The Bucket List
Both corporate billionaire Edward Cole (Nicholson) and working class mechanic Carter Chambers (Freeman) are 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 before they "kick the bucket". Together they embark on the road trip ticking off their to-do-lists.
- Director:
- Rob Reiner ('When Harry Met Sally', 'The Princess Bride', 'Stand By Me', 'This Is Spinal Tap', 'A Few Good Men')
- Writer:
- Justin Zackham
- Cast:
- Jack NicholsonMorgan FreemanSean HayesBeverly ToddRob Morrow
Reviews & comments
Aiming high at inspiration and positive death
I thoroughly enjoyed this joyous blending of skills of two actors known for very different films and strengths. They looked like they were having a time full of camaraderie which made this a 'feel good' light comedy, despite its theme of dying...which let's be realistic we all have to face. The audience whom I sat alongside chuckled and laughed aloud and...
Variety
pressA feel-good film about death, a sitcom about mortality, "Ikiru" for meatheads. It's also a picture about two cancer patients confronting reality, and deciding how they want to spend their presumed last days, that has not an ounce of reality about it.
Roger Ebert
pressA movie about two old codgers who are nothing like people, both suffering from cancer that is nothing like cancer, and setting off on adventures that are nothing like possible.
Premiere Magazine
pressThis terminally ill, terminally awful dramedy marks a sad cinematic milestone: The Bucket List is the first film in history to feature a truly wretched Nicholson performance -- and we're not talking about the character he plays.
Newshub
pressThe film's not a complete waste of time, but certainly left me wishing it was so much more.
Los Angeles Times
pressFreeman and Nicholson make the most of Justin Zackham's script, but there just isn't enough substance behind their characters to prop up the carpe diem platitudes. The result is a semi-comedic, geriatric "Brokeback Mountain" minus the sex and with a Himalayan summit.
Hollywood Reporter
pressYou'd think the team of Rob Reiner, Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman might have had the right stuff. Alas, their labored efforts fail to lift The Bucket List out of its flatlining state.
Variety
pressA feel-good film about death, a sitcom about mortality, "Ikiru" for meatheads. It's also a picture about two cancer patients confronting reality, and deciding how they want to spend their presumed last days, that has not an ounce of reality about it.
Roger Ebert
pressA movie about two old codgers who are nothing like people, both suffering from cancer that is nothing like cancer, and setting off on adventures that are nothing like possible.
Premiere Magazine
pressThis terminally ill, terminally awful dramedy marks a sad cinematic milestone: The Bucket List is the first film in history to feature a truly wretched Nicholson performance -- and we're not talking about the character he plays.
Newshub
pressThe film's not a complete waste of time, but certainly left me wishing it was so much more.
Los Angeles Times
pressFreeman and Nicholson make the most of Justin Zackham's script, but there just isn't enough substance behind their characters to prop up the carpe diem platitudes. The result is a semi-comedic, geriatric "Brokeback Mountain" minus the sex and with a Himalayan summit.
Hollywood Reporter
pressYou'd think the team of Rob Reiner, Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman might have had the right stuff. Alas, their labored efforts fail to lift The Bucket List out of its flatlining state.
Aiming high at inspiration and positive death
I thoroughly enjoyed this joyous blending of skills of two actors known for very different films and strengths. They looked like they were having a time full of camaraderie which made this a 'feel good' light comedy, despite its theme of dying...which let's be realistic we all have to face. The audience whom I sat alongside chuckled and laughed aloud and...
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