Warren Schmidt is 66 years old and he's retiring. He had a great job and now some young guy is trying to fill his shoes and he is going home to just relax and live the retired persons life. What does one do after working for so many years and having a good routine going for themselves and then being told to stop, go home, do nothing, be bored. Warren has a nagging wife, who he loves, but the nagging and boredom of his life has made it hard to take. Eventually his boredom find him watching a commercial about the poor unfortunate children in Africa on the Childreach program. He becomes a participant and becomes the donating foster parent of a kid in Africa named Ndugu. He has no one to talk to and not much to do with his life and Ndugu becomes his way of venting and getting it all out of his system. He opens up and talks about what he is feeling to the child.
Warrens wife dies and he heads out to Colorado to try to talk his daughter Jennie out of getting married to her "ninkempoop" fiancé. He hops in his RV and heads across country for a wild adventure before going to watch his only child be wed. He stays with the in laws and finds life is no better when you try to run from it.
The story has many adventures and many truths and just when you think you're no longer of importance or no longer worth the life you hold, you may find that you do matter of a great deal to someone and be very important to them.
I LOVE THIS MOVIE! this makes maybe my 6th time watching it and it is pure perfection to me. The story is so sad and I cry almost all the way through it, and the beautiful thing is when I am not crying I am laughing hysterically. From the subtle face Jack makes to the dinner table scene complete with a lazy Susan and a box of milk bones to Kathy Bates naked hot tub dip to the crazy vows and silly songs at the wedding, this movie is perfect.
Directing is great and has so many beautiful scenes, the music is absolutely dead on with the moods and the little touches of brilliance that you see on camera throughout are superb. The sets were so real and appropriate as well, especially with Roberta's house. Acting was perhaps the best I have seen in years Jack Nicholson did his best work right here and got many awards and much appreciation for it. Kathy Bates did her best here too, I never thought she could top that of Misery but she did here, such wonderful actors, everyone on this film was just amazing.
I can recommend it very proudly as one of my very favorite films, its a tear jerker, but it is extremely laugh out loud funny...10 perfect stars
Warrens wife dies and he heads out to Colorado to try to talk his daughter Jennie out of getting married to her "ninkempoop" fiancé. He hops in his RV and heads across country for a wild adventure before going to watch his only child be wed. He stays with the in laws and finds life is no better when you try to run from it.
The story has many adventures and many truths and just when you think you're no longer of importance or no longer worth the life you hold, you may find that you do matter of a great deal to someone and be very important to them.
I LOVE THIS MOVIE! this makes maybe my 6th time watching it and it is pure perfection to me. The story is so sad and I cry almost all the way through it, and the beautiful thing is when I am not crying I am laughing hysterically. From the subtle face Jack makes to the dinner table scene complete with a lazy Susan and a box of milk bones to Kathy Bates naked hot tub dip to the crazy vows and silly songs at the wedding, this movie is perfect.
Directing is great and has so many beautiful scenes, the music is absolutely dead on with the moods and the little touches of brilliance that you see on camera throughout are superb. The sets were so real and appropriate as well, especially with Roberta's house. Acting was perhaps the best I have seen in years Jack Nicholson did his best work right here and got many awards and much appreciation for it. Kathy Bates did her best here too, I never thought she could top that of Misery but she did here, such wonderful actors, everyone on this film was just amazing.
I can recommend it very proudly as one of my very favorite films, its a tear jerker, but it is extremely laugh out loud funny...10 perfect stars