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7.2Corporate 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.
Cast
- Jack Nicholson as Edward Periman Cole
- Morgan Freeman as Carter Chambers
- Sean Hayes as Thomas
- Beverly Todd as Virginia Chambers
- Alfonso Freeman as Roger Chambers
- Dawn Lewis as Flight Attendant
Themes
- dying and death
- friendship
- husband wife relationship
- himalaya mountain range
- parent child relationship
- brain tumor
- africa
- journey around the world
- sense of life
- safari
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Ratings
IMDb
7.3/10
270,811 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
40%
Metacritic
42/100
- Year
- 2007
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Genres
- Adventure, Comedy, Drama
- Rated
- PG-13
- Awards
- 3 wins & 4 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Rob Reiner
- Written by
- Justin Zackham
- Produced by
- Craig Zadan Neil Meron Alan Greisman Rob Reiner
- Starring
- Jack Nicholson Morgan Freeman Sean Hayes Rob Morrow
- Cinematography
- John Schwartzman
- Edited by
- Robert Leighton
- Music by
- Marc Shaiman
- Production companies
- Zadan/Meron Productions , Reiner/Greisman Productions
- Distributed by
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- Release dates
- December 15, 2007 ( 2007-12-15 ) ( Hollywood ) December 25, 2007 ( 2007-12-25 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 97 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $45 million
- Box office
- $175.4 million
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Encyclopedic overview
The Bucket List is a 2007 American buddy comedy-drama film directed and produced by Rob Reiner, written by Justin Zackham, and starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. The main plot follows two terminally ill men on their road trip with a wish list of things to do before they "kick the bucket".
Zackham coined the expression "bucket list" after he wrote his own "List of Things to do Before I Kick the Bucket" and shortened it to "Justin's Bucket List". The first item on his list was to "get a film made at a major studio". This list gave him the idea for the screenplay, and The Bucket List became his first studio film.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Bucket List” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.