Publisher's Synopsis
Triple bill of films with the theme of getting older. In 'The Bucket List' (2007) billionaire Edward Cole (Jack Nicholson) and working class mechanic Carter Chambers (Morgan Freeman) 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 before they 'kick the bucket' and an unrealised 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. In 'Something's Gotta Give' (2003) Harry Sanborn (Nicholson) is an aging music industry executive with a penchant for much younger women. He accompanies his latest girlfriend, Marin (Amanda Peet), to her mother's beach house for a dirty weekend but things turn awkward when he suffers a heart attack. When he is left in the care of Marin's mother, Erica (Diane Keaton), and a handsome young doctor (Keanu Reeves), a love triangle begins to emerge as both men realise they are in love with Erica. 'Space Cowboys' (2000) follows four test pilots - Frank Corvin (Clint Eastwood), Hawk Hawkins (Tommy Lee Jones), Jerry O'Neill (Donald Sutherland) and Tank Sullivan (James Garner) - who, in 1958, almost became the first men in space. Internal problems prevented them from going, however, and they were all discharged. Four decades later the group are re-formed when IKON, an old Russian satellite, suffers system failure, the results of which could be catastrophic if not dealt with soon. The only system that can stop the satellite from causing mass destruction is the old one designed by Corvin so he and his aging team are finally sent on a mission into space.
