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As Good as It Gets
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*As Good as It Gets* is a 1997 American comedy drama and romance film directed by James L. Brooks. The screenplay was written by Mark Andrus and Brooks, who also produced the film alongside Kristi Zea. The cast includes Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear, and Cuba Gooding Jr. Hans Zimmer composed the score, while John Bailey served as director of photography and Richard Marks as film editor. Production was handled by Gracie Films and TriStar Pictures, with filming taking place in New York City and Long Beach.
The film has a runtime of 139 minutes and was distributed by TriStar Pictures and Netflix. It was released on December 19, 1997, with a budget of $50,000,000 and a box office revenue of $314,178,011. The movie received nominations for the Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Supporting Actor. It won the Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Actress, as well as the National Board of Review: Top Ten Films. Audience ratings include a 7.7 score on IMDb and a 7.402 average on TMDb.
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7.4A misanthropic author, a single mother and waitress, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery.
Cast
- Jack Nicholson as Melvin Udall
- Helen Hunt as Carol Connelly
- Greg Kinnear as Simon Bishop
- Cuba Gooding Jr. as Frank Sachs
- Shirley Knight as Beverly Connelly
- Jesse James as Spencer Connelly
Themes
- new york city
- friendship
- waitress
- single parent
- restaurant
- lone wolf
- dogsitter
- road trip
- racist
- neighbor
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Director
- James L. Brooks
- Screenwriter
- Mark Andrus
- Composer
- Hans Zimmer
- Producer
- Kristi Zea
- Production company
- Gracie Films
- Cinematographer
- John Bailey
- Narrative location
- New York City
- Filming location
- New York City
- Duration
- 133
- FilmAffinity ID
- 256051
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- film editor
- Richard Marks
- title
- As Good as It Gets
- distributed by
- Netflix
- executive producer
- Laurence Mark
- box office
- 314000000
- capital cost
- 50000000
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 86%
- publication date
- 1998-02-12
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Encyclopedic overview
As Good as It Gets is a 1997 American romantic comedy film directed by James L. Brooks from a screenplay he co-wrote with Mark Andrus. It stars Jack Nicholson as a misanthropic, bigoted and obsessive–compulsive novelist, Helen Hunt as a single mother with a chronically ill son, and Greg Kinnear as a gay artist. The film was produced by TriStar Pictures and Gracie Films and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing.
As Good as It Gets premiered at the Regency Village Theatre on December 6, 1997, and was released theatrically in the United States on Christmas Day. A critical and box office hit, it grossed $314.1 million on a $50 million budget. At the 70th Academy Awards, the film was nominated in seven categories, including Best Picture. Nicholson won for Best Actor and Hunt for Best Actress, making it the most recent film to win both lead acting awards. It is ranked 140th on Empire magazine's "The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time" list.
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