About Schmidt (DVD)

Warren Schmidt has just retired and is finding his new life rather hard to adjust to when he is dealt another blow - his wife of 42 years suddenly drops dead. Daughter Jeannie comes to visit for a while, but she is about to get married to Randall, of whom her father deeply disapproves, and has to return home to carry on with the preparations. Warren finds himself completely lost with no-one to talk to about his wife except by letter to a young boy he has 'adopted' in Africa. He decides to go on a trip to 'find' himself. Will he be able to come to terms with his wife's death? And will Jeannie's marriage to Randall definitely go ahead? I think Jack Nicholson is ...  Read the complete review

This is Jack Nicholson’s movie. And yet it’s nothing like a Jack Nicholson movie, in many respects. OK, it’s a cross between "As good as it gets" (which Nicholson was in) and "American Beauty" (which he wasn’t in). He plays Warren Schmidt, a stick in the mud, who doesn’t really like his wife, to whom he’s been married 42 years (though she dotes on him) – he’s married to his job, then finds out when he retires, that his firm, an insurance company, didn’t rally respect him anyway. Kick in the teeth, and then there’s having to put up with your wife 24/7. His wife Helen is ...  Read the complete review

About Schmidt is a quality film which boasts a great cast in the form of the excellent Jack Nicholson alongside Kathy Bates. It is a rather morbid, dark comedy that is a really enjoyable film and one I have seen a couple of times now. Nicholson plays Warren Schmidt who has recently been widowed and is facing life in his retirement all alone, he leads a rather lonely existence and at times he is a rather cantakerous person who argues with his daughter over the right casket for his estranged wifes funeral. Floating through life he decides to adopt an African child and it is his letters to this child that forms the narration for the story as he travels ...  Read the complete review

About Schmidt starring Jack Nicholson is adapted from a novel. Director Alexander Payne(Sideways) writes the screenplay himself and presents us with a film that tries to unravel the meaning of life. About Schimdt is about Warren Schmidt,an old guy in his 60s who is recently divorced and later widowed. Schmidt finds himself lonely without his wife and the film is a take on how he takes on life,how he evaluates his past life and how he tries to explore life's meaning. I liked the basic premise of the film and I thought it would be a heartwarming experience to see Jack Nicholson in such a role. I liked the film in parts but I thought it went a bit out ...  Read the complete review

Films starring Jack Nicholson are a rare commodity of recent years, his most recent appearance being in 2001's The Pledge. So it's a welcome sight to see him back in dark comedy About Schmidt. Nicholson plays Warren Schmidt, a 60 something executive just starting his retirement after many years working for an insurance company. He's dissatisfied with life; hates the young hotshot who took his job; and is constantly irritated by his wife Jeannie's little habits. After her sudden death, he sets out on a journey to stop his daughter (Hope Davis) entering into a union with a waterbed salesman (Dermot Mulroney) who Schmidt doesn't think is worthy ...  Read the complete review