"Sante Fe, 1960. An unemployed milkman and his brother-in-law end up in Los Angeles, where they become guinea pigs in a cryogenics experiment. After 29 years of being frozen, the two are awoken accidentally and must now attempt to cope with the realities of America in the 1990's and their middle-aged loved ones."
"Trotz ihrer konventionellen Story über einen zwanghaften Geizkragen (Jack Nicholson), der auf Drängen seines schwulen Nachbarn (Greg Kinnear) an seiner Persönlichkeit arbeitet, und eine Kellnerin (Helen Hunt), die ihn zu vorbildlichem Benehmen inspiriert, ist dies eine der heißesten Hollywood-Komödien der 90er Jahre. Nicholson hätte seine Rolle noch im Schlaf spielen können (der Oscar, der ihm dafür verliehen wurde, hätte eher an Robert ..."
"Trotz ihrer konventionellen Story über einen zwanghaften Geizkragen (Jack Nicholson), der auf Drängen seines schwulen Nachbarn (Greg Kinnear) an seiner Persönlichkeit arbeitet, und einer Kellnerin (Helen Hunt), die ihn zu vorbildlichem Benehmen inspiriert, ist dies eine der heißesten Hollywood-Komödien der 90er Jahre. Nicholson hätte seine Rolle noch im Schlaf spielen können (der Oscar, der ihm dafür verliehen wurde, hätte eher an Rober ..."
"James L. Brooks is the man who brought you The Simpsons, Taxi, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Jerry Maguire, Terms of Endearment, and Broadcast News. Mark Andrus wrote 1991's proto-Austin Powers, 1960s time-trip movie Late for Dinner, of which critic Roger Ebert--with some reservations, of course--said, "I didn't want the movie to end." Andrus's and Brooks's As Good As It Gets is as good as movies get at sketching realistically screwed ..."
"Right after I made Eve's Bayou, some of the first people that saw it were Michelle
Pfeiffer and Kate Guinzburg, and kind of bravely, I think, they had me in for a
meeting with Kate Guinzburg, and she asked me to write a script for Michelle
Pfeiffer. I wrote a script called Privacy that everybody seems to like a good deal.
It's totally diametrically opposed to Eve's Bayou. It couldn't be more opposite. SBK
: How so? KL: Well, it's al ..."
As Good As It Gets(Tie-In Edition) Official Movie Tie-In (The NHB Shooting Scripts Series) by James L. Brooks, MarkAndrus Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 1998 by Nick Hern Books ISBN-13: 978-1-85459-400-6, ISBN: 1-85459-400-1
"AS GOOD AS IT GETS: Jack Nicholson Helen Hunt Greg Kinnear and Cuba Gooding Jr. star in James L. Brooks' hit comedy AS GOOD AS IT GETS. Nicholson gives a show-stopping performance as Melvin Udall an obsessive-compulsive novelist with Manhattan's meanest mouth. But when his neighbor Simon is hospitalized Melvin is forced to babysit Simon's dog. And that unexpected act of kindness along with waitress Carol Connelly helps put Melvin back i ..."
"Audio Commentary: with Director Irwin Winkler DVD ROM Features: Includes Script-to-Screen, the original website and more! Documentaries: Two original documentaries Other: 2.10.1 apsect ratioAudio Commentary: with Director Irwin Winkler DVD ROM Features: Includes Script-to-Screen, the original website and more! Documentaries: Two original documentaries Other: 2.10.1 apsect ratioAudio Commentary: with Director Irwin Winkler DVD ROM Featur ..."
"My Best Friend's Wedding One of the best romantic comedies of the 1990s, My Best Friend's Wedding not only gave Julia Roberts a delightful vehicle for her crowd-pleasing comeback, but it further distinguished itself by avoiding the conventional plotting of the genre. Julia plays a prominent Chicago restaurant critic whose best friend (Dermot Mulroney) is a former lover from her college days with whom she'd made a binding pact: if neithe ..."
"A respectable tearjerker, Life as a House is a welcome throwback to angst-ridden family dramas like Ordinary People and Terms of Endearment. It falls short of those modern classics, but you'll probably still need Kleenex if you appreciate Kevin Kline's underrated dramatic skills. As the title suggests, Kline's project is a broad metaphor for repairing damaged lives from the foundation up. Playing an architect with terminal cancer, he gi ..."
"For all of its conventional plotting about an obsessive-compulsive 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. Nicholson could play his role in his sleep (the Oscar he won should have gone to Robert Duvall for The Apostle), but his mischievous persona is pr ..."
"For all of its conventional plotting about an obsessive-compulsive 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. Nicholson could play his role in his sleep (the Oscar he won should have gone to Robert Duvall for The Apostle), but his mischievous persona is pr ..."