Carter is preparing a bucket list, which is the things you think that you must do before you kick the bucket or die. In other words, Edward’s tough, miserly, Scrooge-like policies have finally turned on him.Īfter heavy chemotherapy, Edward starts opening up to Carter. Edward wants his own room, but his assistant, Matthew, whom Edward calls Thomas or Phil or anything but his right name just to demean him, tells him Edward that he can’t have his own room, because it would be a PR blunder.
Carter is a genius and a man of faith, but an early marriage and family responsibilities kept him from getting his degree and kept him working as a mechanic. Well, when Edward starts coughing up blood, he’s brought into his own hospital, only to find a black man named Carter Chambers in the next bed. At a hearing about how his hospitals are run, he makes the point that if you have good doctors, you don’t need a lot of them (so he can be understaffed) and that he has two beds in every room because it’s a hospital, not a spa. Jack Nicholson plays Edward Cole, a very wealthy man who owns, among other things, hospitals. THE BUCKET LIST is the Odd Couple at the end of their life.
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(BB, CC, H, Ab, FR, PaPa, LLL, VV, S, N, A, D, MM) Ultimately strong moral worldview with some clear Christian elements, such as atheist cries out to Jesus in a chemotherapy stupor and African-American family prays to God the Father in clear terms, but atheist humanist attacks Christianity and bashes other religions, such as Buddhism, and religious concepts, such as reincarnation, but believer tries to defend his Christian faith but never as clearly as he could, though there seems to be some false works theology, plus a lot of discussion of other religions, including ancient Egyptian practices for getting into Heaven 30 obscenities and 12 strong profanities, primarily by atheist character violent operations on people, man falls off hospital bed, scary skydiving scene, and talk about committing suicide and dying lots of discussion about sex, man gets propositioned to have sex with call girl, wealthy man talks about arranging an orgy, wealthy man comes out of aircraft bathroom with stewardess buttoning up her blouse upper male nudity but no sexual nudity heavy drinking smoking leads to cancer and suggestion of drugs and, marital tensions, marriage mocked and dictatorial millionaire is mean to everyone.
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The movie struggles with communicating the Christian faith, but it constantly tries to tell the Edward Coles of the world that there is a God who can give us true joy. The story and script would have played better without these elements and without some of the moral lapses in Morgan Freeman’s mostly positive character. Regrettably, there are some serious moral lapses and plenty of strong foul language. THE BUCKET LIST is very funny with some great moral moments. The two men escape the cancer ward to do their bucket list, and Carter tries to encourage Edward to be a better person. Carter encourages Edward to write a bucket list of all the things to do before you die. After intense chemotherapy, Edward opens up to Carter. Carter is a smart man of faith, but family responsibilities kept him from pursuing his dreams. When Edward starts coughing up blood, he’s brought into his own hospital, only to find a black man named Carter Chambers in the next bed. THE BUCKET LIST stars Jack Nicholson as Edward Cole, a miserly millionaire who owns hospitals, where there are no rooms with single sickbeds.