and everything and living next to ..
Simon (Kinnear)a talented gay artist who adores his dog
Hunt plays Carol an exceptionally patient waitress, who is the only one in the restaurant that will tolerate serving Melvin, despite his outrageous comment about her seriously sick son who she worships.
The fourth character is Simon's dog. If there was an Oscar for animal acting this dog would get one. Just wonderful!
The film then takes you on wonderful trip on how their characters develop and change, as a result of them being forced into each others company
I will not spoil the film by revealing anymore other than to highly recemmend it.
It's a film that delivered everything for me, with great acting and an intelligently witty and thought provoking script. -
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
Truly is Good!
Sometimes, certain films just seem to work so well that you can't imagine anyone not enjoying it. To me, this falls under that category. It's a feelgood romantic comedy that never fails to hit the right spots in terms of entertainment.
Jack Nicholson as Melvin Udall, plays the part so well; Melvin is cold and bitter and yet, Jack places elements of himself in there so that you warm up to the character and actually like him. Helen Hunt and Greg Kinnear also offer support and fulfil their roles to a high standard. The writing is warm and funny and helps make this one of the better romantic comedies of more recent times. -
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Then She Found Me
- 15 Sep 2008
Kudos to Helen Hunt. Ten years ago she had the most popular sitcom on US TV (Mad About You) and won an Oscar for serving Jack Nicholson in As Good As It Gets. But after a little flurry of movies around the millennium (including Dr T and the Women and What Women Want) she seemed to shrink from view. There was A Good Woman, a small part in Emilio Estevez’s Bobby, and the TV movie Empire Falls, but that’s all we’ve seen of her in the last six years. Now we know why. It’s... Read more
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As Good As It Gets
Melvin Udall is a novelist who delights in his own ability to offend, repulse, affront and wound - not minding who he upsets in the process. It takes waitress Carol Connelly and the unexpected act of kindness of babysitting a neighbour's dog to put him back on track......
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