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25/12/2007 Drama, Comedy 1h 37m
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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.

  1. Justin Zackham

    Writer

  2. Rob Reiner

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Jack Nicholson

    Edward Periman Cole

  2. Morgan Freeman

    Carter Chambers

  3. Sean Hayes

    Thomas

  4. Beverly Todd

    Virginia Chambers

  5. Alfonso Freeman

    Roger Chambers

  6. Dawn Lewis

    Flight Attendant

  7. Rob Morrow

    Dr. Hollins

  8. Brian Copeland

    Lee

  9. Rowena King

    Angelica

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Reviews

A review by John Chard
Written by John Chard on 2014-09-25
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...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$45,000,000.00

Revenue
$175,400,000.00

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