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Warner Bros. Pictures
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Studio: Universal Pictures
Release Date: Nov 13, 1998
Running Time: 180 mins. (V)
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
The story of a media tycoon William Parrish, whose charmed life and orderly household are suddenly disrupted by the arrival of an enigmatic young man named Joe Black who suddenly insinuates his way into Parrish's life--both in his business and private affairs. Determinedly attached to Parrish's side, Joe attends family dinners, accompanies him to board meetings, and settles comfortably in the Parrish household. Parrish's family and colleagues begin to question the nature of his relationship to his inseparable companion Joe who appears to influence much of Parrish's moves. Joe proceeds to fall in love with Parrish's beautiful young daughter, Susan, a hard-working doctor--the apple of her father's eye. For Parrish, Susan, and the rest of his family, the consequences of this romance are profound, complicated and bittersweet, for revealed only to William Parrish is the fact that Joe Black is actually the personification of Death--awaiting for the proper moment to guide Parrish to the next world.
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Joe Black
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Susan Parrish
Drew
Allison
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Eddie Sloane
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December 8, 2000
Exiting an advance screening of Meet Joe Black, I filed into an elevator with others who had just spent a punishing three hours watching Brad Pitt act like Death. Pitt's Joe Black is really the Grim Reaper in temporary possession of the body of a blond Adonis; he wants to learn what the big deal is about being alive. After slogging through scenes of Joe matching wits with Bill Parrish (Anthony Hopkins), the tycoon he has come to dispatch with a heart attack on Bill's sixty-fifth birthday, and
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