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As Good As It Gets Details

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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.
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
Director James L. Brooks
Run time DVD: 2 hrs 13 mins
Certificate DVD Certificate 15.gif
Collections 100 Rom-Coms
Genres Comedy
Language English
Dubbed German
Subtitles English, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Icelandic, Hindi, Hebrew, German, Turkish, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Greek, Norwegian
Released DVD: 21 Dec 1998
Production year: 1996
Format DVD

  • Critics' reviews (6) of As Good As It Gets

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  • 3 stars out of 4

    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.

    • Halliwell's Film Guide
    • Posted 02 Mar 2006

  • "...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..."

    • New York Times
    • Posted 11 Mar 2005

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  • 23 out of 24 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    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.

      • LD from Herts
      • Posted 05 Mar 2004 14:19

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  • 9 out of 11 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    As good as Jack gets

    This film features one of the most unusual and yet common themes of our generation. Jack Nicholson again plays an amazing part and sucks you in to his character within the first five minutes of the film.

    The sub-plots are excellent in themselves and the film manages to deal with sensitive issues in a way that everyone can relate to. This movie will help you to appreciate the things you take for granted and hopefully to not assess everyone on face value.

    Moving, heart-warming, funny and serious - as good as it gets.

      • Lozbomb from Co Durham
      • Posted 16 Oct 2003 09:42

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    • 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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      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......