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| | Salon.com Arts & Entertainment | "About Schmidt" |
 | | Schmidt, played by Jack Nicholson, is a 66-year-old insurance executive who, after his retirement, finds he has nothing in his life, no identity outside his work, nothing in common with Helen (June Squibb), his wife of 42 years. |
 | | Schmidt is meant to be the movie's Everyman -- or something like that, and his road trip is the movie's voyage of discovery. |
 | | But when Schmidt watches a falling star he believes is a sign from Helen, or when he breaks into tears from a crayon drawing that little Ndugu sends him of a man and boy holding hands, well, we're supposed to fill up, too. |
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