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Mar 21, 2003 · About Schmidt ‘s crowning achievement is to create a truly affecting blend of two disparate tones: humor and pathos. Despite its grave themes, this is a film of non-stop, painful hilarity.
- Girish Shambu
"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.
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.
Jan 3, 2003 · As with "Election", director/co-writer Alexander Payne astutely dissects the life of a dissatisfied American male, satirising both conservative and pseudo-alternative...
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.
"About Schmidt" is a hostility-provoking film for the same reason that American citizens have lost their civil rights.
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Jan 21, 2011 · Adapting to the screen the novel by Louis Begley and an earlier draft of Alexander Payne called “The Coward,” Payne and his reliable co-writer Jim Taylor have completely reworked the source material, eliminating (among other things) the protagonist’s anti-Semitic tendencies.
