About Schmidt Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

Plot

Jack Nicholson stars as Warren Schmidt, a man who is set adrift following retirement and the sudden death of his wife. Uncertain about his future as well as his past, Warren packs up his 30-foot Winnebago to set out on a journey across the Nebraska plains to attend his daughter's (Hope Davis) wedding to a waterbed salesman (Dermot Mulroney). But every step he takes seems wrong, and Warren seems destined to end his life as he lived it: a failure. But along the way, Warren recounts his journey and shares his observations with an unexpected friend - a poor Tanzanian boy he is sponsoring for 73 cents a day. In his long letters to the boy, Warren begins to see himself and the life he has lived with new eyes.

Comedy Drama

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  Jack Nicholson

  The Bucket List, The Departed

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  Hope Davis

  Greenland, The Mastermind

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  June Squibb

  Thelma, Eleanor The Great

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  Kathy Bates

  The Blind Side, Rumor Has It

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  Howard Hesseman

  Wild Oats, Man About Town

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  Dermot Mulroney

  Night Patrol , Anyone But You

Who is making About Schmidt – Crew List

The film's writer Jim Taylor last penned Juliet, Naked and Downsizing.

Director

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Screenwriter

Jim Taylor

Producers

Michael Besman
Harry Gittes

Production – What we know about the About Schmidt

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Dec 2004

Completed

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