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The Bucket List

The Bucket List has Rob Reiner directing two of Hollywood’s biggest heavyweights - Morgan Freeman who is in everything and Jack Nicholson who isn’t in nearly enough. Nicholson is Edward Cole whose lavish lifestyle ironically hits a wall when chemotherapy forces him to conform to the indignity of the rules of his own chain of private hospitals. His first commandment is two patients to a room, no exceptions and thus is stuck for an extended period sharing a confined space with Freeman playing the blue collar Carter Chambers who has a head chocked full of trivia which he’s not shy about sharing. This causes his room mate more nausea than the chemo but eventually they grow close and Chambers introduces Cole to the idea of making a list of activities to be done before “kicking the bucket”. Kudos to Sean Hayes who in the presence of these two masters wisely puts his manic Jack McFarland character away and delivers a subdued supporting role as Thomas, Cole’s flunky. Predictably when the two are released they embark on a worldly adventure trek but exotic locations and an unpredictable twist keeps The Bucket List from going “pale”. This movie is “well” worth it

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