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Daily Review | About Schmidt [2002] Dir. Alexander PayneTrailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-dafG40eGUWatch: DVD baby!• LaRocca Films: http://laroccaon...
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Mar 28, 2008 · This three minute clip from About Schmitt shows the newly retired Schmitt revisiting his successor in his old office, anxious to impart his experience and wi...
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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.
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In this film, he convincingly plays a down-on-his-luck retiree who needs to adjust to several changes in his formerly mundane life. He's not nearly as psychotic and creepy as he is in most of his other films. He pulls off the understated, bored, and unsatisfied Schmidt really well.
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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.
