“Perfectly pitched between comedy and tragedy, hope and despair, About Schmidt instead comes far closer than many movies to expressing the way many of us live — someplace between consuming self-absorption and insistently demanding otherness.”
Jack Nicholson is cast against type as the titular Warren Schmidt: newly retired from the insurance industry and recently widowed from his wife, living a life of quiet desperation in Omaha, Nebraska. Faced with the prospect of an uncertain future, he sets out on an RV to attend the marriage of his estranged daughter () in Denver, Colorado... About Schmidt is a quietly powerful, bittersweet exploration of life, ageing and the search for meaning, and Nicholson’s sublimely understated performance saw him nomintated for an Oscar and won him a Golden Globe.