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The Bucket List (2007): friends, who belong to a Women’s Institute,
whose motto is “enlightenment, fun, and
friendship”. It is mostly boring activity,
however, and most mundane is their annual
fund-raising calendar. After the husband
of one of the women dies of leukemia, they
want to get a memorial in his memory, and
decide to do a nude calendar to raise more
funds. The women not just have to convince
members of the group to pose, but also to
find a photographer who will make it look
This Rob Reiner film, starring Jack artistic. The idea is bold, and, of course,
Nicholson and Morgan Freeman breaks the shocks the small town community.
no-illness criterion set above, because it is
so full of joy. The two wonderful leading Everybody’s Fine (2009):
men play characters who escape from
the cancer ward, where they are awaiting
death, to live out their last days, ticking off
a list of things they always wanted to do
before they kick the bucket.
Book Club (2018):
Robert De Niro stars in this Kirk Jones film
as a recent widower, Frank Goode, who
realises that his wife had kept the family
together, and when she’s gone, their four
grown-up children renege on their reunion.
So against the advice of his doctor, he
travels to see the four in the different cities
Bill Holderman had the honour of directing where they live, to understand what they
four fabulous actresses – Jane Fonda, are like now, and in the process rediscovers
Diane Keaton, Candice Bergen, Mary himself, in this heartfelt film about lost
Steenbergen—as four longtime friends, connections and bonding.
who meet regularly for their book club. The
reading of E.L. James’s steamy bestseller The Intern (2015):
Fifty Shades Of Grey, shakes up their staid Nancy Meyers directs Robert De Niro in
lives, as they rediscover spice and sex. the role of the 70-year-old widower, Ben
Whittaker, who is so bored with a nothing-
Calendar Girls (2003): to-do lifestyle and signs up for seniors’
The redoubtable Helen Mirren and Julie intern programme and is placed at the
Walters star in Nigel Cole’s comedy, as best office of harried fashion start-up founder
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