2007 · drama · comedy · music
The Bucket List
Directed by Rob Reiner1h 37m2007
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.
Our read: The Bucket List (2007) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded drama · comedy · music entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured drama / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, tender.
- warm
- brisk
- tender
- funny
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