Review: `Bucket List' Survives Gimmicks

The Bucket List

Facing terminal illness, we all should get to experience a no-costs-barred world tour to do everything we ever wanted.

Most of us don't have the convenient bottomless wallet that allows Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman to do just that in "The Bucket List," a comic drama that puts director Rob Reiner back in commercial if not artistic form.

Unlike Reiner's string of duds the last 10 years or so, the movie is easily accessible, with Nicholson and Freeman elevating a story overloaded with cliched life lessons and self-help slogans into a tolerable, relatively painless way to go.

Nicholson and Freeman are so lovably companionable, they almost make you forget the glaring contrivances screenwriter Justin Zackham concocts to bring these two mismatched cancer patients together, making steadfast buddies out of men who never would have met and connected in real life.

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Rob Reiner Endorses Hillary Clinton

Rob Reiner has endorsed New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination. "Every one of the Democratic candidates is strong, but Hillary is head and shoulders above the rest," the 60-year-old director said Wednesday.

Reiner, whose films include "When Harry Met Sally," "A Few Good Men" and "Stand By Me," also said he would throw a fundraiser party for Clinton's 60th birthday at his Brentwood estate Oct. 21.

Fellow filmmaker Steven Spielberg announced in June that he was backing Clinton.

Spielberg has directed some of Hollywood's most admired films, including "Jaws," "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial," "Jurassic Park," "Schindler's List" and "Saving Private Ryan."

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