As Good as It Gets positive review based on 77 reviews. Metacritic, a web site that evaluates films by averaging their overall critical response, gave the film a metascore of 67, signifying generally favorable reviews. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and was nominated for and received many film awards, including an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture and a Golden Globe award for Best Picture-Music or Comedy. 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
Tonight Starring Jack Paar Tonight Starring Jack Paar Tonight Starring Jack Paar (in later seasons The Jack Paar Tonight Show) is an American talk show hosted by Jack Paar under the "Tonight Show" franchise from 1957 to 1962. It originally aired during late-night. During most of its run it was broadcast from Studio 6B (formerly the home of Milton Berle's "Texaco Star Theater" series) inside the RCA Building (now called the Comcast Building) in New York City. The same studio would also host early episodes of "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson", "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" and "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon".