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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 · 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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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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"About Schmidt" is a hostility-provoking film for the same reason that American citizens have lost their civil rights. The picture endorses, nay lionizes, complacency, inaction and...
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.
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About Schmidt is a simple, melancholy story, carefully and deliberately told through the eyes of one man who wakes up to find that his life is devoid of meaning and begins to look for an answer.