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by pmills1210  in Movies,  - Top 500, Feb 27 '03
Pros: Nicholson, Bates, Mulroney, Payne's direction and style
Cons: Life ends Warren's way for many a person
The time has come for Warren R. Schmidt to retire. After many years of working for the Woodmen Insurance Company in Omaha, he ends the work he has done quietly and efficiently. His friends and co-workers throw a farewell party for him, but he winds up...
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by mike.holmes in Movies, - Top 500, Jan 25 '03
Pros: Great acting, nice script and meaningful story
Cons: None
Something happened to me during "About Schmidt" that has never happened to me before while watching a movie. And, I've watched a lot of movies. Thousands. I want to return to "what happened to me" after a brief review of this excellent movie.
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by Pffrdfdus7 , Jan 14 '03
Pros: compelling
Cons: few
The blistering irony and torture of retirement seems (and if not, should be) more dreadfully anticipated with the onslaught of modern technology nowadays; the banality of diminutive details, the festering state of habitual absurdity, and the...
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by d_fienberg - Top 500, Dec 13 '02
Pros: Acting, direction, writing. The basics.
Cons: Pacing is a bit slow and the soundtrack is a problem
A funny thing happened to Jack Nicholson between his break-out role in 1969's Easy Rider and the present day: He grew old. Now, that shouldn't seem like such a strange thing, since logic dictates that Nicholson has aged 33 years since 1969, same...
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by flamepillar - Top 50, Feb 10 '03
Pros: Strikingly real performance by Jack Nicholson, and a strikingly real picture of the golden years.
Cons: Caution. Slow moving vehicle.
If you don't live in Florida and you're looking for a little warmth on an afternoon that remains in single digit temperature with sunshine, it might just be time for something a little different. Something warm. Something like About Schmidt....
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by emptywishes - Top 1000, Apr 03 '03
Pros: the concept (with the letters), the freaky mother-in-law-to-be
Cons: it was just missing that spark.
The concept of my retirement is still way out of reach for me at this point. After all, between twenty-two years old, it's a way off (plus I'm not really working these days anyway, so what would I retire from?). But already I find myself with too much...
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by lemon_lime - Top 1000, Jan 07 '03
Pros: Jack Nicholson first and foremost, but the entire cast shines, wonderful script and direction.
Cons: in this viewer's eyes, none.
By now you've no doubt heard that Jack Nicholson is amazing in Alexander Payne's latest - and greatest - film, About Schmidt. You've probably also heard that he's amazing because of how underwhelmingly he plays the role of Warren Schmidt, how he...
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by lyoness913, - Top 500, Jan 25 '03
Pros: The movie really makes you empathize, there is something eerily real about it.
Cons: Drags in places, sometimes on the verge of boring.
I left the movie theatre after seeing About Schmidt not really knowing how I felt. I guess the first thing that came to my mind was Jack Nicholson is really getting old. He went from being Helen Hunt's love interest to being...
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by remnjava - Top 500, Jan 20 '03
Pros: Great cast, Nicholson, Naughty Kathy Bates
Cons: Not much
What is a life all about? In one's life, one is always waiting for something. "I want to be old enough to go to school; I want to be old enough to drive; I want to be old enough to get married." If one gets old enough, the next logical milestone is to...
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by bwyckoff1 - Top 500, Jan 11 '03
Pros: Fantastic Story-Sharp Timing-Jack is all that
Cons: The Movie had no free popcorn
The film About Schmidt is a definite crisis in the making. It was a moving film about moving on. As one watches the ticking of the clock wind down on a man due to retire, so does the clock tick down on one’s life and all it has to offer.
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by CyndiA - Top 50, Jun 14 '03
Pros: Interesting story. Nicholson carries this slice-of-life.
Cons: This one will NOT appeal to many typical movie viewers.
What flashes before your eyes in those last minutes before you die? Heck, who knows the answer to th ...
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by mfunk75 - Top 500, Dec 23 '02
Pros: Messrs. Nicholson, McMurphy, Napier, and Hanson. (And Payne is pretty good, too)
Cons: Dermot Mulroney's haircut: business on top, party in the back
"About Schmidt" is the story of Mike Schmidt, the ex-Philadelphia Phillies third baseman. It details the ups and downs of the man's career, from his humble beginnings in Dayton, Ohio, to his days smacking the cover off the ball at Ohio University, to...
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by macresarf1 - Top 100, Jan 08 '03
Pros: Fine cast; locations in Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado; varied atmospheric score; a meditative funny-sad story.
Cons: Not for those failing to recognize they are targets of Life's satire, and its tragedy.
When you are driving across Nebraska's flatlands, Omaha suddenly looms up on the great plain. It is, or was when Warren Schmidt started there, the Insurance Capital of America, if not the World. Fields of crops and populations of individuals were...
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by naphtalia - Top 100, Feb 07 '03
Pros: tremendous acting
Cons: pacing at times felt off
My mother doesn't like to watch Jack Nicholson. She thinks he looks evil. This makes watching a Jack Nicholson movie with my mother in the vicinity a problem. The last two times I tried to watch Terms of Endearment, major scenes were interrupted...
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by bwanamdevu , Jun 05 '03
Pros: A Nicholson Masterclass!
Cons: It`s a Nicholson Masterclass!
We all know that man is a creature of habit. Most of us get set in our ways in routines that change from little from day-to-day.
Schmidt, wonderfully portrayed by Jack Nicholson, is a character that appears to have been stuck in routines for...
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