
Warren Schmidt (Jack Nicholson) has led a safe, predictable life working in the insurance industry in Omaha, Nebraska 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, Colorado.... (Full plot summary below)
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Warren Schmidt (Jack Nicholson) has led a safe, predictable life working in the insurance industry in Omaha, Nebraska 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, Colorado.
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| L.A. WeeklyJohn PowersThe bleakness and poignancy are inescapable in About Schmidt, a character study that has the emotional richness of the great Italian and Eastern European films of the 1960s, in which humor and pathos rode up and down on the seesaw together. |
| South Florida Sun-SentinelTodd AnthonyIt's a boring movie about a boring man, made watchable by a bravura performance from a consummate actor incapable of being boring. |
| Miami HeraldRene RodriguezEver the satirist, Payne mines humor from his characters, be it Randall's cockeyed pyramid-scheme ideas or the banality of a ridiculous wedding toast. |
| Hollywood ReporterMichael RechtshaffenIt's a commanding Jack Nicholson lead performance that puts it into a sublime league of its own. |
| Your Movies (cleveland.com)John Urbancich... an often funny, generally poignant and mostly realistic portrait of a common Joe, trying to come to terms with the holes left after a lifetime of hard work. |
| Juicy CerebellumAlex SandellIf you're into quality filmmaking, this should have you doing cartwheels in puddles of your own saliva. |
| Reno Gazette-JournalForrest HartmanThis is the best type of comedy. In the theater, the material is worthy of gut-busting laughs, but reflection reveals the serious underbelly. |
| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleA seriously good movie, a challenge to viewers, a rebuke of the way many Americans live their lives. |
| San Diego Union-TribuneDavid ElliottPayne has taken a giant of American acting and awakened a midget in him -- a miserable, grumpy bore who seems to deserve his pipsqueak destiny. |
| Houston ChronicleEric HarrisonThe film aims to be funny, uplifting and moving, sometimes all at once. The extent to which it succeeds is impressive. |