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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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 |  |
| 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 | Production year: 1996 To Rent: DVD: 21 Dec 1998 |
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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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.
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Jack Nicholson Mean-man gold
Jack Nicholson always plays the bad guy and doesn't disappoint in this role as a seriously miserable old git. Very funny, some great punchlines and I loved ... read more »
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Not bad
Enjoyable but not the most outstanding of films.I have seen other Jack Nicholson films that were much better than this one.
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It is as good as it gets.
Oh what a film ! I have seen this so many times and still love it. Jack Nicholson's brilliantly cutting one liners are classic. If you have, or know any one... read more »
Actress Helen Hunt gave the woman she plays in new movie Soul Surfer the courage to get back in the sea for the first time since her daughter lost an arm to a shark. The As Good As It Gets star portrays Cheri Hamilton in the Bethany Hamilton biopic and admits she spent much of the film trying to get the young surfer's mum to hit the waves again. Hunt says, "Her mother was a big wave surfer in Kauai in the 70s and she had not gotten back in the water since this happened to her daughter and I... Read more
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