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Titre original : As Good as It Gets

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Romantic Comedy Comedy Drama Romance

Une mère célibataire et serveuse, un auteur misanthrope et un artiste gay forment une amitié inhabituelle après une agression lors d'un cambriolage.Une mère célibataire et serveuse, un auteur misanthrope et un artiste gay forment une amitié inhabituelle après une agression lors d'un cambriolage.Une mère célibataire et serveuse, un auteur misanthrope et un artiste gay forment une amitié inhabituelle après une agression lors d'un cambriolage.

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- James L. Brooks
Scénario
- Mark Andrus
- James L. Brooks
Casting principal

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Réalisation
- James L. Brooks
Scénario
- Mark Andrus
- James L. Brooks
Casting principal

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Récompensé par 2 Oscars
- 38 victoires et 54 nominations au total

Anecdotes
In one scene the dog starts mimicking Jack Nicholson by stepping over the cracks in the sidewalk. The filmmakers accomplished this by placing little obstacles on the cracks so that the dog had to step over them. They then removed the obstacles digitally in post-production.

Gaffes
When Simon is in the hotel in Baltimore, he rips his cast between the thumb and index finger. Upon the return to New York, when Carol is exiting the car, the cast is clearly and repeatedly seen to be intact.

Citations
Melvin Udall: Now, I got a real great compliment for you, and it's true.
Carol Connelly: I'm so afraid you're about to say something awful.
Melvin Udall: Don't be pessimistic, it's not your style. Okay. Here I go. Clearly a mistake.
[shifts in his seat uncomfortably]
Melvin Udall: I've got this, what, ailment? My doctor, a shrink that I used to go to all the time, he says that in fifty or sixty percent of the cases, a pill really helps. I hate pills. Very dangerous thing, pills. Hate. I'm using the word "hate" here, about pills. Hate. My compliment is, that night when you came over and told me that you would never... all right, well, you were there, you know what you said. Well, my compliment to you is, the next morning, I started taking the pills.
Carol Connelly: I don't quite get how that's a compliment for me.
Melvin Udall: You make me want to be a better man.
[pause]
Carol Connelly: [stunned] That's maybe the best compliment of my life.
Melvin Udall: Well, maybe I overshot a little, because I was aiming at just enough to keep you from walking out.

Crédits fous
Just after the disclaimer of the American Humane Association (The animals used in this film were in no way mistreated...) there is a second disclaimer stating "The actors used in this film were in no way mistreated."

Connexions
Edited into Doggiewoggiez! Poochiewoochiez! (2012)

Bandes originales
Temple (Sanctuary Mix)
Written and Performed by Jane Siberry
Courtesy of Reprise Records
By Arrangement with Warner Special Products

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8/10

One of my favorites but seemingly forgotten...

... which is rather strange since it is one of only seven films to win both Best Actor and Best Actress Oscars for its leads. But it is rather quirky and offbeat with unusual subject matter for a romantic comedy.

Melvin Udall (Jack Nicholson) is a misanthropic and obsessive-compulsive novelist living in New York City. He is abrasive and self absorbed past the point that being OCD could just explain it, or even being misanthropic. He goes out of his way to insult his neighbor, Simon Bishop (Greg Kinnear), a gay artist. And he also throws Simon's dog down the building's garbage chute. I'm a misanthrope, but I don't go around hurling slurs at people or hurting animals.

Among Melvin's compulsions is eating breakfast at a specific diner with a specific waitress, Carol Connely (Helen Hunt). Carol knows how to serve breakfast the specific way that will keep Melvin from having a conniption fit. But Carol's only son has a complicated allergy/asthma situation that her HMO doctors either aren't competent to diagnose or don't have the time to dedicate to solving it, so she's been missing work when her son is ill.

At the same time Simon is looking for subjects to pose for him when he sculpts, and he hires a model who turns out to have violent criminal tendencies and badly injures him.

These events all work to draw these three people together in a most interesting way, and they each wind up helping each other with their problems in unexpected ways.

The film's portrayal of New York City is as vibrant as its characters. The cinematography captures the energy and charm of the city, immersing viewers in its unique atmosphere and acts as a snapshot of New York City as it existed in the late 90s when it was going through a bit of a renaissance.

Special kudos to Cuba Gooding Jr. As Simon's agent who knows how to deal with Melvin by going into scary threatening mode. And also to Simon's dog, who winds up being a catalyst for change in Melvin. The dog should at least have gotten a supporting actor nomination.