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As Good as It Gets is a american film of genre Drama directed by James L. Brooks released in USA on 19 december 1997 with Jack Nicholson

As Good as It Gets (1997)

As Good as It Gets
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Released in USA 19 december 1997
Length 2h12
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Romantic comedy,    Romance
Rating76% 3.848243.848243.848243.848243.84824

As Good as It Gets is a 1997 American romantic comedy film directed by James L. Brooks and produced by Laura Ziskin. It stars Jack Nicholson as a misanthropic, racist, obsessive-compulsive novelist, Helen Hunt as a single mother with a chronically ill son, and Greg Kinnear as a gay artist. The screenplay was written by Mark Andrus and James L. Brooks.

Nicholson and Hunt won the Academy Award for Best Actor and Best Actress, respectively, making As Good As It Gets the most-recent film to win both of the lead acting awards, and the first since 1991's The Silence of the Lambs. It is ranked 141st on Empire magazine's "The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time" list.

Synopsis

Melvin Udall is a misanthrope who works at home as a best-selling novelist in New York City. He suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder which, paired with his misanthropy, alienates nearly everyone with whom he interacts. He avoids stepping on sidewalk cracks while walking through the city due to a superstition of bad luck, and eats breakfast at the same table in the same restaurant every day using disposable plastic utensils he brings with him due to his pathological mysophobia. He takes an interest in his waitress, Carol Connelly, the only server at the restaurant who can tolerate his behavior.

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