The Bucket List

PG-13

12/25/20071h 37m

Theatrical (limited) Release (US)

~ Find the joy. ~

Overview:

Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers are worlds apart. At a crossroads in their lives, they share a hospital room and discover they have two things in common: a desire to spend the time they have left doing everything they ever wanted to do and an unrealized need to come to terms with who they are. Together they embark on the road trip of a lifetime, becoming friends along the way and learning to live life to the fullest, with insight and humor.

Director:

Rob Reiner

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$45,000,000.00

Revenue:

$175,400,000.00

Key words:

dying and death
friendship
husband wife relationship
himalaya mountain range
parent child relationship
brain tumor
africa
journey around the world
sense of life
safari
male friendship
wish
terminal illness
road trip
cancer
billionaire
estranged father
list
elderly
journey
bucket list
taj mahal, india

Cast

Jack Nicholson

~ as ~

Edward Periman Cole

Morgan Freeman

~ as ~

Carter Chambers

Sean Hayes

~ as ~

Thomas

Beverly Todd

~ as ~

Virginia Chambers

Alfonso Freeman

~ as ~

Roger Chambers

Dawn Lewis

~ as ~

Flight Attendant

Rob Morrow

~ as ~

Dr. Hollins

Brian Copeland

~ as ~

Lee

Rowena King

~ as ~

Angelica

Annton Berry Jr.

~ as ~

Kai

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Reviews (1)

John Chard
Written 10 year(s) ago
8.5
You measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you.

Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman play two terminally ill men who check out of their cancer ward and head off on a road trip to complete their Bucket List of things to do before they die.

Every once in a while a film comes along with such simplicity of warmth it rises above any charge of clichés and sugar coated sappiness. The Bucket List is one such film. Its message is simple, its filming style equally so. It's performed with such quality by Nicholson and Freeman (if the whole film had just been the two of them chatting in the hospital room it would have been a winner), with director Rob Reiner astute and wily enough to let them flow, that even as the inevitable sadness follows the laughs, you will feel far better for having watched this film.

Rewarding adult cinema with class showing on both sides of the camera. 8.5/10