The Bucket List Page #4

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
9,904 Views


No.

- It's... it's just like professional.

- No.

I don't even have to be there.

Hello darling.

You're gonna drive it, or buy it a dress?

Just getting to know each other.

- You sure we're cleared for this?

- Of course, we're cleared for it.

- What if we werent?

- Just checking.

Come on, are you with me?

Let's see what she's got.

Ah... we're doing just fine.

You sound like some kid,

going to the junior prom.

You sound like someone,

looking for an ass whooping.

Ass whooping? Ho, ho, ho,

you've got nothing...

I got enough for you, Sonny Jim.

Take it.

Did you just make a penis reference?

What about this?

- Jesus, you're gonna kill us both.

- What did I do?

God damn it...

You're makin't... Evil on me.

Evil? I show you Evil... I show you Evil

god damn Knievel.

Pick up on this... Chicken man.

Chicken man, huh?

You can run, but you cannot hide.

What'd you wanna do next?

How much money do you have anyway?

Did anyone ever tell you, that it's rude,

to talk about someone else's money?

I never knew anyone, with enough to ask.

Medicinal.

It's undiscripably beautiful.

We're flying over the polar cap,

home of desolation.

The stars, it's really one of God's greatness.

So... you think a being of some sort,

did all this?

You don't?

You mean, do I believe, if I look up

in the sky and promise this or that...

That maybe... it make all this these go away?

No.

Then, 95% of people on earth, are wrong.

Life has thought me this, 95% of people

are always wrong.

It's called faith.

I honestly envy people, who have faith,

I just can't get my head around it.

Maybe your head's in the way.

Carter...

we can have hundreds of these discussions...

And everyone of them, always

hits the same wall.

Is there... a sugarplum fairy or not?

And nobody, has ever gotten over that wall.

Well... what do you believe?

I resist all faiths.

No 'Big Bang', no master of the universe?

We live and we die, and the wheels

on the bus go round and round.

What if... you're wrong?

I would love to be wrong, if I'm wrong, I win.

I'm not sure, if it works that way.

Carter, you're not claiming, you know

something, I don't?

No, I just have faith.

Hallelujah brother, and pass the mustard.

- You know how they harvest caviar, don't you?

- Hit me.

When the female sergeants is caught...

The fisherman has to take good care,

to see that she dies peacefully...

If she feels the least bid threatened, she

sprays a foul chemical, amongst the eggs.

Sounds like my third wife.

The woman thought Mayonnaise

came from a plant.

I could get used to this.

Also sounds like my third wife.

Thirty years, I've been coming here.

First time with a guy.

Well, I'm flattered.

Emily's tenth birthday was the best, though.

Who's Emily?

A little, ah...

Well, she's not so little anymore...

You have a daughter?

I thought you said...

Well... yea... when you know you're not...

To make a long story short.

I don't see her.

What're you doing?

It's time.

- No, no, no, cross that out.

- Why?

- Cross it off!

- Why?

Why? There is no why.

- What's a matter?

- Excuse me.

Where're you going?

Just like a broad.

Look... Carter.

I'm sorry, I know... sometimes I get

a little overbearing, and I...

- Jesus Christ.

- It's alright, listen, it's okay...

- What?

- Top of the cap, just came lose, that's all.

Oh, well, maybe we should get

you to a hospital.

- I just busted out of the hospital.

- Huh...

- It's alright, it already stopped, see... look.

- Yea...

- Look here... it's okay.

- I just was wondering...

Yea... huh...

- Maybe I should get ah... let's go straight to car...

- Let's go.

- Come on... come on.

- Okay.

- Where's... where's Tommy?

- He's here somewhere...

Oh, my...

How much money do you have?

Well, I wouldn't bleed on the rugs.

I'm gonna... I'm gonna find some place,

where I can take a nice hot bath.

- Be as good as new, afterwards.

- Yea, you should be okay.

Ok, just one second... okay.

Alright... it took some doing,

but I rearranged everything.

Cairo tomorrow, Tanzania for two days,

then Johannesburg on Saturday.

And as previously directed, no

bullfight, no tiger hunt.

Thomas... I really like to say,

you're irreplaceable.

But, I be lying.

And I really like to say, you're a

gracious man...

And I love my job,

but I too would be lying.

Turn about, is fair play, I believe you

learned that from me... fast.

Edward! I love being in your bathroom.

It's the TV, Jeopardy.

Jeopardy... in French?

- Hello.

- Mr. Cole?

Virginia Chambers.

Oh... yea ah... hi.

Let me get Carter for you.

- Well, actually, I called to speak to you.

- Oh...

Is he alright?

Well, yea... he's... he's doing fine.

May I ask where you are?

- France actually, tomorrow...

- Give him back to me!

Virginia, may I call you Virginia?

- I'm not sure, that I can make...

- I'm not asking for his sake.

Mr. Cole... I've been a nurse, my

entire adult life.

Had a ring side seat, to more human tragedies,

then any woman should ever have to bare.

Now, I'm prepared, for my husband to die.

I'm just not prepared to lose him,

while he's still alive.

- Who is Howdy Dowdy?

- You've got it... you pick.

TV. puppets for 400.

These two Muppets are roommates,

on the long running show, Sesame Street.

- Who are Bert and Ernie?

- Who are Bert and Ernie?

Andr vie...

- Who is Spiro Agnew?

- Who is Spiro Agnew?

Well... ah, you're looking... quaint.

This is the first time, I was ever in

a tub with no corners.

Really?

I know... Carter, huh... I've been thinking.

What... with the Catheter and everything.

Maybe we should put this on hold for a while.

Come on... I've told you, stop worrying, Im fine.

It's not that... it's not that.

It's just, maybe you're worried about,

letting me down.

You know, it's a lot easier for me.

You talked to Virginia, didn't you?

Why do you think, I'm doing this?

Because I talked you in to it.

Edward, you're strong, but you're not that strong.

You know...

After Rachel left for college,

there was a... hole.

Meaning, you know... no more

homework, no more little league...

recitals, and school plays...

Kids crying, fights, skinned knees...

And for the first time in 40 years, I looked

at Virginia without all of the noise...

Without all of the... distractions.

And I couldn't remember... what it felt like...

When I could not walk down the street,

without holding her hand.

I mean...

She was the same woman I fell

in love with, she hadn't changed.

But somehow everything's... different.

We've lost something along the way.

You know...

Who is Charlie McCarthy?

- Candy.

- Who is Charlie McCarthy?

Look... look... look... look.

I was very pleased, when Edward decided

to eliminate item number 9, from his list.

Hunt The Big Cat.

But he did insist, on discharging a few

rounds from the big gun.

One proved to be enough.

- Gin.

- Of course, and why not.

Do you know? That the only dog ever struck

by lightning, was right here in Egypt.

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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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