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About Schmidt

2002

Alexander Payne

Jack Nicholson, Dermot Mulroney, Hope Davis, Kathy Bates ...

6.4

21,199

Drama. Comedy Warren Schmidt has led a safe, predictable life working in the insurance industry in Omaha, Nebr. for many years, yet now faces retirement. At the same time he is forced to take a hard look at his wife, his life and his relationship with his estranged daughter. An often hilarious series of events follow as Schmidt embarks on an unpredictable RV journey to attend his daughter's wedding in Denver.

	Media	Author	Review
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"What is extraordinary about Payne’s film is the way it combines the most deliciously extreme and nihilist black comedy with forthright sentimentality"
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"[Nicholson] delivers a monumental performance that blasts your expectations and batters your heart (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"
		Michael Rechtshaffen The Hollywood Reporter	"While the film (...) is quite remarkable on its own considerable merits, it's a commanding Jack Nicholson lead performance that puts it into a sublime league of its own"
		Mike Clark USA Today	"[A] deliberately slow-paced but insightfully moving portrait of a life's third act (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"
		Manohla Dargis Los Angeles Times	"Perfectly pitched between comedy and tragedy, hope and despair, About Schmidt instead comes far closer than many movies to expressing the way many of us live"
		Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly	"The power of this great movie — part comedy, part tragedy, part satire, mostly masterpiece — is in the details (...) one of the best films of the year"

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