The Bucket List (DVD)

This tender, bittersweet comedy drama is one of those rare masterpieces that manages to tug at your heart strings one moment and make you laugh and smile the next. As two cancer patients who meet in a hospital room, Nicholson and Freeman are magnificent, first starting out as disliking each other, but soon forming a common bond due to their common experience as cancer patients.

When they both receive bad news with no hope for recovery, they hatch a plan to live the rest of their life to the fullest. This might seem like a simple story, but it's anything but predictable. The story takes many unexpected turns, and you'd be hard-pressed to find better performances from a duo who surprisingly have never acted together before. The chemistry of the two leads are electric, and you soon see them as best friends.

With the subject matter, is not hard to figure out where the story is heading, but it's still handled in a touchingly beautiful manner. This film should serve as a reminder to all, to try and accomplish goals, whether big or small, and to never give up on a dream, even if you need a helping hand along on the way to achieve it. Magnificently majestic! (5 out of 5, by Carlisle Johnson)

Corporate billionaire Edward Cole (Jack Nicholson) and working class mechanic Carter Chambers (Morgan Freeman) are worlds apart. At a crossroads in their lives, they share a hospital room and discover they have two things in common: a desire to spend the time they have left doing everything they ever wanted to do before they "kick the bucket" and an unrealized need to come to terms with who they are.

Together they embark on the road trip of a lifetime, becoming friends along the way and learning to live life to the fullest, with insight and humor.

Each adventure adds another check to their list.

General

Studio:	Warner Brothers Pictures
Country of origin:	South Africa
Release date:	June 2008
Actors:	Jack Nicholson • Morgan Freeman
Dimensions:	192 x 137 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:
Running time:	1 hour, 33 minutes
Region encoding:	Region 2. This DVD will play in all South African DVD players.
Audio format:	Dolby Digital 5.1
Video format:	Widescreen 16:9 (1.78:1)
Age restriction:	13 PGL
Categories:	DVD > Comedy DVD > Drama DVD > Feature Film
LSN:	X6C-2FP-4FH-6
Barcode:	6003805085504

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Tue, 25 Nov 2008 | Review by: Micky B

In years still to come, I believe that this picture will come to be revered alongside other classical greats, like Mr Roberts; Sleuth; The Odd Couple; Grumpy Old Men, etc. The late, great Sir Laurence Olivier acknowledged the late Spencer Tracy as being the greatest screen actor in the world - and many feel that Morgan Freeman is now worthy to don Mr Tracy's mantle. Who am I to disagree? And like him or hate him: Jack Nicholson is never boring. So the pitting of these two together had to come sometime. This movie is the ideal vehicle in which for it to have taken place! Freeman is Carter Chambers, a humble but honest mechanic. Smiley Jack is an eccentric billionaire, and owner of the hospital the two men find themselves in - both with incurable diseases, and only limited time in which to live. The title refers to the "wish list" of things the two men still want to achieve before they pass on. It is both extremely moving, and at the same time very funny indeed. So if you haven't already seen it: do so NOW! (Of course, both men wish their ashes to be buried atop Mt Everest)

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