About Schmidt (2002)


Jack Nicholson          Warren Schmidt
Hope Davis              Jeannie Schmidt
Dermot Mulroney         Randall Hertzel
Kathy Bates             Roberta Hertzel
James Crawley           Dave Goberson
Howard Hesseman         Larry Hertzel
Len Cariou              Ray Nichols
Tung Ha                 Phil Choi
Cheryl Hamada           Saundra
June Squibb             Helen Schmidt
Matt Winston            Gary Nordin, Warren's Replacement
Harry Groener           John Rusk
Connie Ray              Vicki Rusk

Directed by:            Alexander Payne
Produced by:            Bill Badalato, Rachael Horovitz, Harry Gittes


Warren Schmidt is a retired insurance salesman, who at age 66, has no particular plans other than 
to drive around in the motor home his wife insisted they buy. He's not altogether bitter, but not 
happy either, as everything his wife does annoys him, and he disapproves of the man his daughter is 
about to marry. When his wife suddenly dies, he sets out to postpone the imminent marriage of his 
daughter to a man he doesn't like, while coping with discoveries about his late wife and himself in 
the process.

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Warren Schmidt is forced to deal with an ambiguous future as he enters retirement. Soon after, his 
wife passes away and he must come to terms with his daughter's marriage to a man he does not care 
for and the failure that his life has become.