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About Schmidt is a 2002 American comedy-drama film co-written and directed by Alexander Payne and starring Jack Nicholson in the title role. The film also stars Hope Davis, Dermot Mulroney, and Kathy Bates. It is loosely based on the 1996 novel of the same title by Louis Begley. After it was released in theaters by New Line Cinema on December ...
Sep 3, 1996 · Follow. Louis Begley is an American novelist. Begley was born Ludwik Begleiter in Stryi at the time part of Poland and now in Ukraine, as the only child of a physician. He is a survivor of the Holocaust due to the multiple purchases of Aryan papers by his mother and constant evasion of the Nazis. They survived by pretending to be Polish Catholic.
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Dec 20, 2002 · Warren Schmidt is a man without resources. He has no intellectual curiosity. May never have read a book for pleasure. Lives in a home "decorated" with sets of collector's items accumulated by his wife, each in the display case that came with the items. On his retirement day, he is left with nothing but time on his empty hands. He has spent his entire life working at a job that could have been ...
ABOUT SCHMIDT. by Louis Begley ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 1, 1996. An elegant, precise, droll novel about a lawyer's startling transformation, by the author of Wartime Lies (1991) and The Man Who Was Late (1993). A recent widower (he and his wife Mary had seemed to exemplify the old New York ideal of elegance and accomplishment), retired at the ...
Sep 15, 1996 · Some of the most vivid examples in the book create an air of almost unbearable isolation, as when Schmidt recalls making love with his (literally) unconscious wife or relates the simple ...
In Louis Begley's fine new novel, ''About Schmidt,'' the property at issue is a house in the Hamptons, and although most readers might salivate at the prospect of owning such a house, inherited by Albert Schmidt from his wife's maiden aunt, his daughter -- wouldn't you know? -- would rather spend her weekends upstate, and her fiancé worries ...
Sep 8, 1997 · --Los Angeles Times Book Review "In what could be called a novel of bad manners, Begley again demonstrates that he can reveal the complexities of society and personality with a clear eye and graceful style. Schmidt may not live up to today's strict standards of political correctness, but he more than meets the requirements of convincing fiction."
