As Good As it Gets Released Date, Rating, Genre, Cast

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Released Date

December 6, 1997

Distributor

Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE)

Genre

Romance

Rating

PG-13

Budget

$50,000,000

Worldwide Gross

Domestic Gross + International Gross = Worldwide Gross
$148,478,011 + $165,700,000 = $314,178,011

Cast

Skeet Ulrich, Missi Pyle, Jack Nicholson, Maya Rudolph, Cuba Gooding Jr., Helen Hunt, Yeardley Smith, Harold Ramis, Jamie Kennedy, Greg Kinnear, Jesse James, Brian Doyle-Murray, Lupe Ontiveros, Shirley Knight, Lawrence Kasdan

Skeet Ulrich

as Vincent Lopiano

Missi Pyle

as Cafe 24 Waitress

Jack Nicholson

as Melvin Udall

Maya Rudolph

as Policewomen

Cuba Gooding Jr.

as Frank Sachs

Helen Hunt

as Carol Connelly

Yeardley Smith

as Jackie Simpson

1944-2014

Harold Ramis

as Dr. Martin Bettes

Jamie Kennedy

as Street Hustler

Greg Kinnear

as Simon Bishop

Jesse James

as Spencer Connelly

Brian Doyle-Murray

as Handyman

1942-2012

Lupe Ontiveros

as Nora Manning

1936-2020

Shirley Knight

as Beverly Connelly

Lawrence Kasdan

as Dr. Green

About As Good As it Gets

A single mother and waitress, a misanthropic author, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery.

About

An obsessive-compulsive romance novelist is rude to everyone in his path, but he starts to nicen up when he grows close to the only waitress at a local diner that will serve him.

Trivia

Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt both won the top acting awards at the Academy Awards that year. This was Nicholson's third win.