Warren Schmidt (Jack Nicholson) has led a safe, predictable life working in the insurance industry in Omaha, Nebraska for many years, yet now faces retirement. At the same time, he is forced to ...

Kathy Bates is a nonstop pleasure as Randall’s full-bodied mom ... Nicholson’s acting sets a new gold standard, making Schmidt a movie you won’t forget.

By Michael Rechtshaffen On Dec. 13, 2002, New Line unveiled Alexander Payne’s drama About Schmidt in limited release ... arrived at this point in a career full of great performances.

I saw About Schmidt on a Saturday night in a theater full of young people out for a weekend of fun. It was instructive to watch how absorbed the entire theater became by this unlikely road movie ...

Directed by Alexander Payne. (R. 120 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) "About Schmidt" is the movie that dares to say it's all a lie, that the truisms that movies and mass culture live by are ...

The film adaptation of his drawing-room satire "About Schmidt," which had been optioned for the movies not long after its publication, in 1996, was actually getting made. This was all the more ...

A recently retired man embarks on a journey to his estranged daughter's wedding, only to discover more about himself and life than he ever expected.

It's a film that bakes a cake full of bile ... that's partly what the movie is about, a man trying not to explode - but he's an actor who exudes superiority. Schmidt should be partly vulnerable ...