Melvin udall biography
- Biography.
- Melvin Udall, a cranky, bigoted, obsessive-compulsive writer, finds his life turned upside down when neighboring gay artist Simon is hospitalized and his dog is.
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Character Analysis
(Avoiding Spoilers)
Living... alone, in an upscale New York apartment. Melvin doesn't like his neighbors, considering them a bunch of morons and hippies. The only one he has grown to like is his gay neighbor, Simon.
Profession... author. Melvin's is a best-selling novelist, but ironically for someone who writes romance novels, he's never been in love himself.
Interests... eating where Carol, a waitress, works. The tables are usually dirty, and the place is filled with questionable types. Everyone there except Carol hates him – most days they tell him to never come back.
Relationship Status... single. Carol's the only woman he's had much interest in recently. She might only be a waitress, but Melvin thinks the world of her. As he puts it, "she's the greatest woman on earth...I think most people miss that about her, and I watch them, wondering how they can watch her bring their food, and clear their tables and never get that they just met the greatest woman alive."
Challenge... beating his obsessive-compulsive disorder. Melvin’s doctor says t
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As good as it gets
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.
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As Good as It Gets
1997 film by James L. Brooks
For other uses, see As Good as It Gets (disambiguation).
As Good as It Gets is a 1997 American romantic comedy film directed by James L. Brooks from a screenplay he co-wrote with Mark Andrus. It stars Jack Nicholson as a misanthropic, bigoted and obsessive–compulsive novelist, Helen Hunt as a single mother with a chronically ill son, and Greg Kinnear as a gay artist.
As Good as It Gets premiered at the Regency Village Theatre on December 6, 1997, and was released theatrically in the United States on Christmas Day. A critical and box office hit, it grossed $314.1 million on a $50 million budget. At the 70th Academy Awards, the film was nominated for 7 awards, including Best Picture. Nicholson won for Best Actor and Hunt for Best Actress, making it the most recent film to win both of the lead-acting awards. It is ranked 140th on Empire magazine's "The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time" list.[2]
Plot
Misanthropic New York City best-selling romance novelist Melvin Udall has obsessive–compulsive disorder (
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