Schmidt Steps Back

The prickly beleaguered elderly WASP protagonist of About Schmidt and Schmidt Delivered scrambles for a last chance at love before the sun sets on the Hamptons. When we last saw lawyer Albert Schmidt ("Schmidtie" to all near and dear), he was still reeling from the loss of the paradise he'd found with Carrie, a Hispanic waitress forty years his junior, who finally declined his marriage proposal, and settling into a tenuous truce with his only child, Charlotte, a humorless PR flack for Big Tobacco, who broke his heart by marrying a wonky young (and, ahem, Jewish) associate at Schmidt's white-shoe firm. Now, with both Carrie and Charlotte pregnant, Schmidt faces a life alone, with only the crumbs of grandfatherly status to sustain him. His only hope: the French widow of a former partner--as elusive as she is beautiful. Whether his rusty seduction skills can lure her from Paris to the Hamptons won't be known, though, until Schmidt endures one more ordeal by...