Meet Joe Black
1998 · Movie · PG-13 · 178 min · ★ 7.4 · 46% critics
A powerful businessman nearing a milestone birthday is visited by a mysterious stranger who claims to be Death. Given a chance at a little more time, he agrees to act as the visitor’s guide to everyday life, only for the arrangement to grow complicated when the stranger becomes drawn to the man’s daughter.
Based on Death Takes a Holiday, La Morte in Vacanza
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Details
- Years
- 1998
- Release date
- 1998-11-12
- Language
- English
- Rated
- PG-13
- Runtime
- 178 min
- Critic score
- 46/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.4/10 (5,776 votes)
- Box office
- $142,000,000
- Budget
- $90,000,000
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a long, reflective romance-drama that mixes humor with big questions about life and mortality, similar in mood to The Age of Adaline; not for you if you hate slow pacing.
Pros: intriguing supernatural premise; emotional romance; strong lead performances | Cons: very long runtime; slow, talky pacing; distracting business subplot
Themes
- life and death
- broken engagement
- love at first sight
- fireworks
- religion and supernatural
- based on play or musical
- fate
- teenage crush
- grim reaper
- doctor
- millionaire
- death personified
- +5 more
Awards & recognition
- Bogey Awards · 1999
Cast & crew
Brad Pitt
as Joe Black / Young Man in Coffee Shop
Anthony Hopkins
as William Parrish
Claire Forlani
as Susan Parrish
Jake Weber
as Drew
Marcia Gay Harden
as Allison
Jeffrey Tambor
as Quince
- DH
David S. Howard
as Eddie Sloane
Lois Kelly-Miller
as Jamaican Woman
- JJ
Jahnni St. John
as Jamaican Woman's Daughter
Richard Clarke
as Butler
Directed by Martin Brest