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66-year-old Warren Schmidt is a retired insurance salesman and has no particular plans other than to drive around in the motor home his wife insisted they buy. He's not altogether bitter, but not happy either, as everything his wife does annoys him, and he disapproves of the man his daughter is about to marry. When his wife suddenly dies, he sets out to postpone the imminent marriage of his daughter to a man he doesn't like, while coping with discoveries about his late wife and himself in the process.

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By Abishai John
About Schmidt

About Schmidt, as the title suggests, is about a man named Warren Schmidt.

In ways, Schmidt is the equivalent of the colour beige - there's absolutely nothing noteworthy about him. He is more than happy to simply live his life as it passes him by.

We join Schmidt on his retirement day which now leaves him with nothing to do at home. He is a man with no purpose or meaning. He feels alienated from his wife who he no longer recognises and has grown to loathe.

In what might be the single most noteworthy event of Schmidt's life to that point - his wife collapses dead. This invigorates Schmidt enough to get on his new Winnebago and...

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