As Good as It Gets 1997

Release date

12/19/1997

Directors

James L. Brooks

Writers

James L. Brooks

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

dog love romance gay friendship crazy apartment new york city waitress single parent restaurant lone wolf dogsitter road trip racist neighbor author obsessive compulsive disorder (ocd) single mother home invasion novelist art dealer rude obnoxious unlikely friendship hospitalization painter as artist generosity mother son relationship dog owner gay artist unexpected romance daily routine child with illness homophobic