For all their apparent differences, they discovered they had two very important things in common: an unrealized need to come to terms with who they were and the choices they'd made, and a pressing desire to spend the time they had left doing everything they ever wanted to do. Carter and Edward found themselves sharing a hospital room with plenty of time to think about what might happen next-and about how much of that was in their hands. Then life delivered an urgent and unexpected wake-up call to both of them. He was always too busy making money and building an empire to think about what his deeper needs might be beyond the next big acquisition or cup of gourmet coffee.

Meanwhile, corporate billionaire Edward Cole never saw a list without a bottom line. Marriage, children, myriad responsibilities and, ultimately, a 46-year job as an auto mechanic turned his concept of a bucket list into little more than a bittersweet memory of lost opportunities and a mental exercise he occasionally thought about to pass the time. But while Carter was trying to define his private dreams and plans, reality intruded. A long time ago, Carter Chambers' philosophy professor suggested that his students compose a 'bucket list,' a collection of all the things they wanted to do, see and experience in life before they kicked the bucket.

The bucket list cast