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"About Schmidt" is a hostility-provoking film for the same reason that American citizens have lost their civil rights. The picture lionizes complacency, inaction, and the privilege of the greedy to steal whatever they covet simply because they are treacherous enough to do it.
Mar 21, 2003 · The exquisite ending of the film, in which Schmidt looks at Ndugu’s stick figure drawing of adult and child holding hands, offers him a glimpse of a redeemed life. If his existence has been worth anything, it is because of his role in the lives of two children, Jeannie and Ndugu.
- Girish Shambu
Jack Nicholson plays Warren Schmidt, a 66 year-old retired and widowed insurance man from Omaha. Warren drives his 35-foot Winnebago cross country to foil his daughter's upcoming wedding in this insultingly dim movie based on a novel by Louis Begley, and directed by Alexander Payne.
Apr 27, 2024 · So what is the film about? Warren Schmidt. He is 66 years old and much too quickly approaching 67 for his own liking. We begin the film in his drab grey office. His face is entirely empty,...
- Reece Beckett
May 22, 2002 · In a film where Schmidt is required to hold the screen alone for long stretches, his four confessional, comically inappropriate letters to the child give the viewer access to his inner thoughts...
Dec 20, 2002 · Here is a man who did not “plan for retirement.” “About Schmidt” has backed itself into a corner with its hero, who is so limited it would be torture to watch him for two hours, even played by Nicholson. The film puts Schmidt on the road, in a reversal of Nicholson’s youthful journey in “Easy Rider.” He and the film are in search ...
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Jan 3, 2003 · As ageing retiree Warren Schmidt, however, Nicholson reins in the Jackisms. He trades the slickback hair for a comb-over and transforms from legendary lothario into fragile old man.
