AS GOOD AS IT GETS

Best Actor and Actress Academy Awards went to Jack Nicholson, who portrays curmudgeonly, psychologically obsessed New York author Melvin Udall, and Helen Hunt, who co-stars as Carol Connelly, the caring waitress and single mother who helps draw him out of his successful but isolated existence. Writer/director James L. Brooks' acclaimed seriocomedy also stars Greg Kinnear, Shirley Knight, Skeet Ulrich, and Cuba Gooding, Jr. 139 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English. Region Free