I think it's a film of two halves, the first culminating when the sympathetic doctor Harold Ramis steals the film. Thereafter the dog disappears, there's a road trip and misunderstandings, and it loses something.
It actually is not that convincingly written in places. Nice ending though. Well, not the ending. The bit where jack's made up a room for Greg:
Jack Nicholson (third Oscar), Cuba Gooding Jr., Greg Kinnear, Shirley Knight and Jill (the dog) are great; Helen Hunt seemed to me all actory mannerisms, and she's so brittle you never feel she's worthy of attraction - bizarrely, she also won an Oscar (the film picked up no BAFTA nominations at all - year of The Full Monty, Mrs. Brown and LA Confidential).
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