Jack Nicholson, Morgan Freeman, Sean Hayes
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: ...( read more
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DVD Release Date: June 10, 2008
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Stats: 24,158 reviews
Flixster Reviews (24,158)
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October 1, 2009A sweet and sentimental film. Put your fingers in the sides of your mouth and say bucket!
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June 1, 2009This is a pretty good movie. Deals with life and death, friendship and getting through your bucket list before you die. It is a great movie for the two experienced actors - Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson.
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April 18, 2009A very thoughtout movie, Jack and Morgan play exceptional parts as two cancer sufferers, Morgan being normal wages citizen, Jack being the owner of the hospital that they are staying in, follow in their footsteps to achieve all the tasks that they never really got around to durin...( read more)
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March 21, 2009I liked the fact that both actors were playing roles suited for their age. It made the film a lot more enjoyable. The film was good until the film started skipping half way through obviously no fault to the actual film.
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November 17, 2009we need know "who am I, what I want" always if our life will not be close yet. tell your mind anyone always.....
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November 15, 2009Here is a film that means well and trips head over foot on its own eagerness to please. This is a tearjerker, not without a scintilla of attempts at humor, that exists in some Hollywood-generated alternate universe where things that are impossible not only can and do happen, but ...( read more)
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November 15, 2009Two is not always better than one. In someway, two greatest actors the world has ever seen in a single movie, made the movie weak according to me. One of these guys with another actor with a lesser presence would have been better.
Critic Reviews
January 11, 2008
Kurt Loder, MTV
January 11, 2008
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
The movie is caught in the crossfire of its two missions -- to celebrate the universal things that "really matter" in life (friendship, family) and to celebrate what it means to live like Jack Nicholson. full review
January 11, 2008
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle
Not every film about death needs a bald Swede and a game of chess: Sometimes, the sky-diving's enough. full review
January 11, 2008
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
I urgently advise hospitals: Do not make the DVD available to your patients; there may be an outbreak of bedpans thrown at TV screens. full review
January 10, 2008
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune
Great actors sometimes transcend their material, but Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman can't pull their boots free from the ankle-deep schmaltz of The Bucket List. full review
December 26, 2007
Kyle Smith, New York Post
The eternal human struggle for answers is an unusually resonant chord for a big-budget studio movie to strike. full review
December 25, 2007
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
The message of The Bucket List is that we should stop and smell the roses, count our blessings, hug someone we love, before it's too late. That's an audacious demand, coming from a movie that squeezes... full review
December 21, 2007
Pete Hammond, Maxim
Despite the AARP factor, audiences of all types will probably love this film for what it says about our own mortality and how we handle it. full review
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May 6, 2009I caught this sweet moving film and Love it! It makes one evaluate what is most important about Life. Even if one a person talks to a stranger for only a few moments, it becomes a lifetime of Learning.
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January 4, 2009(2007 Director: Rob Reiner)
Here is true irony! Lovely tale though sad of Nicholson and Freeman who meet in the Oncology Ward--2 patients living their end days/months with gusto and compiling their own individual, unique bucket lists.....Tho a most unusual pairing 2 men of different race and social status share the common link of a terminal diagnosis. the result? a most moving film I watched in the last month or 2 before my own father's passing. Memorable!!
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August 24, 2008This movie is amazing and i love Morgan Freeman. I cryed like a baby hehe
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July 25, 2008I like this movie to me it was very touching. It taught me to enjoy life while I am still living! I will now charish every moment I live and every breath I take! God gives to us every day and we need to learn to respect what he has given us and quit asking for more!
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July 20, 2008Amazingly touching movie !, very sad & a tear jerker :'-( ...a thought provoking movie for sure ! ...totally loved it. Must see ! Enjoy ;-)
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June 13, 2008I Just Absolutely LOVE This Movie !!! That Shows The Exact Meaning Of Live Your Life To The Fullest, For No One Holds The Promise Of Tomorrow! I Cried!
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December 23, 2007Here's mine!
1. Experience a moment of true satisfaction
2. Buy my own house/apartment
3. Write an article for a major publication
4. Live in Asia for a year
5. Go to the Oscars/Emmy's -
December 21, 2007here is my bucket list.
1. visit all seven wonders of the world in the span of a week
2. in one summer, visit all the major league baseball stadiums
3. go sky diving
4. go hang gliding
5. take a cross country trip from the east coast to California
6. build a car from scratch
7. write an issue of Action Comics, Amazing Spider-Man,Daredevil, Hulk or All Star Batman and Robin
8. sail to the caribbean
9. pilot an airplane
10. visit the grand canyon
11. visit Egypt
12. Attend a Super Bowl
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