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Meet Joe Black is pretty to look at and benefits from an agreeable cast, but that isn't enough to offset this dawdling drama's punishing three-hour runtime. Read critic reviews
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Meet Joe Black videos
Meet Joe Black: Trailer 1
Meet Joe Black: Official Clip - I Like You So Much
Meet Joe Black: Official Clip - Lightning Could Strike
Meet Joe Black: Official Clip - Mystery Man
Meet Joe Black: Official Clip - Joe Says Goodbye
Meet Joe Black: Official Clip - That Was Wonderful
Meet Joe Black: Official Clip - Peanut Butter Man
Meet Joe Black: Official Clip - Bill Introduces Joe
Meet Joe Black: Official Clip - Am I Going to Die?
Meet Joe Black: Official Clip - Bill's Birthday Speech
Meet Joe Black: Official Clip - Undressing Joe Black
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Movie Info
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 has taken human form as Joe Black, a young man who recently died. Joe and Bill make a deal: Bill will be given a few extra days of his life, and Joe will spend the same time getting to know what it's like to be human. It seems like a perfect arrangement, until Joe falls in love -- with Bill's daughter.
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Rating: PG-13
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Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Drama
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Original Language: English
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Director: Martin Brest
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Producer: Martin Brest
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Writer: Ron Osborn, Jeff Reno, Bo Goldman
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Release Date (Theaters): original
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Release Date (Streaming):
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Box Office (Gross USA): $44.6M
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Runtime:
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Distributor: Universal Pictures, MCA/Universal Pictures [us]
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Production Co: Universal Pictures, City Lights Pictures
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Sound Mix: Surround, Dolby Digital, DTS, SDDS
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Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)
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Audience Reviews for Meet Joe Black
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Far longer than it needs to be, and pretty silly at times, but unforgettable and fascinating. There's nothing out there like this film. It's a great look into the human mind and how it interacts with its environment, as shown in Pitt's almost childlike portrayal of Death. Good story, fantastic music and atmosphere...I just love how a lot of the scenes are set up in this film. Very unique.
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This movie really makes no sense, but I still enjoy it a lot by the grace of the willowy and wounded Claire Forlani. Death has been around since the beginning of time (just ballparking it), so how is he still so ignorant about friendship, passion, sex, success, greed, revenge - the ways of the world, essentially, including colloquialisms about Death and taxes? One would think he'd have a human dalliance every decade at least. The character is written to be a wide-eyed simpleton, and they had to pick the actor with the worst face and voice for that: Brad Pitt. He's so dead-eyed and dumb-sounding.
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A very interesting film that I found to be really cool, however not as great as I had expected, it was very long an got stupid at times.
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I I were just judging it's beautiful score, it would be a ten. If I had a brain? About a 5/10.
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