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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] |
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 7 awards, including Best Picture. Nicholson won for Best Actor and Hunt for Best Actress, making it 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]