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Meet Joe Black (1998)

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Average Rating: 5.6/10
Reviews Counted: 37
Fresh: 19 | Rotten: 18

Glacially slow, uneventful.

Average Rating: 5.6/10
Critic Reviews: 6
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 3

Glacially slow, uneventful.

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The cycle of life on Earth hangs in the balance when Death becomes emotionally involved in this romantic fantasy. William Parrish (Anthony Hopkins) is a tremendously wealthy and powerful man who oversees a worldwide multi-media empire. Despite the loss of his wife, whom he dearly loved, William is content with his life, and he's very close to his two daughters, Allison (Marcia Gay Harden) and Susan (Claire Forlaini). One night, as William is fighting a hostile takeover of his company and Allison

PG-13, 3 hr. 1 min.

Drama, Science Fiction & Fantasy

Directed By: Martin Brest

Written By: Ron Osborn, Jeff Reno, Kevin Wade, Bo Goldman

In Theaters: Nov 13, 1998 Wide

On DVD: Apr 6, 1999

Universal Pictures

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Cast

Brad Pitt
Joe Black, Young Man in...
Anthony Hopkins
William Parrish
Claire Forlani
Susan Parrish
Jake Weber
Drew
Marcia Gay Harden
Allison
Jeffrey Tambor
Quince
David S. Howard
Eddie Sloan
Lois Kelly-Miller
Jamaican Woman

Critic Reviews for Meet Joe Black

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Long but never boring, spiritual but never soggy, this is the brand of big entertainment Hollywood is best at but so rarely does right these days.

March 11, 2008 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com

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Rob Gonsalves

eFilmCritic.com

Is weighed down by a tediously slow pace and overwrought production values.

August 21, 2002 Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice

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Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

Spirituality and Practice

Un buen ejercicio sobre ideas de amor... de muerte y del camino que todos vamos a seguir en alg�n momento...

September 3, 2001 Full Review Source: Cinenganos

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Alex Ramirez

Cinenganos

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This movie really makes no sense, but I still enjoy it a lot by the grace of the willowy and wounded Claire Forlani. Death has been around since the beginning of time (just ballparking it), so how is he still so ignorant about friendship, passion, sex, success, greed, revenge - the ways of the world, essentially,

May 21, 2012

Alice Shen

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A very interesting film that I found to be really cool, however not as great as I had expected, it was very long an got stupid at times.

February 27, 2011

Brad Wright

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Meet Joe Black Quotes

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1. Joe Black: Yes.
– Submitted by Weston T (2 months ago)
1. Joe Black: So you understand the concept, Bill. Now multiply that by infinity, take that to the depths of forever, and you still barely have a glimpse of what I'm taking about.
2. Joe Black: Should you choose to test my resolve in this matter, you will be facing a finality beyond your comprehension, and you will not be counting days, or months, or years, but millenniums in a place with no doors.
– Submitted by Quincy J (3 months ago)
1. Allison: Nevermind favorites, you're allowed to have one, the point is you've been mine.
– Submitted by Denise J (4 months ago)
1. William Parrish: [about love] I want you to get swept away out there. I want you to levitate. I want you to sing with rapture and dance like a dervish.
2. Susan Parrish: Oh, that's all?
3. William Parrish: Yeah. Be deliriously happy, or at least leave yourself open to be.
– Submitted by Olivia B (7 months ago)

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