As Good as It Gets As Good as It Gets As Good as It Gets is a 1997 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by James L. Brooks. It stars Jack Nicholson as a misanthropic and obsessive-compulsive novelist, Helen Hunt as a single mother with a chronically ill son, and Greg Kinnear as a gay artist. The screenplay was written by Mark Andrus and Brooks. The paintings were created for the film by New York artist Billy Sullivan. Nicholson and Hunt won the Academy Award for Best Actor and Best Actress, respectively, making "As Good As It Gets" the most recent film to win both of
Echo (1997 film) his brother's idyllic life and begins to manipulate events. In a plot twist, he eventually succeeds by manipulating his brother's wife, Olivia (Alexandra Paul) to kill her legitimate husband, but Steven is killed instead. At the end of the film, Olivia is pregnant with Steven's child without her and Max knowing it. Echo (1997 film) Echo is a 1997 film directed by Charles Correll made for TV starring Jack Wagner and Alexandra Paul. The film was also known as "Deadly Echo" in Canada and the United Kingdom. Identical twins, Max and Steven Jordan (Jack Wagner), were separated at birth after