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The Bucket List [2008]
from Warner Home Video
starring Sean Hayes, Jack Nicholson, Beverly Todd, Morgan Freeman
directed by Rob Reiner

Features:

• PAL

Editorial Review:

"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

In The Bucket List, a corporate billionaire (Jack Nicholson) and a working class mechanic (Morgan Freeman) find their lives thrown together when they end up sharing a hospital room. Both at a crossroads in their lives they come to realise that they have two things in common: a desire to spend the time they have left doing everything they ever wanted, as well as an unrealised need to come to terms with who they are. So before they, as the expression has it, "kick the bucket", the two men will support each other in realising their dreams.

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.

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Brilliant!
  Buy it (recommended), borrow it, download it....
  however you get your hands on this film, its a must see.

• Well constructed lightweight feelgood movie
  It's really virtually impossible not to like a movie with Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson in it.. they add a sense of gravitas to anything they are in - and there is pleasure to be had in watching their contrasting styles spark off each other.
  Here, the play two men, both suffering from cancer, sharing a room at a hospital (in a rather contrived set up). After some preamble to fleetingly show that they are actually not well, they create a bucket list - a list of things they want to do before kicking... more info

• Brilliant
  I don't think I've ever seen a film starring Jack Nicholson, at least since noticing him first of all in Witches of Eastwick, where he's been anything other than brilliant. I had some time ago read a review where they rubbished the film, so I was a bit hesitant about watching it, but I'm glad I ignored it. One of the best films I've seen for a long time.

• Emotional, realistic and memorable
  This tells the story of two terminally ill men, one a self made billionaire, the other a humble garage mechanic. They find themselves sharing a hospital side room as they undergo treatment for multiple cancer. Both are aware that they will die. They decide to compose a "bucket list" i.e. a list of things they wish to do before they die, or "kick the bucket", hence its title. These things range from sky diving to visiting the pyramids. The extreme wealth of the billionaire helps them live out these... more info

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