As Good As It Gets
1997
****½
Director: James L. Brooks
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear, Cuba Gooding Jr.
A brilliantly written and acted romantic comedy about a neurotic novelist who begins to fall for a troubled single mother. The lovers really connect only in the very end, which is refreshing, but perhaps they could have done it in less than 140 minutes. Nicholson and Hunt both won Oscars for their performances.
