The Bucket List [Blu-ray]

The Bucket List [Blu-ray]

The Bucket List [Blu-ray]

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Actor: Jack Nicholson, Morgan Freeman
Brand: Warner Brothers
Blu-ray: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 97 minutes
Blu-ray Release Date: 2008-06-10
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Home Video
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You only live once, so why not go out in style? That?s what two cancer- ward roommates, an irascible billionaire (Jack Nicholson) and a scholarly mechanic (Morgan Freeman), decide when they get the bad news. They compose a bucket list ? things to do before you kick the bucket ? and head off for the around-the-world adventure of their lives. Sky dive? Check. Power a Shelby Mustang around a racetrac

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Movie Review: Bring some joy into your life
Summary: 5 Stars

Two men in their seventies from utterly different backgrounds share the same hospital room in LA - and they both have forms of cancer that give them less than a year to live. When both go into remission they set off on an odyssey of indulgence doing things that they had always wanted to do, but had until now neither the time or opportunity to realise such dreams.

When you have two of Hollywood's most talented senior statesmen working around a story as touching as this combined with such expert direction and production design, it's almost inevitable that the result is a treat, for that is what it turned out to be. Nicholson plays an atheistic billionaire businessman, often married but with little to smile about even before his medical diagnosis. Freeman plays a God-fearing car-mechanic with a close and loving family whose only regret is a life-long frustration at not achieving the heights he once aspired to as a young man, having unselfishly put his family's security before his own desires. Nicholson provides most of the cynical black humour, Freeman the loyalty to his wife, religious faith and righteous philosophies. It's billed as a comedy drama but it's more than that; in fact it can be almost anything the viewer wants it to be, because I would suggest that different people seeing this film will take different meanings and memories away with them, depending on their point of view. The title of the film is not attractive but it is to the point: these two men draw up a list of wild or wonderful things to do before they kick the bucket. In some way it's a mini epic inasfar as the geographic span the film covers, because although the first half-hour or so is spent in a small hospital room, much of the rest is spent skydiving, racing cars and travelling to the south of France, the Pyramids of Egypt, on safari in Tanzania, at the Taj Mahal in India, up Mount Everest in Nepal, along the Great Wall of China and eventually in Hong Kong. Each location was chosen so that one or other of the two men could face up to a specific facet of life, and as one of them comments at the beginning and again at the end, the short time they spent together was a greater adventure than most experience in a whole lifetime.

It is, of course, just a story for the purpose of entertainment but I thought there were plenty of issues to make us all ponder about our own mortality, and perhaps in particular the two things we should aim for while we are here: to have joy in our lives, and to bring joy into the lives of those around us. It's easy to be as cynical about such ideals as Nicholson's character is about love, money and religion but if you accept it, keep an open mind, then there is plenty of joy to be taken out of this film. Despite the ostensibly sad subject - terminal cancer - there is actually very little sadness itself here, instead it is mainly thought-provoking, amusing and in many ways uplifting.

The extras on the DVD include something I personally have never seen before - a full-length re-run of the whole film with regular 'post-it' style notes on screen providing snippets of information about the actors' real lives, the locations, the special effects and much more. It was so interesting I just had to watch this film again immediately after the first run, and I can't remember the last time I had a DVD and felt willing and able to do that! Indeed I don't often give out the full 5 stars for DVDs but in this instance I have no hesitation. It's a gem and will live long in the memory.

In summary: a funny, moving and intelligently written film that entertains in many different ways. Worth buying, not just renting, as you might want to see it several times.

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Summary of The Bucket List [Blu-ray]

You only live once, so why not go out in style? That?s what two cancer- ward roommates, an irascible billionaire (Jack Nicholson) and a scholarly mechanic (Morgan Freeman), decide when they get the bad news. They compose a bucket list ? things to do before you kick the bucket ? and head off for the around-the-world adventure of their lives. Sky dive? Check. Power a Shelby Mustang around a racetrack? Check. Gaze at the Great Pyramid of Khufu? Check. Discover the joy in their lives before it?s too late? Check! Under the nimble direction of Rob Reiner, the two great stars provide the heart and soul, wit and wiles of this inspired salute to life that proves that the best time of all is right now.

"You measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you," says the quietly wise Carter Chambers, played with gravitas and grace by a Morgan Freeman. In Rob Reiner's moving, often hilarious film The Bucket List, all sorts of people measure themselves against the two heroes, Chambers and his hospital suitemate, Edward Cole (Jack Nicholson). But as Cole finds, having spent his entire life building a Fortune 500 company, none of that much matters when cancer, the great equalizer, pays a visit. The film traces the adventures of the two unlikely friends, who meet in a hospital cancer ward, each given six months to live. The "bucket list" of the title refers to a lifelong list of goals that a teacher of Chambers once advised him to compile--and achieve--"before you kick the bucket." Soon the two are off on what may be the last grand adventure of their life, vowing to tick off as many goals (skydiving, race-car driving, seeing the wonders of the world) as they can in the time they have left. What starts as a medical melodrama becomes a road trip, yet the men's mortality realities are never far from thought. The two leads give impressive performances, and remind the viewer of just how few American films focus on the lives and loves of senior citizens. Nicholson even manages to lose his persona in his character, much as he did in About Schmidt. There's a lovely John Mayer tune, "Say (What You Need to Say)," that's perfectly matched to the film's clear-eyed view of life: What does one person leave behind as his true legacy? --A.T. Hurley

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