Rob Reiner’s “The Bucket List” features Jack Nicholson as a cantankerous billionaire and Morgan Freeman as the winking, twinkling teller of truths. Neither role is a stretch for these actors; we have all seen this shtick before.
The movie kicks off with one of Morgan Freeman’s trademark “This is God speaking” wisdom-induced voiceovers. Edward Cole (Jack Nicholson), the rich SOB, and Carter Chambers, (Morgan Freeman) the car mechanic who once had aspirations of being a history professor, end up in the same room in the cancer ward of a hospital that Edward owns. Each of the men is given a dim prognosis, forecasting that each will be dead in under a year. Being forced to face their own mortality, the two end up writing a bucket list together-a list of things that they want to accomplish before they kick the proverbial bucket.
Some of the entries on their bucket list include: (read the rest of the review here)
