Hi to everybody...there's a film hubby and I have watched about four times now and it is never boring seeing it again....it's called 'As good as it gets' and stars Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt and Greg Kinnear as the main characters in it. The performances of everybody in the film are wonderful and we both think that it's probably one of the best films Jack Nicholson ever made.
It's a love story, but don't let that put you off...it's incredibly funny, very sad, incredibly quirky and in one part horrific. It sends you through a roller coaster of emotions as you travel with the characters. Jack Nicholson plays a grouchy, rude and obstreperous guy with a compulsive behaviour disorder who is served regularly in a restaurant by Helen Hunt upon whom he relies to give him his breakfast in particular...gradually he gets drawn into her life and that of his neighbour, Greg Kinnear, playing a gay artist, and who gives a superb performance, along with Helen Hunt as the frought, frustrated mother of an asthmatic and constantly sick son about whom her life revolves with the help of her mother played by Shirley Knight, who is also very good...Cuba Gooding Jnr plays a supporting role as the art agent of Greg Kinnear and is hilarious.
If you want to see a beautifully crafted film, we both recommend this one as a must see...Hope you do get a chance to see it...it's currently showing on Screen 1 on Sky Movies but not sure whether it's on every night...check it and see, if you do have this facility...you won't regret it...

Hi to everybody...there was a film on earlier during the week that I recorded and I've just watched it tonight...'The Children of Huang Shi' directed by Roger Spottiswood and starring
Jonathan Rhys Meyers as George Hogg, Radha Mitchell as Lee Pearson and Yun-Fat Chow as Chen Hansheng. It's an epic story about George Hogg, a young green journalist, son of a pacifist father, who goes to China to cover the Japanese invasion of it and sees for himself the atrocities committed in Nanjing. He meets Lee Pearson, a self trained nurse and totally committed to the Chinese people, and Chen Hansheng, a West Point educated Chinese man who is in the resistance movement. Hansheng rescues Hogg when he's about to be executed by the Japanese. He gets wounded while with him and Lee nurses him back to health, Hansheng sends him to a safer place where he finds a school with orphan boys running wild with nobody to care for them. He takes them under his wing reluctantly then comes to love them...I won't tell you any more except to say that it is a very well crafted film, holds your attention all the time, and there are some gruelling moments in it as well...well worth a viewing. It has been on Sky Movies so may well be on again, but worth getting a DVD out if you're in a film club...also, more importantly, it's a true story, which makes it all the more amazing...