| Field | Details |
|---|---|
| Movie Name | AS GOOD AS IT GETS (1997) |
| Director | James L. Brooks |
| Writer | Mark Andrus, James L. Brooks |
| Lead Actor | Jack Nicholson |
| Cast | Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear |
| Genre | Comedy, Drama, Romance |
| Release Date | December 25, 1997 (United States) |
| Duration | 2h 19m(139 min) |
| Budget | $50 million |
| Language | English |
| IMDB Rating | 7.7/10 |
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REVIEW
Jack Nicholson plays an obnoxious New York writer who insults everyone and taunts a waitress about her sick child. He opens the film by dumping a nervous but very cute dog down a garbage chute. Soon the Don Rickles routine slows down and we realize we’re into a classic curmudgeon with a heart of gold story.
In this typically quirky comedy by producer director James L. Brooks (Terms of Endearment and Broadcast News), Nicholson’s Melvin Udall is an obsessive compulsive whose illness is used for both laughs and poignance. He brings his plastic picnicware every day to the same restaurant where the same waitress (Helen Hunt) brings him the same food. He loves it, and when she can’t come to work because of her son’s asthma, he finances medical help that controls the problem (a slam at her HMO, which Mickey Moused around proper help).
A single mom, she’s hugely grateful but worries about his intentions. He realizes his feelings go deeper and, because of their friendship, he begins to get healthier.
Melvin seems to be living proof that charity helps the giver. When he grumpily agrees to dog-sit for Simon, his gay artist neighbor (Greg Kinnear) who was beaten up by robbers, he bonds with the dog.
Soon Melvin will also find compassion for the previously detested Simon, who has been depressed by medical bills. Melvin drives Simon to Baltimore to seek needed money from his estranged parents. We’re touchingly reminded of the traumas of families broken by unforgiving misconceptions about sexuality.
This much too long, feel good movie is about people-in-pain who help each other. It makes humor out of life’s imperfections. Hunt, in movies and TV for 20 years, is no longer a surprise; Nicholson and Kinnear are in top form, with beaming support from Cuba Gooding, Jr., as Simon’s cheerful but confused agent and friend.
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