Official Movie Website Theatrical Release 12/25/07 (LA&NY) 01/11/08 (Wide) Home Video Not Available MPAA Rating Rated PG-13 for language, including a sexual reference. Running Time 1 hour 47 minutes Genre Comedy, Drama Director Rob Reiner Writer Justin Zackham Cast Jack Nicholson, Morgan Freeman, Sean Hayes, Rob Morrow Studio Warner Brothers |
THE BUCKET LIST (2007)
SYNOPSIS
Academy Award winners Jack Nicholson and
Morgan Freeman star in the comedy drama "The
Bucket List," directed by Rob Reiner, a touching,
no-holds-barred adventure that shows it's never too
late to live life to its fullest.
A long time ago, Carter Chambers' (Morgan
Freeman) freshman year philosophy professor
suggested that his students compose a "bucket
list," a collection of all the things they wanted to do,
see and experience in life before they kicked the
bucket.
But while Carter was still trying to define his private
dreams and plans, reality intruded. Marriage,
children, myriad responsibilities and, ultimately, a
46-year job as an auto mechanic gradually turned
his concept of a bucket list into little more than a
bittersweet memory of lost opportunities and a
mental exercise he occasionally thought about to
pass the time while working under the hood of a car.
Meanwhile, corporate billionaire Edward Cole (Jack
Nicholson) never saw a list without a bottom line. He
was always too busy making money and building an
empire to think about what his deeper needs might
be beyond the next big acquisition or cup of gourmet
coffee.
Academy Award winners Jack Nicholson and
Morgan Freeman star in the comedy drama "The
Bucket List," directed by Rob Reiner, a touching,
no-holds-barred adventure that shows it's never too
late to live life to its fullest.
A long time ago, Carter Chambers' (Morgan
Freeman) freshman year philosophy professor
suggested that his students compose a "bucket
list," a collection of all the things they wanted to do,
see and experience in life before they kicked the
bucket.
But while Carter was still trying to define his private
dreams and plans, reality intruded. Marriage,
children, myriad responsibilities and, ultimately, a
46-year job as an auto mechanic gradually turned
his concept of a bucket list into little more than a
bittersweet memory of lost opportunities and a
mental exercise he occasionally thought about to
pass the time while working under the hood of a car.
Meanwhile, corporate billionaire Edward Cole (Jack
Nicholson) never saw a list without a bottom line. He
was always too busy making money and building an
empire to think about what his deeper needs might
be beyond the next big acquisition or cup of gourmet
coffee.
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Then life delivered an urgent and unexpected wake-up call to both of them.
Carter and Edward found themselves sharing a hospital room with plenty of time to think about what
might happen next--and about how much of that was in their hands. For all their apparent differences,
they soon discovered they had two very important things in common: an unrealized need to come to
terms with who they were and the choices they'd made, and a pressing desire to spend the time they had
left doing everything they ever wanted to do.
The list wasn't just a mental exercise anymore. It was an agenda.
So, against doctor's orders and all good sense, these two virtual strangers check themselves out of the
hospital and hit the road together for the adventure of a lifetime--from the Taj Mahal to the Serengeti, the
finest restaurants to the seediest tattoo parlors, the cockpit of vintage race cars to the open door of a
prop plane--with just a sheet of paper and their passion for life to guide them.
Adding and crossing items off their list while taking in the grandeur and beauty of the world, they will
grapple with the difficult questions and the even more difficult answers that plague all of us. And, without
even realizing it, become true friends. With humor, insight, heart...and a fair amount of attitude.
Sometimes you just need a deadline to get your life in gear.
--© Warner Bros.
Carter and Edward found themselves sharing a hospital room with plenty of time to think about what
might happen next--and about how much of that was in their hands. For all their apparent differences,
they soon discovered they had two very important things in common: an unrealized need to come to
terms with who they were and the choices they'd made, and a pressing desire to spend the time they had
left doing everything they ever wanted to do.
The list wasn't just a mental exercise anymore. It was an agenda.
So, against doctor's orders and all good sense, these two virtual strangers check themselves out of the
hospital and hit the road together for the adventure of a lifetime--from the Taj Mahal to the Serengeti, the
finest restaurants to the seediest tattoo parlors, the cockpit of vintage race cars to the open door of a
prop plane--with just a sheet of paper and their passion for life to guide them.
Adding and crossing items off their list while taking in the grandeur and beauty of the world, they will
grapple with the difficult questions and the even more difficult answers that plague all of us. And, without
even realizing it, become true friends. With humor, insight, heart...and a fair amount of attitude.
Sometimes you just need a deadline to get your life in gear.
--© Warner Bros.