Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt
The age difference between the two leads, played by Jack Nicholson (then 60) and Helen Hunt (then 34), has been brought up as a point of contention in subsequent years; however, the film itself glosses over the issue and ignores it entirely. In the movie, Jack Nicholson plays a novelist who falls in love with the character played by Helen Hunt,
She is a waitress and a single mother; the fact that thirty years have passed since they first met is never brought up on the screen. On the other hand, both of them won Oscars for the roles that they played in the film. Perhaps the age gap doesn’t hinder on-screen chemistry, as evident by their astounding success.