About Schmidt

Jack Nicholson’s “late-career masterpiece”, as Peter Bradshaw described it in The Guardian, a bittersweet comic gem from director Alexander Payne. Nicholson plays downtrodden corporate bean-counter Warren Schmidt who, following retirement, suddenly finds his life falling apart. In an attempt to re-build a relationship with his adored but estranged daughter he sets out on a cross-country road trip to stop her from marrying sleazy waterbed salesman Dermot Mulroney.