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List Price: $19.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 426
Released: June 10, 2008 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
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.
Description of The Bucket List:
"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
The Bucket List Reviews:
Ought To Be Required For Everyone Over Age 40 
2009-10-12 - I admit up front I am a big fan of Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. That said, this was a quality movie about the serious topic of mortality, death,and related things.
The movie had a few sobering moments, granted. But the movie as a whole was funny, very sensitive and heart warming, and Nicholson and Freeman complemented the other in delivering strong performances. The script was well done and the movie pace was quite good, considering what is a rather serious subject matter and in the star's cases, a serious situation.
I recommend it to people who are healthy in particular. We take good health for granted until we find out we have something wrong that stirs us into action or perhaps puts us in the hospital. This movie addresses the lighter side of living life to its fullest and also making the most of what time we do have left, even if we might not have as much as we would like. A well done movie that is for the most part, funny and highly entertaining.
Good movie- Sad but funny too! 
2009-10-06 - This is a good movie - I like Nicholson and Freeman together. It is sad in alot of ways - deep in meaning - but it is a good movie at the ending for what it is and for what it is about. There is comedy in most of this - but it is a deep movie all the same. I liked it - bought it for my mother.
Makes you think
2009-09-10 - As most people know The Bucket List, is a movie about preparing what you would like to do before you die. However, regular day-to-day stuff usually gets in the way and for some reason we always think there will be time to do it later. We put off that vacation to save money; plan things we'll do with our kids but the kids grow up and this is a great reminder of taking one day at a time. This isn't a movie that I expected to enjoy, however I really did like it. The movie is interesting - enjoyed all the triva that Morgan Freeman knew in his role. It showed that you should never judge a book by it's cover. Life takes us down different, unexpected roads more times than not and we seldom take the time to find out about a person before we label them. Sometimes you have to walk a mile in someone else's shoes. More than anything this movie made me think and made me look at each day differently. A very entertaining way to teach us all a lesson. I haven't made a "bucket list" but I have learned to appreaciate each day and realize what is really important in my life.
Smell the roses
2009-09-10 - I survived cancer in 2006 and this movie helped me focus on what is good in life and what I need to do to enjoy more than what I already had. Great movie and now I'm enjoying my life to fullest. Arriverderci.
A wonderful film
2009-09-05 - When this film was first advertised I looked forward to it. Upon release and mixed reviews, I feared the worst. Finally, I laughed in the middle and cried at the end. Maybe reviewers are too young or maybe they're just so scared of death themselves that they don't know how to react without prejudice to a movie that is, at its core, about just plain dying. Maybe I liked this movie because I am 56 years old and yesterday Tim Russert, only 58, died suddenly. This movie gives people in the second half of our lives hope that we may be given a little time to do what we didn't do and smooth over the rough edges of our lives. Yes, the Nicholson character being so wealthy and the working class Freeman character just happening to luck out and meet the rich guy is contrived. But, really, what in a film is not contrived? Isn't that the core of story-telling: making up or choosing a tale to fit the desired message? All movies have a message or movie makers wouldn't make them. The message here is simple: you're born, you die and hopefully sometime in between you make yourself and others happy. This is a wonderful film.
