The Bucket List Page #5

Synopsis: Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers have nothing in common except for their terminal illnesses. While sharing a hospital room together, they decide to leave it and do all the things they have ever wanted to do before they die according to their bucket list. In the process, both of them heal each other, become unlikely friends, and ultimately find joy in life.
Director(s): Rob Reiner
Production: Warner Bros. Pictures
  3 wins & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Metacritic:
42
Rotten Tomatoes:
40%
PG-13
Year:
2007
97 min
$93,500,000
Website
9,654 Views


Thank you!

Edward?

Edward...

There was a survey once...

A 1000 people when asked, if they

could know in advance...

would they want to know the exact day

of their death.

I always kind of leaned, toward the other 4%.

I thought, it would be of liberating.

Knowing, how much time, we had

left to work with.

It turns out, it's not.

You wanna play cards?

I thought you'd never ask.

Rise and shine.

Not that.

Let me see that.

And ah... Thomas, call Marie at Christies,

tell her, I wont be bidding this season.

I understand.

And ah... Sir, I don't mean to sound

indelicate, but...

how do you want me to handle your...?

Death?

Treat it, as if it were your own.

So... leave all the money to my assistant.

Go get me one of those croissants.

And don't buy any green bananas.

- What're you doing?

- What is this?

- Come on, give it back.

- What is it?

Give it back!

It was on the floor,

I didn't know, it was a state secret.

My fresh mens philosopher,

assigned this exercise...

In forward thinking...

he called it a bucket list.

We're suppose to make a list of all the things

we wanted to do in our lives, before...

Before we kick the bucket...

cutesy...

Anyway, I wrote down things like, make a

million dollars, first black president.

You know, young man's wishes...

But now it's gone, through with these...

Help a complete stranger for the good.

Laugh until I cry.

Not to be judge mental, but this is extremely weak

Well...

it's pointless now.

I would argue the exact opposite.

- What're doing?

- A little rewrite, that's all.

I mean, don't you wanna go out with some balls?

Guns blazing, have a little fun?

It's not suppose to be, about guns blazing,

anything like that, you're missing the point.

What the hell, is with doing something majestic?

Have you ever been to the Himalaya's?

Drive Mustang Shelby, not bad.

I've got one.

How about, sky diving?

Now we're on to something.

We're on to something? Let me see...

Kiss the most beautiful girl in the world.

- How you propose doing that?

- Volume.

Get a tattoo.

Is that the sum of your ambition?

Edward I've taking baths, deeper than you.

It's easy to be deep and fresh in philosophy.

What's Dr. Hahn say?

We've got months, right?

- A year, maybe.

- You think 45 years went by fast?

We can do this... we should do this.

- No, I... I...

- Don't think about money.

That's all I got, is money.

- But... I don't know.

- What don't you know?

It was meant to be metaphorical.

- Just trying to get a handle...

- Blah... blah... blah

Metaphorical, you're the one crying,

you never took a shot?

- Here's your chance.

- My chance to what?

Make a fool of myself?

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Justin Zackham

Justin Zackham is an American and British screenwriter, director and producer. He wrote the hit films The Bucket List, One Chance, and the FX series Lights Out, and The Big Wedding, which he also directed. more…

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