I liked the synopsis of "
The Bucket List" as it was written in the DVD cover and bought it, I thought it would be a nice movie but in the meantime I got busy it lied for more than three weeks, some how I could watch this movie today.
As I expected, this is a nice movie, specially few lines from this movie will touch your heart.
This movie remind me a book, can't remember its name, I read it long back where an author had listed his life according to his age and made such list that he would do that and this and tried to inspire the reader to work list oriented activity throughout one's life. It inspire those who says its the end but just a beginning, if you want to get and give joy out of your life, its never the late.
Synopsis
Blue-collar mechanic Carter Chambers (Morgan Freeman) and billionaire hospital magnate Edward Cole (Jack Nicholson) meet for the first time in the hospital after both have been diagnosed with cancer. They become friends as they undergo their respective treatments. Carter is a brilliant historian and family man who had wanted to become a history professor, but in his youth had been "broke, black, and with a baby on the way" and thus never rose above his job at the McCreath (named after a healthcare consultant and friend of the writer) body shop. Cole is an eccentric loner, four times divorced, who enjoys nothing more than tormenting his personal valet/servant, Matthew, whom he calls Thomas (Sean Hayes).
Both are diagnosed with a year or less to live. Carter begins writing a "bucket list," or things to do before "he kicks the bucket." While not a serious list of intentions, he is goaded into going through with it when Cole discovers the list. Cole pushes Carter, and promises to pay for everything. Despite the protests of his wife, Virginia (Beverly Todd), Carter agrees.
The pair then begin an around-the-world vacation, embarking on everything from race car driving to sky diving to climbing the Pyramids to hunting lions in Africa. Along the way they discuss faith and family, and learn from each other that Carter has long been feeling less in love with his wife and Cole is deeply hurt by his estrangement with his only daughter, who disowned him after he ran off her abusive husband.
As they criss-cross the entire globe, Carter finds that the love he had for his wife is still strong. He asks to return home, and in gratitude for helping him, he tries to reunite Cole with his daughter, but Cole lacks the courage to face her. He angrily storms off and Carter returns home to his wife, children, and grandchildren.
The family reunion is short lived. Carter relapses and is rushed back to the hospital. The cancer has spread to his brain. Cole, who is now in complete remission, visits him there, and they share a few moments together. Carter insists Cole finish the list without him. Carter then goes into surgery, but the procedure is unsuccessful and he dies on the table. Cole delivers a eulogy at his funeral, and finds the strength to face his daughter. Much to his surprise and joy, she not only accepts him back into her life, but she also introduces him to the grand-daughter he never knew he had.
Cole goes on to live for several more years. When he finally passes away, he has his ashes, which were placed inside a Chock Full o' Nuts coffee can, buried alongside Carter's, also in the same type of can, on the top of Mount Everest, which Carter (who has been narrating the film) mentions that Cole would have liked, as it was against the law. Thomas, Cole's assistant does this and as he does so he crosses off the last item on the Bucket List (witness something truly majestic) and buries it with them.
It must be noted that there is a certain irony pertaining to the coffee can. In the beginning of the movie, one can see Carter flick the ashes from his cigarette into a Chock Full o' Nuts can in the body shop, just before he receives the call that informs him he has lung cancer.
Production Status: Released
Genres: Action/Adventure, Comedy and Drama
Running Time: 1 hr. 37 min.
Release Date: December 25th, 2007 (limited); January 11th, 2008 (wide)
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for language, including a sexual reference.
Distributors: Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution
Production Co.: Two Ton Films, Storyline Entertainment, Zadan/Meron Productions
Studios: Warner Bros. Pictures
U.S. Box Office: $81,654,211
Filming Locations: Los Angeles, California
Produced in: United States
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