About Schmidt
starring: Jack Nicholson, Hope Davis, Dermot Mulroney, Kathy Bates, June Squibb
directed by: Alexander Payne
directed by: Alexander Payne
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780780642713
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0780642716
Label: New Line Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: New Line Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: New Line Home Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 03, 2003
Running Time: 125 minutes
Sales Rank: 6537
Studio: New Line Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: December 20, 2002
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Editorial Review:
Description:
Warren Schmidt (Nicholson) is about to taste a not so sweet slice of life. When he retired, he and his wife Helen had big plans, but an unexpected twist changed everything. Now, all of Schmidt's attention is focused his daughter's upcoming wedding to a loser waterbed salesman. From meeting hippie parents to sponsoring a Tanzanian foster child, Schmidt embarks on a search for answers...and discovers that life is full of trick questions.
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Theatrical Trailer:Deleted Scenes - 9 scenes Woodmen Sequences Theatrical Trailer - 16X9 Widescreen More theatrical trailers from New Line: Unconditional Love I Am Sam Link to Original Website Childreach.org link
Amazon.com:
While confirming Jack Nicholson's status as an American national treasure, About Schmidt is sure to provoke polarized reactions. Stoked by the success of Election, director Alexander Payne and cowriter Jim Taylor have altered Louis Begley's novel to suit their comedic agenda, turning Nicholson's titular character into a 66-year-old, newly retired Omaha insurance actuary, weary from decades of drudgery and passionless marriage. When his wife suddenly dies, he attempts to reclaim his life in a king-sized Winnebago, desperate to convince his daughter (Hope Davis) not to marry the Denver dimwit (Dermot Mulroney) whose mother (Kathy Bates) has her own baggage of peculiar peccadilloes. Nicholson perfectly (and often hilariously) nails the seething anger beneath his character's façade of resignation, but Payne and Taylor convey cold-hearted contempt for these Midwestern malcontents. Think of this as Ikiru with bleaker humanity, until Schmidt finds meaning--and some small reward--in a quiet gesture of goodwill. Love it or hate it, About Schmidt is a movie you won't soon forget. --Jeff Shannon
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- About a sad and lonely manThat's the way it is for many modern men in Warren Schmidt's position. He has just retired, his wife ... Read More
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- Neo-Existentialism made accessibleThis was a good movie. It is entirely appropriate that it ended without a resolution, as this is what ... Read More
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- Brilliant acting, black humor, hard truths.Nicholson nails this character, a man whose life is quite commonplace. He has done his duty. He has ... Read More
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- Bursting the bubble on the American dream, and finding it's not so bad. An old man walks into a dark, inert house and stands over his desk as if wondering what he will do next. ... Read More
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- Please choose a different product. Leave now while you still can.Dull, absolutely dull.
The plot is stagnant, and this movie is truly a fall of a likable actor.
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