Storyline
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.
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Cast
Noel Gugliemi, Karen Maruyama, Morgan Freeman, Jack Nicholson, Sean Hayes, Beverly Todd, Alfonso Freeman, Rowena King, Rob Morrow, Annton Berry Jr., Verda Bridges, Destiny Brownridge, Brian Copeland, Ian Anthony Dale, Jennifer Defrancisco, Angela Gardner, Jonathan Hernandez, Amber Mead, Serena Reeder, Christopher Stapleton, Taylor Ann Thompson, Dawn Lewis
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Reviews
75
The movie's sincerity helps it get over some of the most difficult hurdles and the feeling after leaving theater is one of having experienced something worthwhile albeit unremarkable.
67
The A.V. Club
There are certainly worse ways to spend the holiday season than in the company of two charming old actors, being reminded that human companionship makes life worth living, even as it makes dying a little tougher.
60
Variety
A 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.
60
Village Voice
Turns out The Bucket List is a meta-film, mostly about how these two legendary actors interact and what it means to be an actor in your own life.
50
You'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.
