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Meet Joe Black is a 1998 romantic fantasy drama film starring Brad Pitt as Death, who assumes the identity of a young man to learn about human life. The film is loosely based on the 1934 film Death Takes a Holiday and the 1924 play La morte in vacanza.
Meet Joe Black: Directed by Martin Brest. With Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Claire Forlani, Jake Weber. Death, who takes the form of a young man killed in an accident, asks a media mogul to act as his guide to teach him about life on Earth and, in the process, he falls in love with the mogul's daughter.
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- Drama, Fantasy, Romance
- Martin Brest
- 1998-11-13
Feb 14, 2024 · In the 25 years since its release, "Meet Joe Black" has become more meme than movie. Yet viewers willing to sit through its gargantuan runtime might be surprised by how much of an emotional...
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Drama. 174 minutes ‧ PG-13 ‧ 1998. Roger Ebert. November 13, 1998. 5 min read. “Meet Joe Black” is a movie about a rich man trying to negotiate the terms of his own death. It is a movie about a woman who falls in love with a concept. And it is a meditation on the screen presence of Brad Pitt.
Synopsis. William Parish (Anthony Hopkins) is a multimillionaire who has run a successful empire for the past forty years in New York. But, after his wife passes away, he feels empty and becomes convinced that Death is now after him too.
Bill Parrish (Anthony Hopkins), businessman and devoted family man, is about to celebrate his 65th birthday. However, before he reaches that landmark, he is visited by Death (Brad Pitt), who...
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- Fantasy, Romance, Drama
- PG-13
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Parrish agrees, and using the pseudonym Joe Black, Death begins taking part in Parrish's daily agenda and falls in love with the man's daughter. Yet when Black's holiday is over, so is...
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