incredible film, nicholson and hunt shine

Rating: 8/10 (25 April 2001)

This was a film that really pulled my emotions around. Nicholson delivers an incredible peformance as the nasty neighbour with obsessive compulsive disorder, and Helen Hunt atacks her role with a realism that is rarely seen. A genuinely funny and moving film, the outstanding script has just the right lines for the right moment. Jack Nicholson delivers his "Carol the waitresss, Simon the fag" so perfectly dead pan and matter of factly that i fell about laughing. the only niggle i had was that melvin udall never comes out and says clearly to the others that he is sick and can't quite help being the way he is. we are left to guess how much of his personality is controllable and how much better he really could be.