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The Bucket List

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7.2/10 • 3.7K

2007-12-251h 37m

DramaComedy

Find the joy.

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.

Directors
Rob Reiner
Writters
Justin Zackham
Editors
Robert Leighton

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  1. Jack Nicholson

    Jack Nicholson

    Edward Periman Cole

  2. Morgan Freeman

    Morgan Freeman

    Carter Chambers

  3. Sean Hayes

    Sean Hayes

    Thomas

  4. Beverly Todd

    Beverly Todd

    Virginia Chambers

  5. Alfonso Freeman

    Alfonso Freeman

    Roger Chambers

  6. Dawn Lewis

    Dawn Lewis

    Flight Attendant

  7. Rob Morrow

    Rob Morrow

    Dr. Hollins

  8. Brian Copeland

    Brian Copeland

    Lee

  9. Rowena King

    Rowena King

    Angelica

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John Chard

Sep 25, 2014

8.5/10

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

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$45,000,000.00
Revenue
$175,400,000.00
Keywords
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