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as good as it gets

   

TITLE As Good As It Gets (1997)

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DISABILITY General Asthma, Obsessive Compulsion Disorder

COUNTRY USA

LENGTH 138

GENRE Drama

DIRECTOR James L. Brooks

CAST Jack Nicholson

Helen Hunt

Greg Kinnear

Cuba Gooding Jr.

Shirley Knight

NOTES Nicholson plays a romantic novelist with obsessive

compulsion disorder. That's where you carry out

meaningless repetitive actions and much hand scrubbing.

He's also very rude to everyone, especially women. The only

person who tolerates him is a waitress (Helen Hunt) who has

a son with chronic asthma. He is redeemed and they fall in

love and his Obsessive Compulsive Disorder moves to the back burner, as it were, showing this is a romantic drama.

Hunt has long been underrated and here she shows what she

can do. (She and Nicholson won Oscars).

 


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