DVD Release Date: June 10, 2008
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Morgan Freeman, Sean Hayes, Rob Morrow Genre: Comedy, Drama MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for language, including a sexual reference)
Review: Rob Reiner's "The Bucket
List" functions with a strong sense of What If: What if you discovered you were
terminally ill? What if you finally decided to live your remaining days to the
fullest? What if you discovered more in those remaining days than you ever
discovered before? Edward Cole (Jack Nicholson) and Carter Chambers (Morgan
Freeman) are faced with scores of What Ifs when both are diagnosed with cancer
and given a finite number of days to live--with Cole's help, Chambers uses that
precious time to see the world and experience things he had previously only
dreamed of...more
Extras: "Writing a Bucket List" featurette,
John Mayer music video.
The Bucket List Release Date: December 25,
2007 (NY, LA, TOR; expands: Jan. 11, 2008) Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures Director: Rob Reiner Screenwriter: Justin Zackham Starring: Jack Nicholson, Morgan Freeman, Sean Hayes, Rob Morrow Genre: Comedy, Drama MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for language, including a sexual reference) Official Website:
TheBucketList.net
Plot Summary: Corporate billionaire Edward Cole (Jack Nicholson) and
working class mechanic Carter Chambers (Morgan Freeman) 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. Each
adventure adds another check to their list
EN 5 Second Review:
Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman directed by
Meathead himself, of course we love it!
The
eternal human struggle for answers is an unusually resonant chord for a
big-budget studio movie to strike Kyle Smith: NY Post
'THE Bucket List" is about vomiting blood, skull surgery,
night chills, chemotherapy and catheters, and it begins and ends with
people dying. In other words, it's a feel-good movie...more
The
Bucket List never ascends from the bowels of tearjerk
formula and audience pandering to a redemptive place of
truth and art Jan Stuart: Newsday
Jack Nicholson, playing a terminally ill billionaire,
interrupts a board meeting to ask someone in a tone of
withering impatience, "Did you ever read 'The Divine
Comedy'? Dante Alighieri's journey into hell?"...more
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(Warner).
EN 5 Second Review:
Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman directed by
Meathead himself, of course we love it!
The
Bucket List never ascends from the bowels of tearjerk
formula and audience pandering to a redemptive place of
truth and art