As Good As It Gets
The film follows story of Melvin Udall, a New York compulsive writer when he is forced to take care of the dog of his neighbor, Simon who is a gay artist. Melvin also has a difficult relationship with Carol, a single mom waitress. The friendship between three people starts to be built up when they go on a weekend trip together to Baltimore.
16 December 1961, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
21 November 1944, Chicago, Illinois, USA
19 March 1947, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
16 October 1968, Monticello, New York, USA
21 May 1966, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
April 14, 1971 in Bakersfield, California, USA
15 June 1963, Culver City, California, USA
24 June 1965, North Trenton, New Jersey, USA
3 September 1976, Ohio, USA
5 July 1936, Goessel, Kansas, USA
25 May 1970, Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, USA
14 January 1949, Miami, Florida, USA
24 October 1948, New York, USA
4 October 1980, Fairfax, Virginia, USA
1948
3 July 1964, Paris, France
September 03, 2008
The movie's too long, and the direction is sometimes slack -- but the script is crammed with withering ripostes, ably delivered by Nicholson and Hunt.
June 24, 2006
The trouble lies in the rambling narrative, Brooks' cautious direction and the cosy tone which renders the whole thing reminiscent of an extended sitcom.
January 01, 2000
Nicholson struggles for the core of the man but never gets it; so, in most scenes, he resorts to working his face, with grimaces and sneering smiles and lip-pursings in place of acting.
December 30, 2006
Not only one of the best romantic comedies of the year, but one of the best films in ages.
January 02, 2011
Funny, but not a light comedy for youngsters.
July 02, 2008
A sporadically funny romantic comedy with all the dramatic plausibility and tonal consistency of a TV variety show.
April 12, 2002
Romance comedies definitely come better than this, although perhaps not lately.
March 29, 2009
The greatest pleasures come from the acting.
February 14, 2001
It's a mark of how magically written, directed and acted As Good as It Gets is that we end up loving this film despite knowing how haphazard, scattershot and almost indefinable its charm is.
February 24, 2006
Both funny and sad, the comedy was in the vein of Brooks' Terms of Endearment, except it was more eccentric and nuttier and in moments genuinely touching due to strong chemistry between Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt.
February 14, 2001
It's fun to watch Jack Nicholson draw on great reservoirs of bile to play a mean SOB with an obsessive-compulsive disorder.
