Meet Joe Black

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Meet Joe Black is a 1998 romantic drama starring Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins and Claire Forlani, loosely based on the 1934 film Death Takes a Holiday. The movie opens with an introduction to the guide, Bill Parrish (Anthony Hopkins), who doubts that he will live for many more years. Indeed, he is approached in his home and work by what he thinks are hallucinations, wherein Death himself has come with the intention of escorting him to the afterlife... more
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Initial release date:

  • Nov 13, 1998

Directed by:

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Rating:

PG-13 (USA)

Runtime:

  • 2 h 58 min

Estimated budget:

  • 90,000,000 (US$)

Produced by:

Screenplay by:

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Film

Directed by

Martin Brest

Martin Brest (born August 8, 1951) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Brest graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1969, from New York...

Alan Smithee

Alan Smithee (also Allen Smithee) is an official pseudonym used by film directors who wish to disown a project, coined in 1968. Until its use was formally...
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Tagline:

  • No one can die - while he loves!
  • Meet Joe Black: Sooner or Later Everyone Does.
  • He's Expecting You.

Genres:

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Runtime:

  • 2 h 58 min

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Currency Amount
  • 90,000,000

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Award-Nominated Work

Award Nominations:

Year Award
  • 1998
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Adaptation

Adapted From

Death Takes a Holiday

Death Takes a Holiday is a 1934 romantic drama starring Fredric March, Evelyn Venable and Guy Standing, based on a play by Alberto Casella. After years of questioning why people fear him, Death (March) takes on human form so he can mingle among the mortals and find an answer. However, events soon...
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