Christianity Today recommends The Bucket List: "As they endure chemotherapy treatments together, Carter and Edward forge a friendship and begin talking about life and death. Recalling an assignment from his college philosophy class, Carter begins to write a "bucket list" of things he'd like to experience before he kicks said bucket. Staring at mortality, their deadlines looming, wealthy Edward makes some additions of his own and proposes that the two begin fulfilling their checklist, a journey that takes them around the world despite the protests of Carter's wife Virginia.I still love the way this movie makes you ask the big questions. Carter and Edward share a terrific discussion about faith and the existence of God that would make a perfect springboard for the start of a sermon—though not the end. At the beginning of the movie, Carter lists the varying methods people measure their lives by, concluding that, "You measure yourself by the people that measure themselves by you." That, in conjunction with Christian beliefs, is the start of another deep conversation, for which this movie partly serves as a parable."
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