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Film · 2002 · Comedy drama
About Schmidt
Directed by Alexander Payne
2002
★ 5.1 editorial score
Payne stripped Jack Nicholson of every trick he has: a retired insurance actuary drives a motorhome across Nebraska writing letters to a six-year-old in Tanzania he has never met.
“Alexander Payne's tragi-comedy, about a 66-year-old insurance executive who enters a twilit night of the soul on his wife's death, is pitch-perfect in its melancholy, its broad comedy, its compassionate assessment of America's can-do civic values and the muddled, unassuming decency of the suburban midwest, under whose vast skies our hero tries to come to terms with what, if anything, his life has been about.”
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