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Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 0794043631733 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC Label: New Line Home Entertainment Languages: Manufacturer: New Line Home Entertainment Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: New Line Home Entertainment Release Date: June 03, 2003 Running Time: 125 minutes Studio: New Line Home Entertainment Theatrical Release Date: December 20, 2002 Editorial Review: 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 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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Brilliant acting, black humor, hard truths.Nicholson nails this character, a man whose life is quite commonplace. He has done his duty. He has supported a wife and an only daughter. He is fussily punctilious about his job, and in that he takes some satisfaction. Then he retires and everything changes. One by one the elements of his self-image are destroyed. He is not important at his job. He returns to 'help' his replacement, and is brushed off. His daughter lives in another city. His wife, whose steadfastly cheerful manner ... Read More Rating:  - 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. His wife has died, his daughter married, and his job has given him the standard "gold watch" for his retirement and all but forced him out so younger blood can move in with vulture-like precision and take over. This is the life of Warren Schmidt, a tired, quiet and suppressed man who is discovering that his whole life has been little more than busy-work. Ultimately, he has discovered that nothing he ... Read More Rating:  - 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. Not sure how does jack nicholson go from being the joker (the only time the joker ever looked or acted like a real cool guy), to, well, this. This movie is about a depressing old man, his boring wife, boring children, and umm boring adopted son. this is literally the worst movie i've ever seen, that includes friends home made videos, and all of mystery science theater ... Read More Rating: - Five Easy Pieces for Your Bucket ListJack Nicholson is an authentic genius of acting. And there are some impressive bookends to his contributions to our culture (at least if you don't count the science fiction b/w movies he started out with). "Five Easy Pieces" depicts a young man's rebellion and struggle to achieve intimacy. A great trope of that movie was his "dualogue" with his demanding, artistic and remote father, who has been struck dumb by a disease. So Nicholson talks to his non-replying dad, pouring out his issues and trying ... Read More Rating: - Good motivation if you want to buy an RV.About Schmidt, DVD. I saw this movie a few years ago. I loved it. I bought it again for the RV scenes. Nicholson really make the motorhome "shine". I think this is better than the DVD "RV" with Robin Williams in it. |
