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Article: Here's One Less Thing to Do Before You Die: See 'Bucket List'
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- January 11, 2008
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When Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were whipping up their now-
70-year-old musical souffles, it was always said that Fred provided
the class, while Ginger provided the sex. This raises a question,
however obliquely, about 70-year-old actors-cum-tap-dancers Jack
Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. What do the poster boy for juvenile
delinquency and the first black president (in our dream life) bring
to the table? In the bookkeeper's logic of Hollywood, they provide a
reason to make a movie. And in the case of "The Bucket List," no
reason at all to watch one.
The lowest of high concepts, "Bucket List" is about two old coots
with terminal cancer who decide to live out a few last-minute
thrills ...