About Schmidt (2002) 6/10
Warren Schmidt (Jack Nicholson) has just retired, and his wife has just died. Empty and sad, he journeys to his daughter’s (Hope Davis) wedding.
An entire thesis could be, and perhaps has been, written about the role in this film of Kathy Bates’s naked ass. By the time Schmidt arrives in Denver to meet the parents of his future son-in-law Randall (Dermot Mulroney), we are relieved by their warmth. Roberta (Bates) has a home painted in deep rusts and golds, decorated with art and musical instruments, and she dresses in a flowing purple caftan. After an hour of Schmidt’s sorrowful, repressed, seething grays and tans and blues, arriving in Denver is like finding a warm fire after trudging through the snow. » Read more..
