Based on co-director and screenwriter Neal Jimenez's own experiences, this powerful, off-handedly funny story stars Eric Stoltz as a talented writer whose life is shattered when a hiking accident leaves him paralyzed. His rehabilitation takes place in an L.A. clinic where he befriends a biker (William Forsythe) and a hard-living black man (Wesley Snipes). With Helen Hunt. 106 min.

Best Actor and Actress Academy Awards went to Jack Nicholson as a curmudgeonly, psychologically obsessed New York author and Helen Hunt as the caring waitress and single mother who helps draw him out of his successful but isolated existence in writer/director James L. Brooks' acclaimed seriocomedy. With Greg Kinnear as Nicholson's gay neighbor, Shirley Knight and Cuba Gooding 139 min.