Here we are again then, happy as can be......... Well, as happy as the last batch of films has made us, and as they have been hard hitting thrillers, that isn't too happy, is it?
So to a change of mood tonight, a change of pace, a change of direction. I initially said tonight's film was a comedy, but after seeing it, I'm not so sure. Maybe a tragi-comedy. Whatever, the film was the absolutely brilliant;
The Bucket List
The Bucket List follows the story of two terminally ill men, from different backgrounds, stuck together in the same hospital room, battling their illness. Although from completely different backgrounds, they soon form a bond, bought together by their individual cancers.
After several highs and lows in the hospital, the idea of a bucket list forms; a list of things to do before they kick the bucket.
Jack Nicholson plays the corporate billionaire Edward Cole, whilst Morgan Freeman plays the humble backstreet mechanic, Carter Chambers.
After hatching the plan to carry out the items on their joint bucket list, they leave the hospital and with reliance on Cole's millions jet off around the world doing the things that they have always wanted to do, for instance; go sky diving, drive classic cars, go on safari, see the wonders of the world.
However, it's not the so-say easy things that they set out to do, that makes this film, it's the obscure things, like; help a complete stranger, laugh until you cry, or kiss the most beautiful girl in the world. (Watch out for that last one, it's a killer and I defy even the most stone hearted individual not to feel a pang of emotion).
The Bucket List takes the most heart wrenching of situations and turns it into an uplifting and rewarding story.
Jack Nicholson is absolutely superb, as the cold hearted Edward Cole and Morgan Freeman is in tip top form as Carter. Special note should be made too, for Sean Hayes who plays Thomas, Edwards Coles' much maligned personal assistant, who gives as good as he gets, in a very polite manner.
The Bucket List will go down as one of our favourite Tuesday Night is Film Night films. It will hav you in tears of laughter and sorrow.
10 out of 10.
And can I adopt Morgan Freeman to be my Grandad?
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