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Article: PRO ACTORS MAKE 'BUCKET LIST' A BLAST
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- Roanoke Times & World News
- Article date:
- January 12, 2008
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"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