About Schmidt (Blu-ray) R
Schmidt Happens.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 5 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 3, 2015
- Originally Released: 2002
- Label: New Line Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jack Nicholson, Kathy Bates, Hope Davis & Dermot Mulroney | |
Performer: | Howard Hesseman, Len Cariou & June Squibb | |
Directed by | Alexander Payne | |
Edited by | Kevin Tent | |
Screenwriting by | Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor | |
Composition by | Rolfe Kent | |
Produced by | Harry Gittes & Michael Besman | |
Director of Photography: | James Glennon | |
Executive Production by | Bill Badalato & Rachael Horovitz |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
Heartfelt Nicholson, not for kids at all.
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Common Sense Media
...The film is a gutsy, truthful, deeply rooted vision of contemporary American life, scaled to the size of an ordinary man....Payne has become the most gifted comic social satirist to hit our movies since Preston Sturges...
Los Angeles Times
Rating: 3/5 --
Mostly, the satire here amounts to nudging us into feeling superior to other people's lives.
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eFilmCritic.com
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.
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L.A. Weekly
...Payne elicits one of Nicholson's finest autumn-years performances in this excellent black comedy...
Total Film
Rating: D --
"About Schmidt" is a hostility-provoking film for the same reason that American citizens have lost their civil rights. The picture endorses, nay lionizes, complacency, inaction and the privilege of the greedy to steal whatever they covet simply because th
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ColeSmithey.com
[Y]ou laugh with a growing sense of dread because it makes you feel what it's like to realize it's too late to help yourself.
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Blogcritics.org
Product Description:
In Alexander Payne's ABOUT SCHMIDT, Warren Schmidt (Jack Nicholson) is retiring from a long, dedicated tenure at Woodmen of the World Insurance Company. Though he is proud of this achievement, he finds some difficulty adjusting to life without work. To make matters worse, his loving wife Helen (June Squibb) passes away, leaving him all alone. He turns to his daughter, Jeannie (Hope Davis), for support, but she is busy planning her marriage to Randall (Dermot Mulroney), who Warren just can't stand. He decides to sponsor a Tanzanian child, Ndugu, through a program advertised on television, and sends elaborate letters to the 6-year-old boy along with his $22 monthly checks. Meanwhile, he sets off on a soul-searching voyage across the west in his new RV.
Nicholson's deadpan voice-over narration, especially in his letters to Ndugu, give ABOUT SCHMIDT a solid balance between comedy and drama. The crux of the film is the daughter's wedding in Denver, where Warren is the guest of Randall's outrageous, new-agey mom (Kathy Bates). Though the funny moments make light of Warren's state in life, the overall feel of the film is a bit sad, and its enigmatic ending will keep viewers guessing what will happen to this uniquely knowable character.
Nicholson's deadpan voice-over narration, especially in his letters to Ndugu, give ABOUT SCHMIDT a solid balance between comedy and drama. The crux of the film is the daughter's wedding in Denver, where Warren is the guest of Randall's outrageous, new-agey mom (Kathy Bates). Though the funny moments make light of Warren's state in life, the overall feel of the film is a bit sad, and its enigmatic ending will keep viewers guessing what will happen to this uniquely knowable character.
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