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DVD : About SchmidtIn association with Amazon.comstarring: Jack Nicholson, Hope Davis, Dermot Mulroney, Kathy Bates, June Squibb directed by: Alexander Payne  List Price: $9.98 Amazon.com's Price: $7.49 You Save: $2.49 (25%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD EAN: 9780780642713 Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 0780642716 Label: New Line Home Entertainment Manufacturer: New Line Home Entertainment Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: New Line Home Entertainment Region Code: 1 Release Date: June 03, 2003 Running Time: 125 minutes Studio: New Line Home Entertainment Theatrical Release Date: December 20, 2002 Sales Rank: 12679 MPN: TRNDN6319D Related Items:
Editorial Review: 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. DVD Features: DVD ROM Features Deleted Scenes Theatrical Trailer:Deleted Scenes - 9 scenes Woodmen Sequences Theatrical Trailer - 16X9 Widescreen More theatrical trailers from New Line: Unconditional Love I Am Sam Link to Original Website Childreach.org link 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 Average Rating:
 Rating:  - About a sad and lonely manThat's the way it is for many modern men in Warren Schmidt's position. He has just retired, his wife has died, and he finds himself lonely and not knowing what to do with himself or what his life has meant. Warren has a daughter he dotes on and she's about to marry a nice but goofy guy, so he travels to Denver in a Winnebago, having some adventures along the way. What holds this all together is his frequent letters to Ndugu, a small boy in Africa whom Warren has taken on as a foster child via ChildReach. ... Read More Rating:  - Neo-Existentialism made accessibleThis was a good movie. It is entirely appropriate that it ended without a resolution, as this is what existentialism essentially says: There is no point, so there is no resolution. The movie seemed a thematic mix of "Welcome to the Dollhouse" and "American Splendor." The characters bore resemblances of someone that we might know (Splendor) and the ending seemed to suggest "This may be as good as it gets" (Dollhouse). If you a willing participant in existential discourse, then this ... Read More 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 gets on ... 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 worked ... 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 3000 ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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