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As Good As It Gets

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Considering Rita does not speak in the entire film she says so much through her eyes and facial expressions. Oliver Is his usual brilliant self. An absolute gem of a movie with some of the best scenery in cinematic history.

I've never been particularly enamoured of either Oliver Reed or Rita Tushingham but both are beyond excellent in this vaguely unclassifiable yarn in which Reed makes a living as a fur trapper but could probably earn a similar amount peddling excess testosterone and Tushingham spends 60 % of her screen time looking cute. The plot of sorts has Reed visiting a trading-post after two or three winters in the wild, claims the money he left with a store owner for safe keeping and is persuaded by the store-owner's wife to 'buy' the mute Tushingham (she hasn't spoken since she witnessed the massacre of her family by indians) as a wife-cum-slave for exactly the same amount of cash her husband has just handed over. From this point - about two reels in - all that is left is to show the couple growing closer until they eventually bond. That's all there is but it's more than enough and I'd happily watch it again.

Almost shockingly, many of the reviewers here have voiced stories almost eerily similar to my own. I happened upon this movie one late night approx. 38 years ago, and simply NEVER forgot it. Around 10 years ago or so, I searched for and found a VHS tape of it, and a couple of years ago, I got a DVD of it online. This is, simply, one of my very most favorite movies ever. I wanted to note that, as of this morning at any rate, the ENTIRE film is available for streaming on you tube.I don't wish to repeat the same specific comments voiced by others, but would like to focus on one particular aspect of the film; its patient and tender depiction of the "falling in love" process itself. The lazy and impatient manner through which most modern films depict how people fall in love strains credibility, and poses a real challenge to the viewer's ability to care about the supposedly deeply intense love relationship between the characters. How often do we see two characters "lock eyes" for a few extra moments upon meeting, and voilà, they are committed to a passionate and lifelong love relationship; ready to die for each other? All too often is my answer. In this film, you believe it. Their need for each other, though for perhaps somewhat different reasons, is palpable and honest. Today, "love stories" focus so much more on how characters REMAIN in love, or how they overcome hurdles to their love, and hardly bother to take on the challenge of making the audience believe that they ever fell in love in the first place, which is, for me, far more interesting (and apparently, far more difficult to depict believably).I think of the modern films noted for their love story narratives, like "The Fault in Our Stars". Of course the two protagonists fell in love. They're both impossibly attractive, they share this common enemy (cancer), and they're both incredibly clever and lovable. Even though their love was not expressed mutually until near the end, really they were in love (again) almost from the first moment they laid eyes on each other. Far more interesting would have been a story where she and the kid who eventually lost his eyesight fell in love, and the events leading up to that. But, again, that would have been likewise far more challenging to the author / screenwriter.But, no such problem with this film. They took on this difficult challenge and succeeded in an extremely satisfying way.

This is probably one of the best films Oliver Reed has been involved in. It suited his sultry and bad tempered mood on and off screen!. It has been released in the UK on VHS on the Rank Label by Carlton Home Entertainment but not on DVD anywhere as far as i know. The UK Video being 102 Mins in duration. quite a hard title to find cheaply but worth the effort if just for the Wolf scene near the end of the picture!. plot: British trapper Oliver Reed arrives at a trading post in 1850's British Columbia to sell furs and buy a wife (why!). He purchases mute orphan girl Rita Tushingham and drags the panic-stricken girl to his log cabin against her will. However a strange relationship ensues when she saves Oliver Reeds life. Dir Sidney Hayer's..