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Film · 1997 · Romantic comedy
As Good as it Gets
Directed by James L. Brooks
1997
★ 4.8 editorial score
Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt both won Academy Awards for a romantic comedy, which almost never happens: he plays a novelist nobody can stand, and the film does not soften him much.
“Melvin is an obsessive-compulsive SOB, Simon's recovering from a severe beating, and Carol's son could die from asthma at any moment. And this is a comedy? For Brooks...life is only parenthetically about suffering. What matters to him – and what usually entertains us – is the way his characters complain, behave and verbalize as they undergo this lifelong misery at work, in the family, or in their fractured relationships.”
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