Composer Rolfe Kent's score is the perfect accompaniment to a film of gut wrenching sadness and undeniable comedy. The disc also includes score suites, a 16-minute interview with Kent and director Alexander Payne, and sound clips of Jack Nicholson's letters which highlight the comedic elements of the film.

Jack Nicholson stars as Warren Schmidt, a man who is set adrift following retirement and the sudden death of his wife. Uncertain about his future as well as his past, Warren packs up his 30-foot Winnebago to set out on a journey across the Nebraska plains to attend his daughter's (Hope Davis) wedding to a waterbed salesman (Dermot Mulroney). But every step he takes seems wrong, and Warren seems destined to end his life as he lived it: a failure. But along the way, Warren recounts his journey and shares his observations with an unexpected friend - a poor Tanzanian boy he is sponsoring for 73 cents a day. In his long letters to the boy, Warren begins to see himself and the life he has lived with new eyes. 2002

1. Afrikaan Beat-Bert Kaempfert-(bonus track)
2. Telling Ndugu About The Family
3. About Schmidt
4. Schmidt Went To Denver
5. Randall's Room
6. Guiltily Escaping The Rusks
7. Helen Goes, Schmidt Stays
8. Of Life After Helen
9. Fury Of Schmidt
10. Shopping With Schmidt
11. Missing Helen
12. Riverside Prayer
13. Dinner With Randall's Relatives
14. Schmidt Revisited His Alma Mater
15. Schmidt At The Wedding
16. Omaha Return
17. Ndugu's Painting
18. What I Really Want To Say
19. End Credits Of About Schmidt
20. Constantine & Warren
21. Afrikaan Beat - Bert Kaempfert - (bonus track)
22. Ndugu Letter - (bonus track)
23. Interview With Alexander & Rolfe - (bonus track)