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Name: The Bucket List
Director: Rob Reiner
Genre: comedy, drama
Released: 2007
Duration: 1 h 37 min
Rating: 7.3

The Bucket List has an iRankMovies score of 57.9/100, based on a weighted combination of IMDb (×3.0), Rotten Tomatoes (×2.0), Metacritic (×1.5), and TMDb (×1.0).

The Bucket List (2007)

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Release:2007

Runtime:1h 37m

Country:United States

Director:Rob Reiner

Language:English

Genre

ComedyDrama

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Keywords

Dying And DeathfriendshipHusband Wife RelationshipHimalaya Mountain RangeParent Child RelationshipBrain TumorAfricaJourney Around The World

iRank58

The Bucket List rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.3/10· 271K votes

Rotten Tomatoes40%

Metacritic42%

TMDb7.191/10· 4K votes

With 40% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.3/10 on IMDb and 42/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been modest.

About The Bucket List

Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers 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 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.

Cast of The Bucket List

Jack Nicholson
as Edward Periman Cole
Morgan Freeman
as Carter Chambers
Sean Hayes
as Thomas
Beverly Todd
as Virginia Chambers
Alfonso Freeman
as Roger Chambers
Dawn Lewis
as Flight Attendant
Rob Morrow
as Dr. Hollins
Brian Copeland
as Lee
Rowena King
as Angelica
A
Annton Berry Jr.
as Kai
D
Destiny Brownridge
as Maya
Verda Bridges
as Chandra

The Bucket List facts

Budget: $45M
Box office: $175.4M

Our take on The Bucket List

Rob Reiner's 2007 comedy-drama pairs a corporate billionaire with a working-class mechanic who meet as terminally ill roommates sharing a hospital room. What follows is a road trip built around a wish list, as two men from opposite worlds chase the experiences they postponed and quietly reckon with who they've become. Reiner keeps things warm and gently humorous rather than maudlin, leaning on the odd-couple chemistry and life-in-review reflection. It's an accessible, sentimental picture aimed at viewers who like character-led stories about friendship, mortality and second chances, and who don't mind a film that wears its emotions openly. Comfort viewing with a lump-in-the-throat streak.

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