About Schmidt

Director: Alexander Payne

Category: Comedy / Drama

Actors:

Jack Nicholson …. Warren R. Schmidt
Kathy Bates …. Roberta Hertzel
Hope Davis …. Jeannie Schmidt
Dermot Mulroney …. Randall Hertzel
June Squibb …. Helen Schmidt
Howard Hesseman …. Larry Hertzel
Harry Groener …. John Rusk
Connie Ray …. Vicki Rusk
Len Cariou …. Ray Nichols
Mark Venhuizen …. Duncan Hertzel
Cheryl Hamada …. Saundra
Phil Reeves …. Minister in Denver
Matt Winston …. Gary Nordin
James M. Connor …. Randall’s Best Man (as James Micheal Connor)
Jill Anderson …. Bridesmaid Reading St. Paul

Synopsis:

When insurance actuary Warren Schmidt (Jack Nicholson) retires and his wife dies, he looks for life’s meaning on a road trip to his daughter’s (Hope Davis) upcoming wedding to a waterbed salesman (Dermot Mulroney). But Warren can’t seem to get anything right. En route to the wedding, he shares his life through letters with a Tanzanian boy he’s sponsoring for 73 cents a day and soon, Warren discovers renewed purpose.