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Meet Joe Black

Play trailer 2:26 Poster for Meet Joe Black PG-13 Released Nov 2, 1998 3h 0m Fantasy Romance Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
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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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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.

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Joe Clay Times (UK) [A] glossy but overlong update of Mitchell Leisen’s 1934 comedy Death Takes a Holiday. Mar 28, 2023 Full Review Lisa Alspector Chicago Reader A savory, extralong feature whose obvious plotlines unfold with an almost painful slowness that somehow makes them deeper. Oct 26, 2020 Full Review Ann Hornaday Baltimore Sun To call the three-hour-long "Meet Joe Black" leaden would do an injustice to lead. Rated: 1/4 Oct 26, 2020 Full Review David Oppedisano Radio Times This is Hollywood at the crossroads of glossy and classy, with Hopkins at the peak of his powers and Pitt at his most transcendent. Rated: 4/5 Jun 7, 2024 Full Review Brian Costello Common Sense Media A gimmicky premise is made even worse by iffy acting, hilariously bad dialogue, and a slow pace. Jan 17, 2024 Full Review Ade Adeniji AdeAdeniji.com Meet Joe Black was a box office flub back in the late 1990s. But the three hour fantasy-romance movie isn’t all bad and like other cult classics like The Room, is so confidently ridiculous at times, you won't soon forget it. Rated: 3/5 Dec 20, 2022 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member A serial killer inserts himself into a billionaire family conning a senile businessman into believing he is death influencing him to stop a profitable enterprise and breaking up a proposed marriage, climaxes by killing the billionaire Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 03/29/25 Full Review Brett P Such a sad yet beautiful movie. Death has never known anything but death, so getting to experience life and love. I was crying for half the movie. It may be hard to understand but if you do, you might feel the same way. Amazing film. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/25/25 Full Review Nathan F A beautiful romance story intertwined with the knowledge of our own fate and questioning what we value most in this world. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/16/25 Full Review Sergio G Como pode um filme existir? Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 03/08/25 Full Review MD MANJUR I How futile life is!! This film may b not everyone's cup of tea.. Bt really connects your soul with ultimate future of every human being.. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/07/25 Full Review Louise A This movie is the first ever movie to hit me this deep. This is all I could ever ask for in a movie, I knew it would have a bitter-sweet ending but I could have never thought I would be bawling my eyes off for hours. It gave me the realization that even death couldn't escape love.. ( plus points for the really hot actors) Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/25/25 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis 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.
Director
Martin Brest
Producer
Martin Brest
Screenwriter
Ron Osborn, Jeff Reno, Bo Goldman
Distributor
Universal Pictures, MCA/Universal Pictures [us]
Production Co
Universal Pictures, City Lights Pictures
Rating
PG-13
Genre
Fantasy, Romance, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Nov 2, 1998, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
Mar 18, 2014
Box Office (Gross USA)
$44.6M
Runtime
3h 0m
Sound Mix
Surround, Dolby Digital, DTS, SDDS
Aspect Ratio
Flat (1.85:1)
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