Find out where to watch, buy, and rent as good as it gets online on moviefone. Apr 17, 2020 hunt is arguably best known for her emmywinning performance on mad about you from 19921999, and for winning 1998s academy award for best actress for her work in as good as it gets opposite jack. As good as it gets, with jack nicholson, helen hunt, cube gooding jr. Helen hunt and jack nicholson after their best actress and actor. The fact that he has 12 academy nominations, the highest any male actor has ever had, aptly reflects his exemplary acting skills and prowess. Nicholson is also notable for being one of two actors the other being michael caine who have received an oscar nomination in every decade from the 1960s through the early 2000s.
As good as it gets the worldwide guide to movie locations. Her popularity on the television series mad about you 199299. Nicholson admits he initially didnt like playing the role of a middleaged man alongside much younger hunt, seeing it as a movie cliche. With terrific lead performances by jack nicholson as a demonic novelist and helen hunt as a manhattan waitress, as good as it gets is as good as mature adult entertainment gets on the silver screen. As good as it gets vhs tape movie jack nicholson, helen hunt. For the australian rules footballer, see jack nicholson footballer. Jack nicholson imitated his character on the way to the podium. Is that 26 year age gap insurmountable, or is it just us. Oct 31, 2018 angelica was the daughter of iconic film director john huston, and also starred in her fathers very last movie, a 1987 adaptation on one of james joyces dubliners short stories the dead. The best movie quotes, movie lines and film phrases by movie quotes. Brooks with jack nicholson, helen hunt, greg kinnear, cuba gooding jr. As good as it gets worldwide guide to movie locations.
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He is known for playing a wide range of starring or supporting roles, including comedy, romance, and darkly comic portrayals of antiheroes and. Nicholson is the only actor to date 2017 to ever star in a film for which he would win the oscar for best actor that would also receive a best actress oscar, and also be nominated for best actor in a supporting role. Nicholson plays a closedoff and cranky writer who must care for a neighbors dog while also finding an unexpected kinship with a lonely waitress helen hunt. John joseph nicholson born april 22, 1937 is a retired american actor and filmmaker whose career spans more than 50 years. Jack nicholson, original name john joseph nicholson, born april 22, 1937, neptune, new jersey, u. Melvin jack nicholson makes an offhand joke about her sons illness, which deeply offends carol helen hunt. Both helen hunt and jack nicholson won best leading actressactor oscars for their performance in this movie. Helen hunt, american actress known for her caustic wit and easy charm.
Bluray transfer is very good not excellent but good enough. Twenty years ago, jack nicholson hopped through the streets of manhattan, trying to avoid the cracks in the sidewalk in as good as it gets. Jack nicholson got the girl in the 2003 romcom somethings gotta give, but audiences never got a chance to see how far he went to woo diane keatons character when the film played in. Jack nicholson was 60 years old when he played melvin udall, which is a little too old for the character hes playing, especially when you consider that his costar and romantic love interest, helen hunt as carol the waitress, was just 34. Angelica was the daughter of iconic film director john huston, and also starred in her fathers very last movie, a 1987 adaptation on one of james joyces dubliners short stories the dead. At a nearby cafe, the only waitress willing to stand up to his sarcastic tirades is carol connelly helen hunt, a single mother struggling to raise her chronically asthmatic son. Jack had his doubts about playing a quasiromantic role next to much younger actress helen hunt. Jack nicholson, helen hunt, greg kinnear, cuba gooding jr. One of the few actors to exemplify the counterculture yet seamlessly.
Jack nicholson broke angelica hustons heart she paid him. Anyway, we decided to do a quote off on varying phrases which mr. Nicholson plays melvin, a successful novelist living in new york city. A precociously talented youngster, helen hunt was drawing paychecks as a television actress from the age of ten. Before she was 17, she had appeared as a regular on two series, featurev129352swiss family robinsontheswissfamilyrobinson 1975.
Jack nicholson broke angelica hustons heart she paid. As good as it gets vhs tape movie jack nicholson, helen. Instead, it provides sometimespainful moments of selfdiscovery and the. With jack nicholson, helen hunt, greg kinnear, cuba gooding jr a single mother and waitress, a misanthropic author, and a. Melvin suffers from ocd and never likes to leave his apartment, unless he is going to his favorite restaurant. As good as it gets 1997 rotten tomatoes movie trailers. As good as it gets jack nicholson, helen hunt 50 films i love film. Helen hunt nude photos found are you mad about her. It stars jack nicholson, helen hunt, and greg kinnear. Nicholson is the only actor to date 2017 to ever star in a film for which he would win the oscar for best actor that would also receive a best actress oscar, and also be nominated for best actor in a supporting.
