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Release Date: 03 February, 2004 Retail Price: $14.98 OUR Price: $12.99 You SAVE: $1.99! Cast: Complete Cast (8 total) |
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Americana in a Can
Schmidt is a typical, white, middled-aged American, and, though somewhat happily married and recently retired from a successful career, has yet to experience a truly fulfilling life. He is in fact, "a sad, sad man," to quote a line from the film.
This film had a message: The American dream, when realized materially, can have little to do with happiness. Schmidt has yet to achieve happiness, even after years of hard work and dedication. Eventually he will stumble upon it through his tears, but not before he takes us for a hysterically funny ride in his RV, westward to Denver and his future in-laws, with stops at cynicism, loneliness, and desperation, and finally home again, to contentment and meaning.
The acting, writing, and music in this film, are each by themselves, worth possessing.
nicholson bravely goes where no other actor dares to tread
i dont think any other actor has invited us along to watch his aging process in the way jack nicholson has. the man is totally unafraid of revealing his flab and his baldness and the like. this epic odyssey and ode to loneliness takes him from a none too voluntary retirement thru the death of his unloved wife to a cross-country journey to his insufferable daughters marriage into an insufferable family and back home again -- all revealed in letters to his only confidante, a little boy in an african village that he has "adopted" thru a save the children-type organization. a little boy who is, of course, unable to read, much less grasp the meanderings of schmidts mind. this is a great movie from director alexander payne, who previously made the terrific "election" yet followed up this masterpiece with the misbegotten "sideways" -- one is truly wondering what comes next ...
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