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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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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 lionizes complacency, inaction, and the privilege of the greedy to steal whatever they covet simply because they are treacherous enough to do it.
"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...
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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Sep 10, 2012 · After retirement and his wife's sudden death, insurance salesman Warren Schmidt (Nicholson) feels his life, and all the bland assumptions that have sustained it, slipping away from him.
