About Schmidt is not the kind of movie where you finish it and go "WOW! What a movie." However, I am not sure that those kind of movies are always the best. The reason most movies are successful at capturing us is that they get us to suspend our reality and become involved in someone elses. About Schmidt is certainly entertaining, but rather then pull you out of your reality it helps you to grapple with it. Warren R. Schmidt's (Jack Nicholson) is a charicter who is very real to life and deals with problems and struggles that all of us can identify with - loss, inadiquecy, things not going acording to your plans or desires. The movie doesn't necessarily have a happy ending, but one that does justice to the harshness of the themes. All in all, well worth seeing.
"About Schmidt" starring Jack Nicholson as the title character, a retired man looking back and trying to figure out just what has he accomplished in his life. He sets out to stop his daughter from marrying a man who Schmidt thinks isn't good enough for her. A nice, simple tale, with strong performances (especially Kathy Bates), a few good laughs, and some very emotional scenes. A terrific movie.
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