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Release Date: Dec 13, 2002
Running Time: 125 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
starring:
Jack Nicholson, Hope Davis, Dermot Mulroney, Kathy Bates, James Crawley, Howard Hesseman, Len Cariou, Tung Ha, Cheryl Hamada, June Squibb
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Warren Schmidt is a retired insurance salesman, who at age 66, has no particular plans other than to drive around in the motor home his wife insisted they buy. He's not altogether bitter, but not happy either, as everything his wife does annoys him, and he disapproves of the man his daughter is about to marry. When his wife suddenly dies, he sets out to postpone the imminent marriage of his daughter to a man he doesn't like, while coping with discoveries about his late wife and himself in the process.
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November 20, 2002
Get this: Jack Nicholson -- still the epitome of cool at sixty-five -- starring as an unhip, unhappy Nebraska actuary in About Schmidt. There's no bad-boy DNA in Warren Schmidt. He's recently retired and stuck in Omaha with Helen (June Squibb), his dowdy wife of forty-two years: "Who is this old woman living in my house?" This is Nicholson without the devilish glint, without the raised eyebrow. It is also Nicholson at his bravest and riskiest. By banking his fires and staying alert to the…
When a man retires from his job and suddenly loses his wife shortly thereafter, he decides to drive his new motor home cross-country to stop his daughter's impending wedding. He learns a few things about himself along the way. Story About Schmidt is a curious slice of Americana. The film is really about ordinary Americans going about their everyday lives, but the characters are so clearly drawn and the dialogue so rich, you are immediately hooked. Somewhat reluctantly, 66-year-old Warren Schmidt…
June 4, 2003
Just what we've been waiting for: a really depressing movie about an old guy. But when the old guy is Jack Nicholson and the director is Alexander Payne (Election), you can throw your worries away. Nicholson plays a just-retired, just-widowed insurance executive Winnebago-ing across the Great Plains on a mission to stop his daughter from marrying a nitwit. Sure, he means well, but he's really just an emotionally closed-off asshole. And Nicholson plays shut-down and repressed just as vividly as…
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Director
Warren Schmidt
Jeannie Schmidt
Randall Hertzel
Roberta Hertzel
Dave Goberson
Larry Hertzel
Ray Nichols
Phil Choi
Saundra
Helen Schmidt
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