Movies/Scenes Representing Good
Samaritan
- As Good
As It Gets (1997)
- It seems to me that the relationships that develop amongst the characters in "As Good As It Gets" fit the Good Sam story wonderfully. Nicholson's character is firmly established as reprehensible in every way (the Samaritan of their world). He comes upon a couple of people-the gay neighbor beaten half to death and the ill child of a waitress who does not even begin to have the resources to reach the doctors whose expertise might change her child's world-and he responds. He provides the doctor for the child; he takes the beaten man into his own home. He cares. And the world of those touched is changed. Even as he (Nicholson) is still seen as lacking in so many ways. (Joe Piercey)
