After retiring and losing his wife, Warren Schmidt feels purposeless and invisible, so he drives across America to attend his daughter's wedding in Denver. Along the way, he writes heartfelt letters to Ndugu, a Tanzanian child he sponsors, revealing his deep loneliness and regrets. The film is a poignant, darkly comic meditation on mortality, meaning, and human connection.
An essential entry — About Schmidt embodies exactly what this collection is about.
An essential entry — About Schmidt embodies exactly what this collection is about.
An essential entry — About Schmidt embodies exactly what this collection is about.
Alexander Payne films Jack Nicholson's retired Omaha actuary writing letters to a Tanzanian foster child. The film is the loneliness of a man who never noticed it.
