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What happens when you put Oscar Winners Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman together with Oscar Nominated writer and director Rob Reiner? Pure Brilliance.

Edward Cole (Jack Nicholson) is a hard talking but incredibly clever hospital owner, he works hard and plays harder. If he is disturbed, it better be for something good, after all he could be having sex with Michelle Pfeiffer (not actually in the film but referenced on numerous occasions). One day Edward is not feeling himself and finds that he becomes a patient in his own hospital.

Carter Chambers (Morgan Freeman) is a hardworking mechanic, for 40 years he has worked in a job that had little interest to him, simply so that he could provide for his family. There is light at the end of the tunnel however for Carter will soon be able to retire. But on one afternoon completely out of the blue Carter starts to bleed.

Two men from very different backgrounds bought together in a hospital room, the one thing they have in common however is that in 6 to 12 months they will both be dead. But this is where the bucket list comes into play; a bucket list is a series of things that you want or need to do before you "kick the bucket". Edward in particular has no intensions of going out gracefully, why should he when he can go out disgracefully, and of course taking Carter along for the ride.

The Bucket List is a lovely family movie that will no doubt become a classic of modern cinema. It has the feel of Terms Of Endearment with a Hint Of Driving Miss Daisy for good effect, and it's not just because it has actors from both movies, it's just a general feel the movie has about it. This is an emotional and moving tale that will drive a grown man to tears, and if it had not been for a rude interruption I'm sure I would have shed a few, or at least got watery eyed.

This is much like a two handed movie with Nicholson and Freeman taking control of the movie. Nicholson shows all the sides he had in both Witches Of Eastwick and As Good As It Get's, the latter movie having a lot of similar ground to The Bucket List. As ever like a rather mischievous child Nicholson often lights the wick and walks away to see what will happen, grinning from ear to ear rather like he did when he played The Joker in Batman. But there is a sad side to this, Nicholson a man who has dominated the press for years because of his ballooning weight has lost a considerable amount of it. And in the first portion of the movie as his character is operated on, and tested

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