Meet Joe Black Movie Info

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Meet Joe Black The Movie (1998)

Movie Title: Meet Joe Black (1998)
Actors: Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Claire Forlani, Jake Weber, Marcia Gay Harden
Directors: Martin Brest
Writers: Alberto Casella, Bo Goldman, Gladys Lehman, Jeff Reno, Kevin Wade
Language: French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Universal Studios
DVD Release Date: November 16, 2007
Run Time: 178 minutes

Meet Joe Black Synopsis

William Parish is a millionaire who has run a succesful empire for the past forty years in New York. But he feels empty when his wife passes away and also completely convinced that Death is after him now too. He hears strange voices in his head, mimicking his own words that seem phoney and also ridiculing him in every possible manner.

The film begins at the planning of William’s 65th birthday by his oldest and somewhat busy body daughter, Allison. Meanwhile his youngest daughter Susan, who is an attractive young doctor, meets a handsome and cheery stranger in a cafe, but fails to learn his name. When they bother leave the cafe and go their seperate ways, the young man is hit by a car, and Susan is unaware of this.

It turns out the dreaded skeletal and infamous figure that all men fear, wants a holiday from the taxing eternal responsibilty of taking the souls of the dead to the after life. He chooses William to be his guide and adopts the now once again perfect body of the handsome stranger who was killed by a car. He makes a deal with Will that if he can show him around the world of mortals, then William gets to live a little longer than originally on the schedule of the powers that be. William agrees after much doubt of his own sanity and how well this will actually work, after all Death isn’t versed in the customs of the upper class or any human class for that matter.

When Death is introduced to William’s family at a dinner at his house, Susan immediatly remembers him and is confused and upset by his odd behaviour towards her now. When Death’s name is asked by Susan’s nosey fiance, William replies that he is an old friend of his and that his name is “Joe Black“. The family isn’t that keen to swallow this, but go along with it, unwilling to question William’s statement. As the plot unwinds it shows that Susan isn’t in love with her fiance, Drew, after all and that she is beginning to realise her true feelings for Joe.

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Susan and Joe Black in Kissing Scene

This complicates matters, as William doesn’t want Death to be involved with his daughter, and that the deal didn’t include this. Death has little care for Will’s feelings and allows Susan to fall for him. Behind the scenes the weasel like Drew is seeking to sell William from the company and run it himself, by selling the company to a possible buyer and an enemy of William’s. Everything comes to a head at Will’s 65th birthday that proves to be absolutely perfect. Joe pretends to be a tax agent for the government and scares Drew into resigning from the company, Susan’s life and reinstating William as head of the board again.

But it is time for William and Death to go, and much to the pain of Death, he must leave Susan behind. When Susan follows them to the edge of the garden and the bridge that Death and William disappear over, the cute stranger that she met in the cafe walks back over. She realises that he isn’t Joe Black anymore and that she’ll never see the intelligent, strange and peanut butter loving man who was Joe, ever again.

Meet Joe Black Review

Meet Joe Black is doomed from the start. The character of Susan falls in love with death and loses her father, the apple of her eye, to the very man she loves. The tale has tragedy written all over it, and within the first five minutes you pretty much know how it’s going to end. In this case the film is about the journey, and the journey is worth taking. There are levels of this story that are completely self indulgent, but I personally enjoy those indulgences.

Meet Joe Black is a long film. Long especially when reflecting it’s topic matter, but it is a good enough movie that the length is forgivable and at times, even almost comforting. Though the idea that time is imminent, that there is only so much left, both for William Parrish and for Death himself makes the tempo of the story take each stride of it’s unveiling with an unforced grace that allows the actors to portray their character’s in a way that is more attune to meet joe black pitt forlanitheatre than film, but in the calculated pacing of Meet Joe Black it seems fitting for the unorthodox structure and performances.

It’s simply a good story, told well, with interesting characters and amazing performances that really explore relationships and love, and maybe even the meaning of life. Don’t be turned off by the length and just go see this movie. It’s worth it.

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