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   About Schmidt is a 2002 American comedy-drama film co-written and directed by Alexander Payne and starring Jack Nicholson in the title role. The film also stars Hope Davis, Dermot Mulroney, and Kathy Bates. It is loosely based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Louis Begley.

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     About Schmidt review – a tender, acrid, comic masterpiece

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3. www.rogerebert.com › reviews › about-schmidt-2002About Schmidt movie review & film summary (2002) - Roger Ebert

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   Dec 20, 2002 · “About Schmidt” is essentially a portrait of a man without qualities, baffled by the emotions and needs of others. That Jack Nicholson makes this man so watchable is a tribute not only to his craft, but to his legend: Jack is so unlike Schmidt that his performance generates a certain awe.

4. www.sensesofcinema.com › about_schmidtAbout Schmidt: Is That All There Is? – Senses of Cinema

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   Mar 21, 2003 · Payne and his co-writer Jim Taylor melded two sources to arrive at the screenplay for the film, the Louis Begley novel About Schmidt (which concerns a recently retired Manhattan lawyer taking a cross-country trip in his Saab to stop his daughter’s wedding) and an unproduced early Payne script called “The Coward”. Tellingly, there is a ...

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5. www.goodreads.com › book › showAbout Schmidt (Schmidt, #1) by Louis Begley | Goodreads

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   Sep 3, 1996 · Louis Begley’s novel, About Schmidt, tells the story of Albert Schmidt after his wife Mary died and before his daughter, Charlotte, goes through with her plan to marry a former colleague of Schmidt in a prestigious NY law firm . . . and a Jew, imagine that.

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6. www.bbc.co.uk › films › 2003/01/03BBC - Films - review - About Schmidt

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   Jan 3, 2003 · About Schmidt (2003) Jack Nicholson is like oxygen: easy to take for granted. With his trademark grin, lupine air and irrepressible rebelliousness, he is an icon whose talent is too often ...

7. www.imdb.com › title › tt0257360About Schmidt (2002) - Plot - IMDb

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   Summaries. Newly retired from the insurance industry, Omaha native Warren Schmidt embarks on an RV journey to his estranged daughter Jeannie's wedding in Denver Colorado, only to discover more about himself and life than he ever expected.

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   Is about Schmidt based on a true story?

   • About Schmidt is a 2002 American comedy-drama film co-written and directed by Alexander Payne and starring Jack Nicholson in the title role. The film also stars Hope Davis, Dermot Mulroney, and Kathy Bates. It is loosely based on the 1996 novel by Louis Begley.

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   What is about Schmidt about?

   • (2) About Schmidt opens with a striking montage of a grey and drab downtown evening. Shots of unexceptional buildings, both tall and small, are captured from various vantage points. Somewhere in each image is Schmidt’s Woodmen Of The World insurance company office building.

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   Is about Schmidt a comedy?

   • “About Schmidt” is billed as a comedy. It is funny to the degree that Nicholson is funny playing Schmidt, and funny in terms of some of his adventures, but at bottom it is tragic. In a mobile home camp, Schmidt is told by a woman who hardly knows him, “I see inside of you a sad man.”

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   What is Alexander Payne's script to About Schmidt about?

   • Alexander Payne's script to About Schmidt was initially an original screenplay written years before Louis Begley's novel was published. According to Payne, his script was about "an old guy who retires, and realizes how much he’s wasted his life, and wants somehow to start anew— The Graduate at age sixty-five."

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   What did Roger Ebert say about Schmidt?

   • Roger Ebert gave About Schmidt three-and-a-half out of four stars and wrote the following for the Chicago Sun-Times: About Schmidt "is essentially a portrait of a man without qualities, baffled by the emotions and needs of others.

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   Is Schmidt a good character?

   • And Schmidt is a magnificent character. We join him clockwatching in an empty office, as the seconds tick away on his last day in the "insurance game". A buttoned-down drone who once dreamed of entrepreneurial glory, he's irritated by his condescending replacement and can't bear staying at home with his prissy wife.

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9. www.empireonline.com › movies › reviewsAbout Schmidt Review | Movie - Empire

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   Jan 1, 2000 · About Schmidt. In the year Jack Nicholson turned 65, while the tabloids still persist in focusing on his Lothario ways, this thoughtful, understated black comedy proves there's more to him...