As Good as It Gets

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As Good as It Gets
Jack Nicholson, portraying as Melvin Udall, seen wearing sunglasses looks upward smiling. The top headline reads "Brace Yourself for Melvin". Between the film's title and addition credits, another tagline reads "A comedy from the heart that goes for the throat."
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJames L. Brooks
Screenplay by
Story byMark Andrus
Produced by
  • James L. Brooks
  • Bridget Johnson
  • Kristi Zea
Starring
CinematographyJohn Bailey
Edited byRichard Marks
Music byHans Zimmer
Production
companies
Distributed bySony Pictures Releasing
Release dates
Running time
139 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$50 million[1]
Box office$314.1 million[1]

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.

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 for seven awards, including Best Picture. Nicholson won for Best Actor and Hunt for Best Actress, making As Good as It Gets the most recent film to win both of the lead-acting awards. It is ranked 140th on Empire magazine's "The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time" list.[2]

  1. ^ a b "Box office statistics for As Good as It Gets (1997)" Archived July 14, 2019, at the Wayback Machine Box Office Mojo. Retrieved June 11, 2010.
  2. ^ "Empire Features". Empire. Archived from the original on October 14, 2012. Retrieved October 17, 2009.