The theatrical trailer says to plug this movie "Why is it the people we can't live with, are the people we can't live without." How true, the first time you see this movie, what with Jack's hatred of pretty much everyone and thing, Helen Hunt's general dislike of Jack, even though she thinks he somewhat cute.

The only one that seems to love anyone one is the dog, but he does steal the show, but it is a good race between him and some of the lines Jack shouts out along the way. Now I won't beat around the bush some of it is rather racist. The story revolves around Melvin Udall (Jack Nicholson) a obsessive-compulsive romance novelist, who hates germs, little animals, kids, blacks and pretty much anything else in the world. 

The only steady constant for him is Carol (Helen Hunt) a waitress at his local restaurant who he is in love with. After his gay neighbor Simon (Greg Kinnear) is badly beaten by a couple of low-life scumbag robbers, Simon's dog is dumped into Melvin's care, now after seeing how Melvin treated the dog in the opening credits, you think it's curtains for the dog. Well you would be forgiven, the dog actually changes his life forever and helps him mellow down and he slowly becomes more accepting to people, and closer to Carol along the way.

As Good As It Gets is framed at 1:85:1 and is 16:9 enhanced.

This is a dual sided, dual layer disc with the layer change occurring at the 66 minute mark.