As Good as It Gets (1997)

Name: As Good as It Gets
Released: 1997
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear, Cuba Gooding Jr., Shirley Knight

• Movies, Comedy, Drama, Romance

• 139 min

7.3

A comedy from the heart that goes for the throat. Brace yourself for Melvin.

Directed by: James L. Brooks
Casting: Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear, Cuba Gooding Jr., Shirley Knight, Jesse James, Yeardley Smith, Lupe Ontiveros, Skeet Ulrich, Harold Ramis, Lawrence Kasdan, Bibi Osterwald, Ross Bleckner, Bernadette Balagtas, Jaffe Cohen, Laurie Kilpatrick, Alice Vaughn, Brian Doyle-Murray, Kristi Zea, Annie Maginnis Tippe, Patricia Childress, Rebekah Johnson, Missi Pyle, Leslie Stefanson, Tara Subkoff, Shane Black, Peter Jacobson, Lisa Edelstein, Stan Bly, Randall Batinkoff, Jamie Kennedy, Justin Herwick, Maya Rudolph, John F. O'Donohue, Dr. David A. Kipper, Mary Elizabeth Still, Chloe Brooks, Cooper Brooks, Sharon L. Alexander, Holly Denys, Alison Rose, Kathryn Morris, Wood Harris, Linda Gehringer, Julie Benz, Antonia Jones, Kaitlin Hopkins, Jimmy Workman, Danielle Spencer, Todd Solondz, Tom McGowan, Danielle Brisebois, Matt Malloy, Paul Greenberg, Kirk Ringberg, Dave Hawthorne, Dunya Djordjevic, Alex Ballar, Jason Thomas Campbell, Amy Anzel, Eliza Harris, Eddie L. Fauria, Frank Slaten, Laura Mayes Byrnes, Oriana Nicole Tavoularis, Roger Ferreira, Bronwyn Cornelius, Maurice LaMarche
Countries: United States of America
Premiere: 1997-12-19
Status: Released

Tags: new york city, friendship, waitress, single parent, restaurant, lone wolf, dogsitter, road trip, racist, neighbor, author, obsessive compulsive disorder (ocd), single mother, home invasion, dog, novelist, art dealer, rude, obnoxious, unlikely friendship, hospitalization, painter as artist, generosity, mother son relationship, dog owner, gay artist, unexpected romance, daily routine, child with illness, homophobic

Melvin Udall, a cranky, bigoted, obsessive-compulsive writer of romantic fiction, is rude to everyone he meets, including his gay neighbor, Simon. After Simon is brutally attacked and hospitalized, Melvin finds his life turned upside down when he has to look after Simon's dog. In addition, Carol, the only waitress at the local diner who will tolerate him, leaves work to care for her chronically ill son, making it impossible for Melvin to eat breakfast.