Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves; regret for the past and fear of the future. If we spend our time with regrets over yesterday and worries over what might happen tomorrow, we have no today in which to live. Find the joy!
The Bucket List is an American comedy drama film directed by Rob Reiner released in 2007. The story tells two terminally ill cancer patients who decide to break out of the hospital and live their last days to the fullest with a wish list of things to do before they "kick the bucket".
Corporate irascible billionaire Edward Cole (Jack Nicholson) and working class scholarly mechanic Carter Chambers (Morgan Freeman) have nothing in common except for their terminal illnesses (both have been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer). The quiet mechanic, Carter has been faithfully married for forty-five years to his beloved wife Virginia (Beverly Todd) and has three children. The caustic and bitter billionaire Edward owns many hospitals, has been through his fair share of divorces and has one missing daughter. Following Edward's work ethics, his hospital puts him in the same room as Carter rather than give him a private room during his stay.
Though initially the pair seems to have nothing in common but after one morning, Edward finds Carter's 'bucket list' on the floor when Carter tosses it before the night after hearing he has less than a year to live. Edward includes his own items on the list and urges Carter to do everything on the list together with him and offers to finance the trip for the both of them. Despite the protest of his wife, Carter agrees and begins an around-the-world vacation with Edward and both of them become unlikely friends.
They go skydiving together, drive a Shelby Mustang, fly over the North Pole, eat dinner at Chevre d'Or in France, visit and praise the beauty and history of Taj Mahal, India, ride motorcycles on the Great Wall of China, playing the poker tables in Monte Carlo and attend a lion safari in Africa. Atop the Great Pyramid, looking out over the pyramids of Khafre and Menkaure, they confide about faith and family, revealing that Carter has long been feeling less in love with his wife and that Edward is deeply hurt by his estrangement from his only daughter who disowned him after he drove away her abusive husband.
In Hong Kong, Edward hires a prostitute for Carter who has never had sex with any woman but his wife. Carter declines, realizing that he loves his wife and asks to return home. On their way back home, Carter reciprocates by trying to reunite Edward with his daughter but Edward angrily storms off and Carter returns home to his wife, children and grandchildren. The family reunion for Carter is short-lived when he suffers a seizure and is rushed to the hospital. Carter dies on the operating table after an unsuccessful surgery and leaving Edward to finish the list without him.
Later in the film, Edward finally attempt to reconcile with his daughter who not only accepts him back into her life but also introduces him to the granddaughter he never knew. After greeting the little girl with a kiss on the cheek, Edward crosses "kiss the most beautiful girl in the world" off the list.
In the epilogue, it is revealed that Edward lived until the age of eighty-one and his ashes are brought to the top of the Himalayas by his assistant and alongside a can containing Carter's. In the final lines of the film, Carter explains, "I'm pretty sure he (Edward) was happy with his final resting place. Because he was buried on the mountain and that was against the law."
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Corporate irascible billionaire Edward Cole (Jack Nicholson) and working class scholarly mechanic Carter Chambers (Morgan Freeman) have nothing in common except for their terminal illnesses (both have been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer). The quiet mechanic, Carter has been faithfully married for forty-five years to his beloved wife Virginia (Beverly Todd) and has three children. The caustic and bitter billionaire Edward owns many hospitals, has been through his fair share of divorces and has one missing daughter. Following Edward's work ethics, his hospital puts him in the same room as Carter rather than give him a private room during his stay.
Though initially the pair seems to have nothing in common but after one morning, Edward finds Carter's 'bucket list' on the floor when Carter tosses it before the night after hearing he has less than a year to live. Edward includes his own items on the list and urges Carter to do everything on the list together with him and offers to finance the trip for the both of them. Despite the protest of his wife, Carter agrees and begins an around-the-world vacation with Edward and both of them become unlikely friends.
They go skydiving together, drive a Shelby Mustang, fly over the North Pole, eat dinner at Chevre d'Or in France, visit and praise the beauty and history of Taj Mahal, India, ride motorcycles on the Great Wall of China, playing the poker tables in Monte Carlo and attend a lion safari in Africa. Atop the Great Pyramid, looking out over the pyramids of Khafre and Menkaure, they confide about faith and family, revealing that Carter has long been feeling less in love with his wife and that Edward is deeply hurt by his estrangement from his only daughter who disowned him after he drove away her abusive husband.
In Hong Kong, Edward hires a prostitute for Carter who has never had sex with any woman but his wife. Carter declines, realizing that he loves his wife and asks to return home. On their way back home, Carter reciprocates by trying to reunite Edward with his daughter but Edward angrily storms off and Carter returns home to his wife, children and grandchildren. The family reunion for Carter is short-lived when he suffers a seizure and is rushed to the hospital. Carter dies on the operating table after an unsuccessful surgery and leaving Edward to finish the list without him.
Later in the film, Edward finally attempt to reconcile with his daughter who not only accepts him back into her life but also introduces him to the granddaughter he never knew. After greeting the little girl with a kiss on the cheek, Edward crosses "kiss the most beautiful girl in the world" off the list.
In the epilogue, it is revealed that Edward lived until the age of eighty-one and his ashes are brought to the top of the Himalayas by his assistant and alongside a can containing Carter's. In the final lines of the film, Carter explains, "I'm pretty sure he (Edward) was happy with his final resting place. Because he was buried on the mountain and that was against the law."
Life is too short to wake up with regrets.
Love the people who treat you right.
Forget about the ones who don’t.
Believe everything happens for a reason.
If you get a second chance, grab it with both hands.
If it changes your life, let it.
Nobody said life would be easy.
They just promised it would be worth it.
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