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
The Cat Creeps prints or negatives of "The Cat Creeps" are known to exist, only some stills and the soundtrack. A few clips do survive in a short film produced by Universal entitled "Boo!" (1932). The Cat Creeps The Cat Creeps is a 1930 American pre-Code crime/mystery film, and a sound remake of "The Cat and the Canary" (1927). Starring Helen Twelvetrees, Raymond Hackett, Neil Hamilton, Lilyan Tashman, Jean Hersholt, Elizabeth Patterson, and Montagu Love, it is considered to be a lost film. A Spanish-language version, "La Voluntad del muerto", starring Lupita Tovar and directed by George Melford, was filmed by Universal Pictures