Article: PRO ACTORS MAKE 'BUCKET LIST' A BLAST

"The Bucket List" is melodramatic, sentimental, saccharine, superficial ... and thoroughly entertaining.

It's the kind of movie that causes critics to flex their cynicism while moviegoers, wisely ignoring the experts, flock to the box office.

And why not? It's not every day that they're given the opportunity to see seasoned movie pros gleefully play off each other in a vehicle that seems tailor-made for their respective strengths.

In this case, the old pros are Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman.

Nicholson plays Edward Cole, a billionaire who's as unlikable as he is rich. Freeman is Carter Chambers, who wanted to be a college

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