VINTAGE FILM As Good as It Gets

As Good as It Gets gives the lie to two prominent stereotypes about New Yorkers: That they never meet their neighbors, and that if they did they’d be just as rude as they are on the streets. Okay, they are a bit rude at first. But when circumstances put an aging neurotic writer (Nicholson), a struggling gay artist (Kinnear) and a single-mom waitress (Hunt) together in a Saab 900 convertible headed for Baltimore, their empathy grows as the Manhattan skyline fades into the distance.