Meet Joe Black1998
Meet Joe Black (1998)
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Cast
as Joe Black
as William Parrish
as Susan Parrish
as Drew
as Allison
as Quince
as Eddie Sloane
as Jamaican Woman
as Jamaican Woman's Daughter
as Butler
as Lillian
as Jennifer
as Helen
as Construction Foreman
as Florist
as Electrician
as Madeline
as Drew's Secretary
as Boardmember
as Boardmember
as Boardmember
as Boardmember
as Boardmember
as Boardmember
as Hospital Receptionist
as Party Waiter
as Party Guest
as Party Guest
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Critic Reviews for Meet Joe Black
All Critics (38) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (19) | Rotten (19) | DVD (5)
You just feel like you're dragging a set of dumbbells around with you while you're watching it.
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.
Is weighed down by a tediously slow pace and overwrought production values.
Un buen ejercicio sobre ideas de amor... de muerte y del camino que todos vamos a seguir en algún momento...
The latest masterpiece to fall victim to cynicism.
There's a decent two-hour movie buried within the three hours of Meet Joe Black, a classic instance of a filmmaker overvaluing his material beyond all good sense.
Audience Reviews for Meet Joe Black
This movie grows on me. The story is interesting, the relationships formed are special, and the acting was great. I didn't realize until I did some research that this is the third time this story has been filmed -- the first two are called Death Takes a Holiday - in 1934 and 1971. I found the story intriguing - "Death" trying out life. I will have to see the earlier versions.
Super Reviewer
Suspension of disbelief might have helped enjoy this movie had the pacing be not so sluggish. It simply gives too much time to think about the characters' illogical actions when it ought to have moved swiftly. There are simply too many flaws in the movie to be able to enjoy it enough.
Super Reviewer
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, including colloquialisms about Death and taxes? One would think he'd have a human dalliance every decade at least. The character is written to be a wide-eyed simpleton, and they had to pick the actor with the worst face and voice for that: Brad Pitt. He's so dead-eyed and dumb-sounding.
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Meet Joe Black Quotes
| William Parrish: | "Stop blowing smoke up my a$$ you'll ruin my autopsy" |
| William Parrish: | Don't blow smoke up my ass, it will ruin my autopsy. |
| Susan Parrish: | I wish you could've known my father. |
| Joe Black: | Yes. |
| 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. |
| 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. |