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.
Jack Nicholson
Edward Periman Cole
Morgan Freeman
Carter Chambers
Sean Hayes
Thomas
Beverly Todd
Virginia Chambers
Alfonso Freeman
Roger Chambers
Dawn Lewis
Flight Attendant
Rob Morrow
Dr. Hollins
Brian Copeland
Lee
Rowena King
Angelica
Annton Berry Jr.
Kai
Destiny Brownridge
Maya
Verda Bridges
Chandra
Ian Anthony Dale
Instructor
Jennifer Defrancisco
Emily
Angela Gardner
Female Administrator
Noel Gugliemi
Mechanic
Jonathan Hernandez
Manny
Karen Maruyama
Nurse Shing
Amber Mead
Attractive Woman #1
Serena Reeder
Rachel
Christopher Stapleton
Kyle
Taylor Ann Thompson
Edward's Granddaughter
Alex Trebek
Self
Director
Rob Reiner
Writer
Justin Zackham
September 25, 2014
9
You measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you.
Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman play two terminally ill men who check out of their cancer ward and head off on a road trip to complete their Bucket List of things to do before they die.
Every once in a while a film comes along with such simplicity of warmth it rises above any charge of clichés and sugar coated sappiness. The Bucket List is one such film. Its message is simple, its filming style equally so. It's performed with such quality by Nicholson and Freeman (if the whole film had just been the two of them chatting in the hospital room it would have been a winner), with director Rob Reiner astute and wily enough to let them flow, that even as the inevitable sadness follows the laughs, you will feel far better for having watched this film.
Rewarding adult cinema with class showing on both sides of the camera. 8.5/10
Status:
Released
Original Language:
English
Budget:
$45,000,000.00
Revenue:
$175,400,000.00