Meet Joe Black movie

A media mogul acts as a guide to Death, who takes the form of a young man to learn about life on Earth and in the process, fall in love with his guide's daughter.

Meet Joe Black is a 1998 remake of the 1934 film, Death Takes a Holiday, originally having been remade in 1971 under the same name as the original. Meet Joe Black stars Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, and Claire Forlani. It was directed by Martin Brest.Meet Joe Black was a box office bomb, recouping only about half of its US$ 90 million budget. It remains the most expensive film made that does not include extensive special effects.PlotMeet Joe Black tells the story of Death taking a break from his usual duties and inhabiting the body of a recently-deceased young man in order to learn what it is like to be human.

It is a slow-paced movie that draws on many subtle and carefully selected symmetries and aims to express the one mans thoughts on life and wishes for his family, brought on by a physical encounter with his own mortality - Death himself.The film covers three main storylines; a naive Deaths (Pitt) first experiences with simple pleasures (such as peanut butter), Deaths chosen guide (Hopkins) attempting to manage his business based on the principles on which he founded it while coming to terms with his own mortality, and a romance between "Joe Black" and a young woman, Susan, his guides daughter (Forlani).The movie opens with us introduced to Bill Parrish (Anthony Hopkins). Bill is facing his 65th birthday party and he sees fewer days in front than behind. Indeed, he is approached in his home and work by what he thinks are hallucinations - Death himself has come with the intention of escorting him to the afterlife as part of Deaths duties.Bill, touched by his dream-like brush with morality, expresses his desire for his daughter, Susan, to live out a life with passion. She is considering marriage but Parrish is not that impressed by her relationship. When she asks for the "plain English" version of his impassioned speech, he simply says: "Stay open. Who knows? Lightning could strike..."Shortly after hearing her dads advice, Susan meets a vibrant young man who had just moved into the city, in a coffee shop.

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Meet Joe Black Cast

• Anthony Hopkins
• Claire Forlani
• David S. Howard
• Diane Kagan
• Gene Canfield
• Jahnni St. John
• Jake Weber
• Jeffrey Tambor
• June Squibb
• Lois Kelly-Miller
• Marcia Gay Harden
• Marylouise Burke
• Richard Clarke
• Suzanne Hevner