About Schmidt (2002)
Country: US
Technical: Fotokem 125m
Director: Alexander Payne
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Hope Davis, Dermot Mulroney, Len Cariou, Kathy Bates
Synopsis:
A Nebraska insurance man retires from a comfortable position in one of the nation's leading firms and finds adjusting to his daughter's choice of bridegroom almost as difficult as reconciling himself to a steadily reducing horizon.
Review:
A rare animal: the midlife crisis film as 'third life' crisis. Being an American film it cannot resist tempering its bleaker, more jaundiced moments with feelgood gestures and, less comfortably, by taking potshots at easy targets (mobile home enthusiasts, obesity, imbecillity). Nevertheless, it maintains its main character's ill-informed, uncomprehending anger to the end and even then contrives not to sell out. The final shot, with Nicholson weeping at his sponsor child's painting sent to him from Tanzania, redeems in great measure the clumsiness gone before.
Country: US
Technical: Fotokem 125m
Director: Alexander Payne
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Hope Davis, Dermot Mulroney, Len Cariou, Kathy Bates
Synopsis:
A Nebraska insurance man retires from a comfortable position in one of the nation's leading firms and finds adjusting to his daughter's choice of bridegroom almost as difficult as reconciling himself to a steadily reducing horizon.
Review:
A rare animal: the midlife crisis film as 'third life' crisis. Being an American film it cannot resist tempering its bleaker, more jaundiced moments with feelgood gestures and, less comfortably, by taking potshots at easy targets (mobile home enthusiasts, obesity, imbecillity). Nevertheless, it maintains its main character's ill-informed, uncomprehending anger to the end and even then contrives not to sell out. The final shot, with Nicholson weeping at his sponsor child's painting sent to him from Tanzania, redeems in great measure the clumsiness gone before.
Country: US
Technical: Fotokem 125m
Director: Alexander Payne
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Hope Davis, Dermot Mulroney, Len Cariou, Kathy Bates
Synopsis:
A Nebraska insurance man retires from a comfortable position in one of the nation's leading firms and finds adjusting to his daughter's choice of bridegroom almost as difficult as reconciling himself to a steadily reducing horizon.
Review:
A rare animal: the midlife crisis film as 'third life' crisis. Being an American film it cannot resist tempering its bleaker, more jaundiced moments with feelgood gestures and, less comfortably, by taking potshots at easy targets (mobile home enthusiasts, obesity, imbecillity). Nevertheless, it maintains its main character's ill-informed, uncomprehending anger to the end and even then contrives not to sell out. The final shot, with Nicholson weeping at his sponsor child's painting sent to him from Tanzania, redeems in great measure the clumsiness gone before.