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14 April 2003
Filed under:Arts Reviews at1:44 pm

About Schmidt

About Schmidt

Alexander Payne

I am pre-disposed to like anything with Jack Nicholson and I enjoy edgy, downbeat alternative movies, so I was hoping About Schmidt would turn out to be quite a treat for me, but I ended up somewhat disappointed. I found it oddly uneven in tone – seemingly about to veer into conventional Hollywood sentimentality in places then retreating into embarassment or gloom.

Perhaps I’ve been too conditioned to look for something to ”take away” from a film? I never felt I really knew Schmidt and by the end of the film I didn’t feel I understood human nature any better. I just felt a little more depressed than I was when I started watching.

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