Because the writing is brilliant and each of the main performers is up to the task. This is from one of the many scenes that have stuck with me.
Carol Connelly: We all have these terrible stories to get over, and you...
Melvin Udall: It's not true. Some of us have great stories, pretty stories that take place at lakes with boats and friends and noodle salad. Just no one in this car. But a lot of people, that's their story. Good times, noodle salad. What makes it so hard is not that you had it bad, but that you're that pissed that so many others had it good.
[pause]
Carol Connelly: No. I don't think so.
Simon Bishop:
Not it at all, really.
Melvin Udall: "Not it at all," huh? OK.
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