[Movie Script]As Good As It Gets

	AS GOOD AS IT GETSAS GOOD AS IT GETS


by
Mard Andrus
And
James L. Brooks
Story by
Mark Andrus
	FADE IN:



	INT. APARTMENT BUILDING (NEW YORK), HALLWAY - NIGHT



ANGLE ON apartment doorway. As it opens and an

enormously SWEET-FACED, ELDER WOMAN steps out, bungled up

against the cold -- turning back to call inside to the

unseen love of her long life.
			SWEET-FACED WOMAN

		I'm just going to get some

flowers, dear. I'll be back in

twenty minutes. It's tulip season

today. I'm so happy.
And now she turns and faces the hallway... her sweetness

dissolves in a flash... replaced by repulsion and that

quickly she has reversed herself and re-entered her

apartment... closing the door as we consider her vacated.
	POV - MELVIN UDALL


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