![]() From there, the film takes a turn into clichéd sentimentality as the two devise a plan to write a "bucket list" of ten things to do before they "kick the bucket". The film gets off to a good start as we see the two characters, at first wary of each other, slowly let their guards down as their physical strength falls away and they begin to bond with one another. The two men meet in the cancer ward of a Los Angeles hospital as they are both undergoing chemotherapy. Jack Nicholson plays the brash billionaire Edward Cole, and Morgan Freeman the wise, blue-collar mechanic, Carter Chambers. Bravo to Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman bravo! They have taken an unapologetically maudlin and unlikely screenplay by Justin Zackham directed with no sense of delicacy or wisdom by Rob Reiner and turned in two exceptional performances - even if they were only playing character types we've seen them play a dozen times over.
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