Genre:
Romantic Comedy
Directed
by: James L. Brooks
Cast:
Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear
Running
time: 139 minutes
Melvin Udall is a misanthropic novelist living
alone in a New York apartment. His OCD locks him up in a series of habits that
have a severe control over his existence. Every day, he eats breakfast at a
nearby restaurant, where he uses his own plastic utensils due to his fear of
germs. He terrorizes staff and customers alike, but he develops a certain
attachment to one waitress who works there, Carol Connelly, a single mother
raising her very sick kid. When Melvin is forced to babysit his neighbor Simon
Bishop’s dog, after Bishop is savagely beaten up during a robbery in his
apartment, the misanthropic man’s life is turned upside down and he is forced
to reconsider his way of dealing with people and with his life.
As Good As It Gets goes into overdrive when
it comes to sentimentality, but the performances by Nicholson and Hunt are so
convincingly solid that it makes up for it. Jack is especially in top form
here. When the veteran actor is given good lines, he delivers them in memorable
fashion.
This is a film I like very much. Lots of
laughter and some moments of tenderness.
Rating: ««««
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