Mother (1996)
Directed by Albert Brooks
A neurotic, twice-divorced sci-fi writer moves back in with his mother to solve his personal problems.
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Like last year's "Mother" by Albert Brooks, "As Good as It Gets" is both funny and poignant, sarcastic and tender.
Having a back story implies that achieving peace of mind entails coming to terms with one's past, as Simon eventually does--the therapeutic model for dealing with neurosis in most conventional Freudian or post-Freudian Hollywood movies, from Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound to Albert Brooks's Mother.