As Good as It Gets
1997 film by James L. Brooks / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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As Good as It Gets is a 1997 American romantic comedy-drama 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 premiered at the Regency Village Theatre on December 6, 1997, and was released theatrically in the United States on December 25, 1997, and was a critical and box office hit, grossing $314.1 million on a $50 million budget.
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Directed by | James L. Brooks |
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Story by | Mark Andrus |
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Cinematography | John Bailey |
Edited by | Richard Marks |
Music by | Hans Zimmer |
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Distributed by | Sony Pictures Releasing |
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Running time | 139 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $50 million[1] |
Box office | $314.1 million[1] |
Nicholson and Hunt won the Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Actress, respectively, making it the most recent film to win both of the lead acting awards, and the first since The Silence of the Lambs (1991). It was also nominated for Best Picture.[2] It is ranked 140th on Empire magazine's "The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time" list.[3]