As Good as it Gets
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| Directed by | James L. Brooks |
| Produced by | James L. Brooks Bridget Johnson Kristi Zea |
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Mark Andrus James L. Brooks |
| Story by | Mark Andrus |
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| Music by | Hans Zimmer |
| Cinematography | John Bailey |
| Edited by | Richard Marks |
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| Distributed by | TriStar Pictures |
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139 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $50 million |
| Box office | $314,178,011 |
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| Soundtrack album by Hans Zimmer and various artists | |
| Released | January 13, 1998 |
| Label | Sony Records |
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. The paintings were created for the film by New York artist Billy Sullivan, whose work is part of the modern art collection at NYC's Metropolitan Museum of Art and the New Orleans Museum of Art.
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 140th on Empire magazine's "The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time" list.
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 fear of germs. He takes an interest in his waitress, Carol Connelly, the only server at the restaurant who can tolerate his behavior.
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