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About Schmidt

April 2023

  • Jack Nicholson in The Shining.

    Ranked
    Jack Nicholson’s 20 best performances – ranked!

    As the legendary actor turns 86 on Saturday, we rate decades of his most celebrated roles – from grinning wrong ’uns to lovable rakes and crazed murderers

January 2017

  • Groundhog Day film

    Inspiring culture for 2017
    From Groundhog Day to … Raging Bull? – films to inspire and uplift

    Supposedly ‘inspirational’ films tend to leave our critic reaching for the sick bag. He finds defeated boxers, desperate weathermen and boozy, cantankerous widowers far more uplifting

July 2003

  • About Schmidt

    A brave follow-up to Election for writer-director Alexander Payne. In the first place, having an oldie as your lead is a great rarity. In the second - hallelujah! - the oldie in question is neither loveable nor crusty (Hollywood's usual options for the over-60s) but the sort of average bloke you might meet in real life.

January 2003

  • Jack Nicholson in About Schmidt

    About Schmidt review – a tender, acrid, comic masterpiece

    Alexander Payne’s followup to Election is a pitch-perfect blend of melancholy, broad comedy and a compassionate assessment of America’s can-do civic values

December 2002

  • Growing old dysfunctionally

  • About Schmidt wins LA film critics award

October 2002

  • ABOUT SCHMIDT

    Jack Nicholson: 'I have a sweet spot for what's attractive to me'

    Jack Nicholson says he gets nervous before filming and likes to stay in. Who is he trying to kid? The veteran actor talks ageing, dating and eroticism

May 2002

  • Nicholson dazzles audience with his misery

    Jack Nicholson yesterday said that he played the most miserable role of his life in the Cannes shortlisted tragi-comedy About Schmidt. But his performance may well be just good enough to win the film an award at the festival, judging from the enthusiastic reactions from audiences and critics.

March 2001

  • Meryl Streep joins Spielberg's Minority Report

    Plus: Kidman goes to the dogs for von Trier; Kathy Bates lives it up in About Schmidt; Jason Alexander gets shallow for the Farrelly brothers; Jude Law to take a bite of Hannibal?

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