As Good as It Gets vs Millennium Actress
Millennium Actress has the higher audience score (7.8/10 against 7.4/10 for As Good as It Gets). Millennium Actress is the shorter watch at 1h 27m compared with 2h 19m. As Good as It Gets is the older of the two (1997 against 2002). Both are comedy, drama, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.
As Good as It Gets
Millennium Actress| As Good as It Gets | Millennium Actress | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.4/10 | ★ 7.8/10 |
| Year | 1997 | 2002 |
| Length | 2h 19m | 1h 27m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, Romance | Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | James L. Brooks | Satoshi Kon |
| Main cast | Greg Kinnear, Yeardley Smith, Cuba Gooding Jr., Helen Hunt, Skeet Ulrich | Fumiko Orikasa, Koichi Yamadera, Shozo Iizuka, Masaya Onosaka, Masane Tsukayama |
Synopsis
As Good as It Gets
Melvin Udall, a cranky, bigoted, obsessive-compulsive writer of romantic fiction, is rude to everyone he meets, including his gay neighbor, Simon. After Simon is brutally attacked and hospitalized, Melvin finds his life turned upside down when he has to look after Simon's dog. In addition, Carol, the only waitress at the local diner who will tolerate him, leaves work to care for her chronically ill son, making it impossible for Melvin to eat…
Millennium Actress
Documentary filmmaker Genya Tachibana has tracked down the legendary actress Chiyoko Fujiwara, who mysteriously vanished at the height of her career. When he presents her with a key she had lost and thought was gone forever, the filmmaker could not have imagined that it would not only unlock the long-held secrets of Chiyoko’s life... but also his own.
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