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From Wikipedia: As Good as It Gets   is a 1997 American   romantic comedy film   directed by   James L. Brooks   and produced by   Laura Ziskin . It stars   Jack Nicholson   as a   misanthropic ,   obsessive-compulsive   novelist,   Helen Hunt   as a single mother with an   asthmatic   son, and   Greg Kinnear   as a   gay   artist. The screenplay was written by   Mark Andrus   and James L. Brooks.  Nicholson and Hunt won the   Academy Award for Best Actor   and   Academy Award for Best Actress , respectively, making   As Good As It Gets   the most-recent film to win both of the lead acting awards, and the first since 1991's   The Silence of the Lambs . It is ranked 140th on   Empire   magazine's "The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time" list. Honestly, even if I admire dear Jack Nicholson a lot, I would have wanted someone like Sea...

James L. Brooks is really one of the best storytellers and directors there is.  He did have some flops, but more often than not, he delivers.  BROADCAST NEWS is very memorable to me.  I loved the way the story was weaved, the characters and the actors who portrayed the role and how I, as a member of the audience, was able to relate to each and everyone of them.   I could see myself in Tom Grunick, Jane Craig and Aaron Altman.    Sometimes I was even Rorish and maybe even Jennifer Mack.  A part of me was Blair Litton.  I could go on and on and on. Sigh. I was into every tear, laughter, anger...every other emotion I could think of.  It is really a great story. Like most women, I love Holly Hunter's polka-dotted black dress.  It was simple and yet it was very alluring. This movie also reminds me why I never became a professional newscaster.  The vain person that I am, I couldn't take seeing an uglier versi...

More or less, I've seen this movie twice.  Once as a full film feature and in parts.  The truth is that I never intended to see this again after a long time .  Why? Not because I didn't like it the first time I watched it, but nothing really drove me to see it again and again and again.  There are movies that have that kind of effect on me and this was not one of it. I have respect for the actors for all of them are very versatile.  I have great respect for James L. Brooks who wrote and directed the play.  The story weaving is almost seamless, but... But what?   There was something missing. Something I could not name. Anyways, when it was being aired again on TV I got a little interested again, so I joined my mom, but left when I had to.  Later, she watched it again, around the middle part, and I finished the film with her. She seemed to like the twists and turns that kind of convinced me that it was worth a second look as a full feature f...