The Bucket List
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Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers are worlds apart.At a crossroads in their lives, they share a hospital room and discover they have two things in common: a desire to spend the time they have left doing everything they ever wanted to do and an unrealized need to come to terms with who they are.
- Director
- Rob Reiner
- Worldwide
- $175M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
Story overview
What It's About
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Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers are worlds apart. At a crossroads in their lives, they share a hospital room and discover they have two things in common: a desire to spend the time they have left doing everything they ever wanted to do and an unrealized need to come to terms with who they are. Together they embark on the road trip of a lifetime, becoming friends along the way and learning to live life to the fullest, with insight and humor.
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
The Bucket List returned 3.9× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $45M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $175M
- Release date
- Dec 25, 2007
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- MPAA rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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