TY - ADVS AU - Nicholson,Jack AU - Hunt,Helen AU - Kinnear,Greg AU - Gooding,Cuba AU - Brooks,James L. AU - Andrus,Mark ED - Tri-Star Pictures. ED - Gracie Films. TI - As good as it gets U1 - 791.4372 PY - 2008/// CY - London PB - Sony Pictures Home Entertainment KW - Comedy films KW - Feature films KW - Man-woman relationships KW - Drama KW - Obsessive-compulsive disorder N1 - Originally produced as a motion picture in 1997; Director of photography, John Bailey ; editor, Richard Marks ; music, Hans Zimmer; Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Skeet Ulrich, Shirley Knight N2 - Melvin Udall is an obsessive-compulsive novelist with Manhattan's meanest mouth. But when his gay 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 in the human race ER -