Stars: Sean Hayes, Jack Nicholson, Beverly Todd, Morgan Freeman

Director: Rob Reiner

Summary: Academy Award winners Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman team up for this first time in this comedy from Rob Reiner. The legendary actors star as two dying men with a list of things to accomplish in their time left.

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"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

Main Language:	English
Region:	Region B
Special Features:	Writing a Bucket List featurette, Rob Reiner Interviews the Stars: Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman, John Mayer music video 'Say', Interactive trivia track
Year:	2008
Release Date:	July 7, 2008
Runtime:	93 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	B D Y 17638
Keywords:	English, Comedy, List, Drama, Bucket
Genre:	Drama