Shawn Gaston - "The Bucket List"

I loved this movie; I saw it in theaters when it first came out. It is about two men Carter Cole (Morgan Freeman) and Edward Cole (Jack Nicholson) who are terminally ill cancer patients sharing a hospital room. They are total opposites but join and instant and intimate relationship, partially because they are going through the exact same thing. They decide in the last year or so they have on earth that they want to create a bucket list of all the things they want to do before they “kick the bucket.” So the two of them check out of the hospital and travel around the world checking off things from their list. There wish list includes things like race car driving, sky diving, climbing the Pyramids, and going on lion safari in Africa. Along the way they discuss faith and family, and learn from each other even though it was really hard for both of them to open up. I think this was a very inspirational movie with a message about life, a message about living intentionally and with purpose. A lot of people are faced with such unfortunate sicknesses such a cancer and this movie showed a positive way of how two men dealt with their diseases. It has been a very long time that I have witnessed an audience so moved by a mainstream movie.