The Bucket List DVD (Region 1)

7.6	Listal rating

Manufacturer : Warner Home Video
Release date : 10 June 2008
Number of discs : 1
EAN : 0085391139881
UPC : 085391139881

Comedy (3), Drama (1), Adventure (1), PG-13 (1), Hdd (1), 2000's (1)

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DescriptionYou only live once, so why not go out in style? That’s what two cancer- ward roommates, an irascible billionaire (Jack Nicholson) and a scholarly mechanic (Morgan Freeman), decide when they get the bad news. They compose a bucket list – things to do before you kick the bucket – and head off for the around-the-world adven Description
You only live once, so why not go out in style? That’s what two cancer- ward roommates, an irascible billionaire (Jack Nicholson) and a scholarly mechanic (Morgan Freeman), decide when they get the bad news. They compose a bucket list – things to do before you kick the bucket – and head off for the around-the-world adventure of their lives. Sky dive? Check. Power a Shelby Mustang around a racetrack? Check. Gaze at the Great Pyramid of Khufu? Check. Discover the joy in their lives before it’s too late? Check! Under the nimble direction of Rob Reiner, the two great stars provide the heart and soul, wit and wiles of this inspired salute to life that proves that the best time of all is right now.

"You measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you," says the quietly wise Carter Chambers, played with gravitas and grace by a Morgan Freeman. In Rob Reiner's moving, often hilarious film The Bucket List, all sorts of people measure themselves against the two heroes, Chambers and his hospital suitemate, Edward Cole (Jack Nicholson). But as Cole finds, having spent his entire life building a Fortune 500 company, none of that much matters when cancer, the great equalizer, pays a visit. The film traces the adventures of the two unlikely friends, who meet in a hospital cancer ward, each given six months to live. The "bucket list" of the title refers to a lifelong list of goals that a teacher of Chambers once advised him to compile--and achieve--"before you kick the bucket." Soon the two are off on what may be the last grand adventure of their life, vowing to tick off as many goals (skydiving, race-car driving, seeing the wonders of the world) as they can in the time they have left. What starts as a medical melodrama becomes a road trip, yet the men's mortality realities are never far from thought. The two leads give impressive performances, and remind the viewer of just how few American films focus on the lives and loves of senior citizens. Nicholson even manages to lose his persona in his character, much as he did in About Schmidt. There's a lovely John Mayer tune, "Say (What You Need to Say)," that's perfectly matched to the film's clear-eyed view of life: What does one person leave behind as his true legacy? --A.T. Hurley

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moviemaniac126

hullarious, yet trouthful

Posted : 1 year, 5 months ago at Jul 8 19:39

Rob Riener directs this off-beat comedy that stars Morgan Freeman and jack Nicholson as two old men who want to have some fun before they kick the bucket. jack Nicholson's character Edward Cole is a rich Doctor who ownns a chain of hospitals and is filthy rich and stuck up,later to be diagnosed with cancer as well, a perfect character for Nicholson to portray . Morgan Freeman is Carter chambers an all around smart man who is pretty much a historian, with the ability to recall dates off the top of his head. after both men have collapsed due to their fateful diagnoses. this puts the two men in a room together and it's not long before the two become friends. however, when carter tells wife Virgina(Beverly Todd) this creates a problem for him. however, carter is not alone when he finds out the...Read more

Rating : 10/10

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Jessica

The Bucket List

Posted : 1 year, 6 months ago at Jun 5 5:08

Overall, not a bad movie. It picks up around the middle of the movie, and before that, it's a bit slow moving. jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman are well cast together. Touching and moving towards the end of the movie.

Rating : 8/10