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Quietly amusing meditation on ones life post 9:00-to-5:00 grind
Warren Schmidt (Jack Nicholson) retires from an insurance agency in Omaha and takes a road trip in his new RV, hoping maybe to reconnect with his daughter (Hope Davis) during her wedding in Denver. The distinguishing bracket for the story revolves around Warren honestly writing his new sponsor-child in Tanzania. June Squibb plays his wife, Dermot Mulroney his imminent son-in-law and Kathy Bates the latters mother. Howard Hesseman also shows up.
About Schmidt (2002) is a coming-of-old-age road flick, far superior to the similar Everybodys Fine (2009) with De Niro. You cant help but think of Thoreaus observation The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperatio...