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LOOKING BACK.('About Schmidt')('Russian Ark')(Movie Review)
The new Alexander Payne movie, "About Schmidt," is, when you get down to it, about Schmidt. In fact, it is all about Schmidt (Jack Nicholson). There is barely a scene in which, glazed with inertia, he does not swinishly loll. Our initial sight of Warren Schmidt finds him sitting in his office at an Omaha insurance company, as he has sat, more or less, for thirty-five years. (In Louis Begley's novel, of which mere traces remain, Schmidt was a Manhattan attorney.) Today is his last day in the business; from here on, he will find that, to his loved ones, as to the unloved hordes who constitute the rest of society, he has shrunk to a spent force.
Schmidt is married ...
- WARREN SCHMIDT A MODERN-DAY GEORGE BABBITT.(Editorial)(Column)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) January 16, 2003 700+ words
...1922) But today his name is Warren Schmidt. He is 66 now as he stolidly watches...frankness of their banality. "About Schmidt," the new Jack Nicholson movie...which is replicated in the cake at Schmidt's retirement party that evening...
- ALL ABOUT ``SCHMIDT'' AND BEING A MAIN STREET GUY.(DAILY BREAK)
- Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot January 5, 2003 700+ words
...VINCENT THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT WARREN Schmidt, the hero of the critically acclaimed...Why would you accept the role of Warren Schmidt? What did you see in the part...the nerve to speak up. What is Warren Schmidt's tragedy? Everything is systematically...
- Old cuckoo flies the nest in `About Schmidt'.(Scene)
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Verniere, James December 20, 2002 700+ words
...later, Nicholson is the eponymous Warren Schmidt, a plain, older man with a plain...blooming self-awareness. Warren Schmidt bears Nicholson's indelible...is funny and incisive, and Warren Schmidt, who finds grace in retirement...
- ``SCHMIDT'' IS NICHOLSON AT HIS BEST.(DAILY BREAK)(Review)
- Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot January 4, 2003 700+ words
...the life-affirming ``About Schmidt,'' he plays an ordinary man...typical roles. We first meet Warren Schmidt, 66, as he sits in an empty...for ``As Good as It Gets.'' Warren Schmidt, though, isn't likely to yell...
- Bull Schmidt. (Now Playing).(About Schmidt)(Movie Review)
- Magazine article from: The American Enterprise Larsen, Josh March 1, 2003 700+ words
...who live there. Nicholson's Warren Schmidt is a withered WASP full of buried...first group to pronounce About Schmidt the top film of the year was the...spent among men precisely like Warren Schmidt. "I was raised among them...
- 'About Schmidt' showcases Nicholson at flawed, wry best; DVD restores deleted...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times June 5, 2003 700+ words
...understatement to his role as Warren Schmidt, a newly retired, suddenly widowed...meaning in his humdrum life. Schmidt decides on a dubious mission to...cheated spending an evening with Warren Schmidt. The 'A' list In other fresh...
- 'About Schmidt' gets lost in Omaha.(LIFE)(MOVIES)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times December 20, 2002 700+ words
...But the film is not about Mr. Begley's Al Schmidt. The outlines of the Begley character and...elected to stay close to home. He revamps Al Schmidt for the Midwest and renames him Warren Schmidt, an actuary at an Omaha insurance company...
- `About Schmidt'.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Lovell, Glenn December 18, 2002 700+ words
...Lovell All you need to know about Warren Schmidt, at least at the outset, is that...of the last 10 years, "About Schmidt" is the rarest of a rare breed...foot-long Winnebago. We meet Schmidt, 66, on his last day on the job...
