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The Bucket List This is and excellent movie, with good acting and good comedy. I've always liked Jack Nicholson, and Morgan Freeman. The two of them make this movie great in my opinion. I would recomend this movie for all the family.
THIS IS A REAL GOOD MOVIE AND HAS A LOT OF LAUGHS IN IT AND ALSO SOME TEAR JERKER PARTS ALSO. GOOD ACTING BY BOTH ACTORS.
It makes one realize that life should be lived to the fullest. This is really funny. What would you do if you had a month to live and you has an unlimited supply of money. I loved it. So these two men are told they only have a month to live and they decide to do all the things in their life that they've never done. It is funny and makes you think about what you truly love and cherish in life. Jack Nicholson, and Morgan Freeman do a hilariously great job in The Bucket List.
Next they visited Monte Carlo, where they downed great amounts of Caviar and hit the tables. The story is the result of Morgan (Charles Chambers) remembering The BUCKET LIST Assignment from his Philosophy Teacher who asked his students to make a list of the things which they would try to accomplish before he "Kicked The Bucket." When Edward Cole found the list begun by his roommate Charles Chambers, they decided that was the best way they could spend their last days. They stayed in famous Hotels in the exotic cities of China & France, etc. Since Edward Cole was a wealthy Fortune 500 mogul who owned an interest in hospitals, they chose to attempt their list of things they had never done before.
Charles met his whole family for a big joint dinner with all of his children & grandchildren. First they wanted to sky dive out of a large plane. They did this and it was a huge thrill. Two of my favorite Actors, Morgan Freeman as a retired auto Mechanic and Jack Nicholson get acquainted as terminantly ill cancer patients. One of the most enduring was the visit that Charles described to a friend after climbing his memorial trip to the top of an ancient Tibetian mountain where he had experienced the most profound silence, so that he felt he heard the Voice of God. From there they saw the great Egyptian Pyramids.
When they returned home, they each celebrated. Edward meeting with his large board of Associates & Directors after he made a difficult, surprise visit, taking flowers to his only estranged daughter after years of silence.
The final scene of the Movie was the trip up to the top of that very mountain where he deposited the Urn of Charles' ashes. So both asked their Doctors to check them out of their room and their treatment.
The crowning scene of the whole story was the celebration of the Memorial Service of Charles' death, where Ed Cole gave the most touching Eulogy ever heard and felt for the man he only had known a few years, yet had given him new desires to stay alive. They tore up the road in two supercharged cars in reckless abandon at great speeds and enormous risks.
They visited Africa where they included the beautiful scenery and animals of a Safari. Part of Ed & Charles personal touch were the stories they shared.
An Amazing, Awesome, Magical story from two Giant Actors & Director, Rob Reiner.
Marriage, children, myriad responsibilities and, ultimately, a 46-year job as an auto mechanic 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. 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. A long time ago, Carter Chambers' 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. Then life delivered an urgent and unexpected wake-up call to both of them. What a gift. Meanwhile, corporate billionaire Edward Cole never saw a list without a bottom line. For all their apparent differences, they 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.
And, without even realizing it, become true friends. But while Carter was trying to define his private dreams and plans, reality intruded. Adding and crossing items off their list while taking in the grandeur and beauty of the world, they grapple with the difficult questions and the even more difficult answers that plague all of us. 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. 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. This movie is full of well-earned rueful humor. Two of the world's greatest actors come together and create movie magic.
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