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About Schmidt

2001

Boulder

Feature Film

Warren Schmidt sits alone at a bare desk in an emptied office, with packed file boxes stacked by the windows.
Still from About Schmidt (2002). © 2002 New Line Productions, Inc. All rights reserved.
Warren Schmidt in a tuxedo and other guests applaud at a wedding reception table as a woman in a red feathered hat holds a champagne glass.
Still from About Schmidt (2002). © 2002 New Line Productions, Inc. All rights reserved.
A woman in a purple striped robe relaxes in a wicker chair with her bare feet up and a drink in her hand.
Still from About Schmidt (2002). © 2002 New Line Productions, Inc. All rights reserved.
Warren Schmidt, in a track jacket with a cap in hand, turns his face to the sun beside a motor home among trees.
Still from About Schmidt (2002). © 2002 New Line Productions, Inc. All rights reserved.
Warren Schmidt in a trench coat sits in an airport gate lounge beside a young woman and a man with a mustache.
Still from About Schmidt (2002). © 2002 New Line Productions, Inc. All rights reserved.
Close-up of Warren Schmidt, his hair windblown, pointing a finger toward the camera.
Still from About Schmidt (2002). © 2002 New Line Productions, Inc. All rights reserved.
A young woman in a cardigan sits at a dining table with a white cloth in a house with floral wallpaper.
Still from About Schmidt (2002). © 2002 New Line Productions, Inc. All rights reserved.
On a wedding reception set, an actor in a tuxedo gestures as a man in a dark sweater points off camera.
Behind the scenes of About Schmidt (2002). © 2002 New Line Productions, Inc. All rights reserved.

DIRECTED BY

Alexander Payne

STARRING

Jack NicholsonKathy BatesHope DavisDermot MulroneyJune Squibb

PRODUCTION TYPE

Feature Film

PRODUCTION COMPANY

Avery PixNew Line Cinema

IMDb

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RELEASE DATE

December 13, 2002

FILMED IN BOULDER

One building, one exterior. The angular mid-century sanctuary at 950 28th Street in Boulder, then home to First Christian Church, plays the church where Warren Schmidt’s daughter gets married, standing in for a church the script places in Denver.

Everything behind those doors was shot roughly 550 miles away at Messiah Lutheran Church in Omaha, and the other Colorado shots were made inside Denver proper: the Winnebago on East Colfax Avenue by the Ogden Theatre and on the I-25 approach into the city. Boulder County supplied the face of the wedding church and, as far as the record shows, nothing else.

ABOUT

A newly retired Omaha insurance actuary discovers that his job had been holding most of his identity together, and a sudden loss at home takes away what little was left. He aims an oversized motor home west toward Denver, where his daughter is about to marry a waterbed salesman he cannot stomach, unloading his unedited thoughts along the way into letters to a six-year-old Tanzanian boy he sponsors for twenty-two dollars a month.

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