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Article: SENTIMENTAL SLOP FILLS 'BUCKET LIST'

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January 11, 2008
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There is only one way "The Bucket List" could possibly have been entertaining: if Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman had switched roles.

A male weepie lacking both shame and creativity, "The Bucket List" stars

Nicholson as Edward Cole, a playboy millionaire suffering from terminal

cancer, and Freeman as Carter Chambers, a car mechanic in the same

predicament.

The two men share a hospital room, where they bond and talk about the

things they want to do before they die (drive a race car, climb a

mountain, etc.) Thanks to a medical miracle - or at least a screenwriting

contrivance - they get a last window of good health to tackle their list.

Nicholson at least deserves credit for ...

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