Meet Joe Black
1998 Directed by Martin Brest
Synopsis
He's Expecting You.
When the grim reaper comes to collect the soul of megamogul Bill Parrish, he arrives with a proposition: Host him for a "vacation" among the living in trade for a few more days of existence. 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 Parrish's life.
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I've lost count of the amount of times I've seen this now - and I never get bored of it. Each time I see it, it actually reinforces the fact that it's so wonderful. Maybe it's the way the whole film seems like it is lit by a roaring fire, maybe it's the little gems of life advice Anthony Hopkins repeatedly comes out with, or maybe it's just the fact that a young blonde Brad Pitt looks so good topless, I don't know. Either way, love it, have loved it, and will always love it.
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Oh my God that scene with the car!!!
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Extremely wooden acting (it's like a petrified forest of talent) -
Meet Joe Black, he's handsome, charming, smart, has a few millenniums under his belt, and still a virgin.
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lol this fucking film.
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Meet Joe Black, a romance thriller loosely adapted from Death Takes a Holiday, excellently sugar-coats tragedy into a well-balanced of elements such as power, loss, love, death, friendship and hope. Joe Black (Brad Pitt) is on a mission to take William Parrish (Hopkins) on a trip he's never been to, the kind of invitation William cannot refuse. However, the more this 'innocent-look' Joe stays besides William, the more he learns about the various sides of life he never knows, including his 'battle' between submitting to his curiosity and carrying out the task he's been given. Bill Parrish and Joe Black, each an expert in his own field, decides to exchange experience on how life would be when standing on each…
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A wonderful and heartwarming drama about a personified version of "death" in the form of Brad Pitt coming spending some time as a mortal and using Anthony Hopkins as his guide. Slightly too long for the average viewers attention span but nevertheless well scripted, acted, and a beautiful soundtrack.
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This is an odd movie. It had potential disaster written all over it but somehow it grabbed me. The movie begins and we are introduced William Parrish, played by Anthony Hopkins, a rich man with a lot on his mind and an upcoming birthday. He's having a discussion with his daughter Susan, Claire Forlani, about the man he's seeing. Essentially he tells her she can do better, lightning might strike.
So we follow her the the coffee shop where she meets Brad Pitt's character. He is the lightning strike she's looking for they part ways and shortly after he dies. Later William has some health problems and comes in contact with death who promises to keep him alive as long…
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A fresh and well-executed take on a classic idea, "What happens when Death takes a holiday?", this touching film paints a beautiful portrait both of an eternal entity's encounter with mortality's simplest pleasures, and the strength and resolve of human goodness. A special shout out to Thomas Newman for a score that is simultaneously intimate and epically dramatic. The final ten minutes of the film are some of the best-scored minutes in film history.
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Brad Pitt at his most beautiful - but I was still bored.
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Bom filme. Tem uma boa dose de emoção.
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Meet Joe Black, he's handsome, charming, smart, has a few millenniums under his belt, and still a virgin.
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Blegh, Martin Brest? More like Martin No-Brevity! Hashtag good puns.
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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An eloquent love story pondering the meaning of life as well as the inevitability of death and taxes, "Meet Joe Black", along with its A-list cast and superb score, makes for an enjoyable tear-jerker of a film.
The shining aspects of the film are the subtle, moving performances of the actors who are given ample face time due to the high amount of dialogue scenes. This almost theatrical level of dialogue is understandable considering that "Meet Joe Black" is a story adapted from the play "Death Takes a Holiday" by Alberto Casella. Unlike a stage environment, however, through the magic of cinema, we are privy to an intense closeness with the characters, who are each played brilliantly by veteran Hollywooders…
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Saw this ages ago but just watched it recently.
It's great in all aspects - if you don't mind a tooty-fruity love story with a clever concept.