Helen hunt and jack nicholson garnered academy awards, and kinnear a nomination, for their truetolife performances and all three were welldeserved. In new york, melvin udall jack nicholson is the most dysfunctional of men, an acidtongued romance novelist who suffers from obsessivecompulsive disorder. After his homosexual neighbor greg kinnear is brutally beaten, he is entrusted to the care of the neighbors dog, with a difficult relationship with a waitress helen hunt to add on top of that. With jack nicholson, helen hunt, greg kinnear, cuba gooding jr a single mother and waitress, a misanthropic author, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery. A single mother and waitress, a misanthropic author, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery. The film companion is a web channel intended to promote indian. Helen hunt plays the only waitress in a restaurant who will. The performances by each one of the talented actors are the heart and motor of this film. One of cinemas truly iconic actors of the past fifty years, jack nicholson celebrates his 80th birthday today 22 april.
The film stars jack nicholson as a misanthropic and obsessivecompulsive novelist, helen hunt as a single mother with a chronically ill son, and greg kinnear as a homosexual artist. Hunt is arguably best known for her emmywinning performance on mad about you from 19921999, and for winning 1998s academy award for best actress for. As good as it gets movie 1997 trailer video dailymotion. Best romantic movies on netflix youll actually want to. She first met jack nicholson at his birthday party which he hosted at his mulholland drive estate in l. As good as it gets is a 1997 american romantic comedy film directed by james l. Often pitched as a romantic comedy, as good as it gets eschews the saccharine aftertaste of many such films. Jack nicholson and helen hunt in as good as it gets. The film stars jack nicholson as a misanthropic and obsessivecompulsive novelist, helen hunt. He is rude and vulgar but also charming and sweet at times. Jack nicholson, helen hunt, greg kinnear and cuba gooding, jr.
Sealed as good as it gets vhs video tape movie helen hunt jack nicholson new. As good as it gets movie 1997 jack nicholson, helen hunt, greg. Nicholson plays melvin udall, a meanspirited, obsessivecompulsive writer who is entrusted with a gay mans dog when the man is assaulted and hospitalized. Jack nicholson is one of the most versatile and talented actors that hollywood has ever had. Reports from hollywood claim that jack nicholson has quietly ended his long and illustrious movie. You make me want to be a better man as good as it gets. Jenny brown as good as it gets for all of its conventional plotting about an obsessivecompulsive curmudgeon jack nicholson who improves his personality at the urging of his gay neighbor greg kinnear and a waitress helen hunt who inspires his best behavior, this is one of the sharpest hollywood comedies of the 1990s. As good as it gets vhs movie jack nicholson helen hunt. As a kid, helen took a forgettable turn as gavin macleods daughter on the mary tyler moore show courtesy of the coolest dad in hollywood. Now over 50, helen snagged an oscar for putting up with legend jack nicholson in as good as it gets.
Nicholson first broke into the scene with the lowbudget teen film the cry baby killer in 1958. Jack nicholson and helen hunt won the best actor and best actress oscars respectively for this film, while greg kinnear was nominated for best actor in a supporting role. Apr 17, 2016 had the events of the film been a reality, helen hunt would now still only be 52 and shed be married with kids to the cantankerous 78 year old jack nicholson. Nicholson gets the chance to play a bad boy role once again, but this time with a lot more complexity. Apr 06, 2020 helen hunt, american actress known for her caustic wit and easy charm. Jack nicholson serenades diane keaton in deleted scene. Jack nicholson, an american actor, producer, director and screenwriter, is a threetime academy award winner and twelvetime nominee. But helen disarmed that at the first meeting, he says, and i stopped thinking about it. Jack nicholson melvin udall helen hunt carol connelly tag.
Jack nicholson, one of the most prominent american motionpicture actors of his generation, especially noted for his versatile portrayals of unconventional, alienated outsiders. The paintings were created for the film by new york artist billy sullivan. Carol helen hunt asks for a compliment, and melvin jack nicholson takes a very convoluted path to give her one. Nov 26, 2018 as good as it gets, with jack nicholson, helen hunt, cube gooding jr. The trials and tribulations of a compulsive writer, melvin udall jack nicholson. There was a scene early in the movie where helen confronts jack, talking. Every year, the academy nominates some great and some not so great films for best picture. Had the events of the film been a reality, helen hunt would now still only be 52 and shed be married with kids to the cantankerous 78 year old jack nicholson. Oct 18, 2017 at the height of her career, hunt was starring in films like 1997s as good as it gets, and the combination of her charisma and jack nicholson s expert crack avoidance netted the romcom almost. Jack nicholson and helen hunt share an incredible chemistry together.
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