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<font size="4"><br>About Schmidt</font>
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<br>movie review by David Gurevich</font>
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<p>The Manhattan-Hollywood Serious Movie Axis has a history of mocking the "fly-over states." Middle America's malls are a reliable bailout for many a big-budget studio picture, and what kind of artist can resist biting the saving hand? So when you find out that a screen version of <i>About Schmidt</i>, a novel by Louis Begley, originally set in the Hamptons, is set in Nebraska, your antennas go up - uh-oh, another big-city stab at American Babbittry.
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