What would you do if you found out you had less than a year to live? How would you spend your remaining days? The Bucket List explores these kinds of questions as it deals with two men, Carter (Morgan Freeman) and Edward (Jack Nicholson) who just got some bad news. They've got cancer and have less than a year to live. During their visit for treatment, they meet while sharing the same hospital room. Edward is a crass rich guy and Carter is the more conservative family man. While in the hospital, Carter writes down a "bucket list", a list of things he wants to do before he dies. Edward accidentally stumbles upon the list and thinks that Carter needs to "spice it up" a bit. Edward thinks they should go out with a bang. Being the wealthy guy that he is, he modifies the list and offers to pay for all the expenses on things like skydiving and traveling the world. At first Carter objects, but he eventually gives in. As the movie goes on, you'd see that both have something to learn from each other as they develop a strong friendship, while providing much laughter throughout the film. As you'd expect from these veteran actors, their performances were great as they played these two men about to face death. And in facing death, they really learned how to live. That's something we all could learn from.
The Bucket List is out now on DVD.
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