About Schmidt | Jack Nicholson, Hope Davis | About Schmidt is About Real Life

About Schmidt | Jack Nicholson, Hope Davis | I love Jack N.

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About Schmidt

	About Schmidt Jack Nicholson, Hope Davis New Line Home Entertainment, 2003 average customer review:based on 355 reviews view larger image
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About Schmidt is About Real Life

About Schmidt is one of the most profound movies I've seen, and I write this review to share what I see as the central point of this movie. If you watched this movie and thought it was just an amusing story about a man going through the latter transitions of life, you've missed this deeper meaning.

When Schmidt, who is played perfectly by Jack Nicholson, retires, he finds out that his work has become obsolete to the point that neither he nor his work will be missed by his company.

When Schmidt's wife, with whom he has become frustrated, dies, he learns just how much she meant to him, how much he has taken her for granted, that he was oblivious to an affair that she had with his friend, and comes to realize how much he misses her.

When Schmidt realizes that his daughter is living her life completely outside of his expectations for her, he realizes that he was an absent father and that she does not need him.

Along the way, Schmidt donates to support little Ndugu. Although it is a small thing that he starts on an impulse, he comes to realize that what he has contributed for Ndugu is the one thing in his life that he has done with no expectation for return, and so has become the only thing that gives his life any lasting meaning.

Thus, Schmidt comes face-to-face with his regrets: that he took his wife for granted, that he did not take a more active role in raising his daughter, and that he has forsaken all for a job in a company that lost appreciation for him long ago.

This is a movie that everyone should watch - well, everyone that is secure in the knowledge that they are contributing something back to this world. And, once you have watched it from that frame of mind, show it to someone younger and explain it in a way that demonstrates Thomas Jefferson's principle that community and individuals are inextricable linked; that our individual lives and our communities (family, organization, village, city, country...) benefit when each individual contributes to the good of all. About Schmidt is an encouragement to make a difference in your life by being a warning that failure to do so will leave us empty during the time of our life when we will need most to know that we have made a difference.

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I love Jack N.

Love this movie because I love Jack but my husband thought it was stupid...lol

A Film about Desperation, Anger, Fear - but mostly about acting

A tragic-comic film and an incredible acting job from Jack Nicholson. This movie lets you have sympathy for characters other than Warren Schmidt, and indeed Nicholson's character is unlikable on several occasions. Some scenes are laugh out loud - when Warren dribbles urine all over his dead wife's bathroom in revenge for years of peeing sitting down, when Warren is fried on Percodan, when Warren is fighting a water bed and losing both the battle and his equilibrium ...

Once you have dropped into the seduction of this film and it's your two hour reality, you'll wonder - is he really mailing those letters to his foster child Ndugu? Highly recommended, but you may only watch this one once.

This review was also posted with Netflix.

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As Glum as it Gets

Seldom can a poor old stiff have been more savagely skewered than Mr Schmidt in this, to my mind, pointless film. Anyone who thinks it is funny has a funny sense of humour. So far as I could see, Schmidt is a dull, unimaginative, steady sort of type, who lacks vigour, has never done anything wrong, has worked in a tedious job to support his equally dull wife and pasty-faced daughter, and is rewarded by being made an object of mockery and derision. Actually, the story is really rather nasty and supercilious. Let us puncture the bourgeois, and have a good laugh as he disintegrates. The three stars are for Jack Nicholson, who is definitely a very good actor. He is also courageous, but I can't help thinking that here he would have done better to flee this role.

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