Very enjoyable. Always love Jack.

Jack Nicholson gives one of his very best performances in this intelligent and heartfelt character study. Also includes a great supporting cast that includes Hope Davis, Dermot Mulroney, and Kathy Bates. Alexander Payne crafts a clever, funny, and touching film that feels relatable, genuine, and humane.

Amazing performance by Nicholson, especially in contrast to his real life persona. Deceivingly hilarious. Underrated effort from Alexander Payne.

Part of my project to watch every Jack Nicholson film

A focused, poignant and heartbreaking portrait of a man who is lonely. Very simple but emotionally layered. Despite being a little uneven, the films most impressive aspect is the performance from Jack Nicholson. He captures and embodies the perfect level of emotion needed to make your heart bleed for his character.

The greatest actor of all time? Very possibly. Still got a long way to go in my quest of watching every Jack Nicholson film, though.

I revisited this after THE DESCENDANTS came out. I still like it very much. Some will criticize it for its overly broad humor, I guess, but it works for me. This and ELECTION are my fav from Mr. Payne.

This movie started off good and ended good. The middle itself is a problem. The movie can somewhat be seen as a semi dark comedy and Jack Nicholson plays his part well. The middle of the film is more of a slow burn and it seems to never reach the end of the flame. The ending does patch things together nicely however and I enjoyed the resolution towards the end. Overall I will most likely never watch the film again, but it does have its moments.

A mundane and lifeless film about mundanity.

esse filme é ok
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Good film.
In this melodramatic family drama, Jack Nicholson gives a moving performance with funny and heartbreaking moments as a sad and depressed man named Schmidt.
It's humane, like most of Payne's films and well, dramatic.
Enjoyable.

eh

Very enjoyable. Always love Jack.

This movie, like many many other movies, is about just life in general. It's themes consistently encourage us to examine our own place on the planet. About Schmidt's difference is not represented by much physical evidence. But to me, it definitely feels like a stronger film than most others with these relatable themes - Payne's very subtle direction, the film's overall grey environment and quietness, the spot-on and well-timed hints at humor, the vulnerability of an actor who is, in almost all other cases, alienic in his portrayals, combined with lines like, "what difference have I made?", and the totally unexpected and powerful ending... About Schmidt is an abnormally strong film hiding in a very modest casing.

I can relate to this guy so well, right down to his blizzard order at dairy queen and preference for bbq chips over plain.

Days after he finally retires, Warren Schmidt (Jack Nicholson) is confronted with the fact that he has no idea how to run his own life after his wife dies unexpectedly. Lost and falling apart without his wife to take care of him, Warren buys a motor home and decides to visit his daughter (Hope Davis) in time to stop her from marrying the unsophisticated Randall (Dermot Mulroney). Instead he finds himself laid up with an injured back, being taken care of by his future in-law, the sexually uninhibited Roberta (Kathy Bates). Warren realizes he has wasted his life and become a miserable old man, only to wonder if he still has time to turn it all around. Alexander Payne directs this meditation on turning a life around, and the struggle it takes to win over people you’ve dismissed for decades.