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.

When Schmidt walks down a hallway in a full body shot, or knocks at a door ... Hollywood has come to making a thoroughly non-Hollywood movie, but it can't quite break the mold.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

At the age of 66, Warren Schmidt (Nicholson) is a man unprepared to face life's ambiguities. As the movie opens, we see Schmidt alone in his office at Woodmen of the World insurance company in ...