| As Good As It Gets [1998] | ![As Good As It Gets [1998]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41NE13WWRPL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: James L. Brooks
Actors: Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear, Cuba Gooding Jr., Skeet Ulrich
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
Buy New: £17.49
Avg. Customer Rating:  36 reviews
Sales Rank: 6677
Format: Dubbed, Letterboxed, Pal, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), German (Original Language), English (Subtitled), German (Subtitled), Hindi (Subtitled), Swedish (Subtitled), Turkish (Subtitled), Danish (Subtitled), Hungarian (Subtitled), Polish (Subtitled), Icelandic (Subtitled), Finnish (Subtitled), Czech (Subtitled), Greek (Subtitled)
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Running Time: 133 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5035822646131
ASIN: B00004CXL8
Theatrical Release Date: December 25, 1997
Release Date: December 21, 1998
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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 Excellent Performances All Round July 21, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
There are some severely moving and charismatic performances in this film, from Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear and Cuba Gooding Jnr.
It is about a writer called Melvin who goes through life offending everyone with his brutal honesty, due in part to his obsessive compulsive disorder. Against all odds, he eventually strikes up a relationship of sorts with a waitress named Carol, who he has taken a shine to, and another friendship with a gay neighbour called Simon.
This culminates in a holiday for all three of them, to visit Simon's parents, as he has recently become bankrupt. There are an abundance of hilarious, but also emotional moments, and this film frequently had me in tears. ALL of the performances are exqusite.
Give this film a chance and I doubt you'll regret it. It is warm right through to it's heart and likely to endear itself to most people.
Every spring... May 28, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I play this film when spring comes. I reckon I just like the atmosphere the whole film gives off - gentle, life affirming and hopeful.
People dream of future. we often think "I can't do it now - I am too busy/tired/preoccupied to do it today, but I will do that in near future...". Let it be seeing your friends/parents, painting your bedroom, studying art, moving to a new city, changimg your job, changing your life... But that 'future' always remains as 'future' and never comes to give us the time we need to do what we actually ought to be doing. Hence, our dreams do not come ture.
this film makes me think "Maybe I have to make today the first day of the future." That is the eason I love this film. After watching this film when I was 28 in Tokyo, I came back to London and started the first day of the future.
Oh, and the songs by Danielle Brisebois (sung by herself in the film. My favourite scene) are all so lovely. Who is she? If you do, please email me!
Offbeat, sizzling, and the double-Oscar February 17, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
There aren't many films where both lead actor and actress each pick up an Oscar (1997) but Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt shine like beacons in this quirky, off-beat, micro-tale of kindness, respect and compromise.
Jack plays Mr Udall, an obsessive-compulsive author who works all the time and will NOT be disturbed by his gay neighbour, Simon, played perfectly by Greg Kinnear. Mr Udall has a thing for a waitress, Helen Hunt, and she, despite his eccentricities, feels something for him. He helps her son - she's a single mother - in his struggle against asthma, simply so that Helen will be able to wait on him and not on her sick son.
Simon is beaten up and Mr Udall, almost incomprehensibly (but possibly due to Cuba J Gooding's persuasive qualities), takes him in. Simon, Mr Udall and Helen go on the most unlikely road trip ever, complete with Udall's labelled music choices including 'emergency use only', and they learn enough about each other to realise that each of them, through the others, has it 'as good as it gets.'
And this film is as good as it gets. Buy it, watch it, and watch it again.
It gets better every time you watch it January 22, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
One of the few films that I like the more I watch it.
It's not strictly a 'rom com', or pure Jack Nicholson film.
It's a very funny and touching film that over the course of 130 mins says , 'hey, think about it. This is as good as it gets!
Yes, you'll laugh, but you'll also be touched.
Watch it!
As Brilliant As It Gets August 31, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have only one criticism of this film - and that is that it first appears as generic romcom featuring a lonely heartless man who's life is, over the course of the film, enriched by those around him. Including the token cute animal. I confess, I had to be coerced into watching it by a large group of friends.
However, to actually watch this is to witness the re-writing of the romcom genre. Jack Nicholson takes insulting the people around him to a new and wonderful level, that leaves you crying with laughter, whilst at the same time releasing your inner Melvin and making you feel deliciously wicked at the enjoyment of such base and lowly humour. Helen Hunt is the surprisingly well-coiffed single mother, who remains beautifully human whilst being the heart of the film. Throw in Greg Kinnear and Cuba Gooding Jr's characters as the butts of the gay and black jokes, and you have award winning stuff.
Finally, this film could not be what it is without the pampered pooch that begins the film as the apple of the eye of Simon (the gay neighbour) and transforms into a canine Melvin, even picking up his OCD ticks along the way. 5 stars!
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