As Good As It Gets (1997)

Great! Movies, 9pm ★★★★

Jack Nicholson hops through the streets of Manhattan, trying to avoid cracks in the sidewalk in this James L Brooks-directed comedy. Nicholson plays the obsessivecompulsive novelist Melvin Udall, who befriends his gay neighbour (Greg Kinnear) and falls in love with a waitress (Helen Hunt) at a diner, all the while trying to stay true to his character as a reclusive brute of a man.