“As Good As It Gets” quotes
(1997)
James L. Brooks
directed this movie
in 1997
Title As Good As It Gets
Original title As Good as It Gets
Year 1997
Director James L. Brooks
Genre Drama, Comedy, Romance
Original title As Good as It Gets
Year 1997
Director James L. Brooks
Genre Drama, Comedy, Romance
Plot – In New York, Melvin Udall is a writer of sentimental novels who suffers from OCD. He has fun insulting and hurting other people, who react harshly. A talented painter called Simon lives in front of his flat. He is the hit of the actual New York’s artistic scene, he’s openly gay and he’s victim of the neighbor’s meanness.
Every day Melvin has breakfast in a restaurant where Carol is the only waitress who listens to his jokes. She is a single mother with a son who suffers from chronic asthma. One day, Simon invites a young model for a portrait, but the guy calls some friends that destroy the house, steal everything and brutally beat the painter up. While he’s at the hospital, Melvin agrees to take care of Verdell, Simon’s dog: strangely, the two become friends. Then Melvin finds out about Carol’s son illness: he sends a doctor to the woman, who prescribes a strict and highly effective therapy. Carol is embarrassed, so she tells Melvin that she doesn’t want to have anything to do with him. Is she truly sure? Behind that cynical mask hides a sensitive man who’s worthy to love her.
Every day Melvin has breakfast in a restaurant where Carol is the only waitress who listens to his jokes. She is a single mother with a son who suffers from chronic asthma. One day, Simon invites a young model for a portrait, but the guy calls some friends that destroy the house, steal everything and brutally beat the painter up. While he’s at the hospital, Melvin agrees to take care of Verdell, Simon’s dog: strangely, the two become friends. Then Melvin finds out about Carol’s son illness: he sends a doctor to the woman, who prescribes a strict and highly effective therapy. Carol is embarrassed, so she tells Melvin that she doesn’t want to have anything to do with him. Is she truly sure? Behind that cynical mask hides a sensitive man who’s worthy to love her.
All actors – Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear, Cuba Gooding Jr., Skeet Ulrich, Shirley Knight, Yeardley Smith, Lupe Ontiveros, Jill the Dog, Timer the Dog, Billy the Dog, Bibi Osterwald, Ross Bleckner, Bernadette Balagtas, Jaffe Cohen, Laurie Kilpatrick, Alice Vaughn, Brian Doyle-Murray, Kristi Zea, Annie Maginnis Tippe, Patricia Childress, Rebekah Johnson, Missi Pyle, Leslie Stefanson, Tara Subkoff, Shane Black, Peter Jacobson, Lisa Edelstein, Stan Bly, Randall Batinkoff, Jesse James, Jamie Kennedy, Justin Herwick, Maya Rudolph, John F. O'Donohue, David A. Kipper, Mary Elizabeth Still, Chloe Brooks, Cooper Brooks, Sharon L. Alexander, Holly Denys, Lawrence Kasdan, Alison Rose, Kathryn Morris, Wood Harris, Linda Gehringer, Julie Benz, Harold Ramis, Antonia Jones, Kaitlin Hopkins, Jimmy Workman, Danielle Spencer, Todd Solondz, Tom McGowan, Danielle Brisebois, Matt Malloy, Paul Greenberg, Kirk Ringberg, Dave Hawthorne, Alba Albanese, Roger Ferreira, Amy Anzel, Alex Ballar, Joe Beachy, Jason Thomas Campbell, Bronwyn Cornelius, Dunya Djordjevic, Eddie L. Fauria, James Gosnell, Eliza Harris, Maurice LaMarche, Laura Mayes, Nicole Salter, Frank Slaten, Oriana Nicole Tavoularis, Justin Ward
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“- Carol Connelly: Do you have any control over how creepy you allow yourself to get?
- Melvin Udall: Yes I do, as a matter of fact. And to prove it, I have not gotten personal, and you have.”
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