Carter crosses off 'laugh till I cry' from his bucket list and insists Edward finish the list without him. However, the family reunion is short-lived: Carter suffers a seizure and is rushed to the hospital, the cancer having spread to his brain.Д®dward, who is now in remission, visits him and they share a few moments, wherein Carter reveals how Edward's Kopi Luwak coffee is grown in Sumatra and then fed to and defecated by a jungle cat before being harvested because of the special aroma of the gastric juices. Carter returns home to his family while Edward stays home alone. Believing it is a breach of trust, Edward angrily storms off. On the drive back, Carter reciprocates by trying to reunite Edward with his daughter. Carter declines and realizing that he loves his wife, asks to return home.

In Hong Kong, Edward hires a prostitute for Carter, who has never been with any woman but his wife. Everest in Nepal.ДЄtop the Great Pyramid, looking out over the pyramids of Khafre and Menkaure, they confide about faith and family, revealing that Carter has long been feeling less in love with his wife and that Edward is deeply hurt by his estrangement from his only daughter, who disowned him after he drove away her abusive husband. They go skydiving, drive a Shelby Mustang, fly over the North Pole, eat dinner at Chevre d'or in France, visit and praise the beauty and history of Taj Mahal, India, ride motorcycles on the Great Wall of China, attend a lion safari in Tanzania, and visit the base of Mt. Carter agrees and despite the protests of his wife, Virginia (Beverly Todd), Edward and Carter begin their around-the-world vacation. Edward finds it the next morning and urges Carter to do everything on the list, offering to finance the trip for both of them.

After hearing he has less than a year, Carter discards the list. Carter begins writing a 'bucket list', or things to do before he 'kicks the bucket'. Edward enjoys drinking Kopi Luwak, one of the most expensive coffees in the world.Дuring their time in the ward, Carter and Edward find common ground.

Edward is a four-time divorced health-care tycoon and cultured loner who enjoys tormenting his personal valet/servant, Thomas (Sean Hayes), who later reveals his name is actually Matthew. Two men, blue-collar mechanic Carter Chambers (Freeman) and billionaire hospital magnate Edward Cole (Nicholson) meet for the first time in the hospital after both have been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer.Д¬arter is a gifted amateur historian and family man who wanted to become a history professor in his youth but never rose above his status as a mechanic.

The bucket list cast