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Release Date:
20 December 2002 (USA)
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Tagline:
Schmidt Happens
Plot:
Warren Schmidt is a man in his 60's. While trying to run his daughter's life, he realizes that he wasted his. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for 2 Oscars.
Another 19 wins
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29 nominations
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(61 articles)
Everybody's (Sorta) Fine
(From IFC. 12 November 2009, 3:00 AM, PST)
De Niro to the 7th? (Oscar's Male Hierarchy)
(From FilmExperience. 6 November 2009, 3:46 AM, PST)
(From IFC. 12 November 2009, 3:00 AM, PST)
De Niro to the 7th? (Oscar's Male Hierarchy)
(From FilmExperience. 6 November 2009, 3:46 AM, PST)
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Life's quirks
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Jack Nicholson | ... | Warren Schmidt |
 | Kathy Bates | ... | Roberta Hertzel |
 | Hope Davis | ... | Jeannie Schmidt |
 | Dermot Mulroney | ... | Randall Hertzel |
 | June Squibb | ... | Helen Schmidt |
 | Howard Hesseman | ... | Larry Hertzel |
| Harry Groener | ... | John Rusk |
| Connie Ray | ... | Vicki Rusk |
 | Len Cariou | ... | Ray Nichols |
| Mark Venhuizen | ... | Duncan Hertzel |
| Cheryl Hamada | ... | Saundra |
 | Phil Reeves | ... | Minister in Denver |
 | Matt Winston | ... | Gary Nordin - Warren's Replacement |
 | James M. Connor | ... | Randall's Best Man (as James Micheal Connor) |
| Jill Anderson | ... | Bridesmaid Reading St. Paul |
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Rated R for some language and brief nudity.
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125 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Malaysia:U |
Portugal:M/12 (original rating) |
Finland:K-3 |
Argentina:13 |
Australia:M |
Brazil:12 |
Canada:14A |
France:U |
Germany:6 (bw) |
Hong Kong:IIA |
Iceland:L |
Netherlands:AL |
New Zealand:M |
Norway:7 |
Peru:14 |
Singapore:NC-16 |
South Korea:12 |
Spain:T |
Sweden:7 |
Switzerland:12 (canton of the Grisons) |
Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) |
Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) |
UK:15 |
USA:R (certificate #38731)
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The church shown during the wedding rehearsal is in Boulder, Colorado, 20 miles northwest of Denver. The church can be seen on the right from Hwy. 36 just as you enter town.
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Continuity: During a conversation between Schmidt and his daughter, his sandwich changes from a fairly sparse one to a somewhat plumper one. It subsequently returns to its original thin shape.
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Warren Schmidt:
Relatively soon, I will die. Maybe in 20 years, maybe tomorrow, it doesn't matter. Once I am dead and everyone who knew me dies too, it will be as though I never existed. What difference has my life made to anyone. None that I can think of. None at all.
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Referenced in The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing (2004)
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You Sexy Thing
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I love Nicolson and I thought his work in this film was as good as any I have seen him do in any of his previous films. My accolades must begin with the writers for creating such a beautiful novel and script-a perfect canvas for the many fine actors in this film upon which they wove their considerable magic. There were no killings, no car chases, no violence of any kind-I'm surprised that Hollywood distributed it.
Such a slice of life-American life with it's many warts-warts that the Americans probably don't even recognize: Winnebagos like moving palaces, freeway monuments to genocide, business that consumes it's workers only to dump them unceremoniously, too much of everything that amounts to emptiness, etc., etc. The novel by Begley, upon which the film was based, illustrated this consumer emptiness brilliantly by the inclusion of the bookends to the film, the sponsorship of the Tanzanian child by Schmidt. The child's material emptiness was contrasted with Schmidt's emotional emptiness in a way America does not recognize much less watch on the screen.
The last part of the movie dealing with the marriage of Schmidt's daughter to a man who came from a diametrically opposite "new age" family was an unstated acknowledgment by his daughter that she wanted nothing of her father's values-she wanted a complete break and she was going to marry the break.
A fascinating, complex movie and I'm sorry I didn't see it much earlier.