It’s easy to presume that About Schmidt isn’t much of a movie, since its protagonist, Warren Schmidt, isn’t much of anything. He’s portrayed by Jack Nicholson, but the actor is actually someone who ...
In About Schmidt, Alexander Payne’s black comedy about a retired insurance man’s reassessment of his bleak life, Jack Nicholson’s Warren Schmidt sets out from sleepy Omaha in his huge motor home and ...
Jack Nicholson, right, plays Warren Schmidt, a Nebraska retiree in Alexander Payne's "About Schmidt." Actress Kathy Bates is at left. SHERITHA JONES Film director Alexander Payne returned home to ...