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About Schmidt Movie Rating: 
Depressing | |
| Jack Nicholson stars as Warren Schmidt, a sad-sack senior citizen who's just learning to cope with life after retirement when his wife (June Squibb) dies unexpectedly. | |
| With nothing to do but write weepy letters to Ndugu, the African boy he recently began sponsoring through a children's charity, Schmidt hops into his Winnebago and embarks on a soul-searching road trip. After depressing visits to his childhood home and his alma mater, which he details in protracted letters to Ndugu, he visits his only daughter (Hope Davis), hoping to prevent her impending marriage to Randall (Dermot Mulroney), a trashy waterbed salesman. |
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| The film's maudlin tone is briefly offset by the strained quirkiness of Randall's mother (Kathy Bates), but returns in an ending so treacly it defies comprehension. | |
Passing
