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About Schmidt Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

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Last modified: Dec. 22, 2008

About Schmidt

Release Date: Friday, December 13, 2002

Starring: Jack Nicholson Hope Davis June Squibb Kathy Bates Howard Hesseman

Screenwriter: Jim Taylor

R Comedy N/A

  • 2 / 5.0
14% 86%

Plot – What's the story about?

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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.
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Who is making About Schmidt – Crew List

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

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R Restricted for some language and brief nudity
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About Schmidt Release Date: When was the film released?

About Schmidt was released in on Friday, December 13 , 2002. There were four other movies released on the same date, including The Hot Chick, Evelyn and Intacto.

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  • Added the soundtrack release date of December 10, 2002

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