About Schmidt 
Category: Comedy
Run time: 120 minutes
Director: Alexander Payne
Starring: Dermot Mulroney, Hope Davis, Jack Nicholson, Kathy Bates
As ageing retiree Warren Schmidt, Nicholson reins in the Jackisms. He trades the slickback hair for a comb-over and transforms from legendary lothario into fragile old man. It's a magnificent performance. And Schmidt is a magnificent character. We join him clockwatching in an empty office, as the seconds tick away on his last day in the "insurance game". A buttoned-down drone who once dreamed of entrepreneurial glory, he's irritated by his condescending replacement and can't bear staying at home with his prissy wife. Desperate for meaning, he sets out on a road trip to Denver, where he hopes to dissuade his daughter Jeannie (Hope Davis) from marrying sweet-but-dumb waterbed salesman Randall (Dermot Mulroney). Schmidt loathes this ponytailed idiot, and he's certainly not hard to smirk at. However, for all the jokes that are had at the expense of Randall and his hippy mother (Kathy Bates), Warren is just as amusing and tragic.
Category: Comedy
Run time: 120 minutes
Director: Alexander Payne
Starring: Dermot Mulroney, Hope Davis, Jack Nicholson, Kathy Bates
As ageing retiree Warren Schmidt, Nicholson reins in the Jackisms. He trades the slickback hair for a comb-over and transforms from legendary lothario into fragile old man. It's a magnificent performance. And Schmidt is a magnificent character. We join him clockwatching in an empty office, as the seconds tick away on his last day in the "insurance game". A buttoned-down drone who once dreamed of entrepreneurial glory, he's irritated by his condescending replacement and can't bear staying at home with his prissy wife. Desperate for meaning, he sets out on a road trip to Denver, where he hopes to dissuade his daughter Jeannie (Hope Davis) from marrying sweet-but-dumb waterbed salesman Randall (Dermot Mulroney). Schmidt loathes this ponytailed idiot, and he's certainly not hard to smirk at. However, for all the jokes that are had at the expense of Randall and his hippy mother (Kathy Bates), Warren is just as amusing and tragic.
