Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Don't listen to the negative reviews

As Good As It Gets

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Sorry for bad English. I saw that movie once, 10 year ago. "Armavir" - invented ship. It was similar story with real Russian ship "Admiral Nakhimov" - it sank 31 august 1986 near Novorossiysk (Black Sea). 423 people are dead. This movie not only about shipwreck, but about love father to daughter. About hope and despair, ...memory and oblivion, ...revenge and remorse. One shot of tragedy and father to rush via all Russia, to find and save child, adult child, but he will always protect her. One month after tragedy, and nobody want know about that. It is not Xmas story, it is real life. It is distressing sight, but it's necessary to begin to think. This story have not time and place, it is story about us.