Rob Reiner's feel-good tear-jerker, in which dying well is the best revenge, wants to be heartwarming. But first-timer Justin Zackham's screenplay is so stridently formulaic and disingenuous that the film falls flat at every inspirational turn.
Ruthless gazillionaire businessman Edward Perryman Cole (Jack Nicholson) abruptly finds himself in one of his own health-care facilities, sharing a room with middle-class auto mechanic Carter Chambers (Morgan Freeman) because, as his snippy assistant (Sean Hayes) points out, a private room would be bad public relations on the heels of Cole's vehement rebuttal of city-council inquiries into patient overcrowding. Cole's...
Released:
2007
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
97 mins