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As Good as It Gets (1997): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB

7.7IMDb
86%Tomatometer
67Metacritic
7.4TMDB

As Good as It Gets is a 1997 drama, comedy, romance film directed by James L. Brooks. It scores 7.7 on IMDb, 86% on Rotten Tomatoes, 67 on Metacritic, 7.4 on TMDB. Audiences and critics disagree: scaled to 100, IMDb users give it 77 while Metacritic critics give it 67, a gap of 10 points in favor of audiences. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 10 of 96 films from 1997 in our catalog and number 200 of 3,051 comedy films.

Billed cast: Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear, Cuba Gooding Jr., Shirley Knight, Jesse James.

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