MEET JOE BLACK

(Meet Joe Black)
A film directed by Martin Brest
1998 - 178 minutes - Color - Dolby Digital - 1.85 : 1

Synopsis

Brad  Pitt and Anthony Hopkins star in Martin Brest's dramatic tale of
love and death.

Bill Parish   (Hopkins)   is   a   successful   and   extremely   wealthy
businessman  who  is  living  a  luxurious  lifestyle that he has always
dreamed of, but will this all come to an end  very  soon?  Only  a  few
short   days   before   his   65th   birthday   Bill  receives a visit from a
stranger, Joe  Black,   who   later   reveals   himself   as   Death   and
announces that it is in-fact Bill's time to die. Bill convinces Joe to give him  some  extra  time on Earth but in return he must be Joe's earthly
guide.

Problems soon arise when Joe begins to  fall  in  love  Bill's  daughter
Susan  (Claire Forlani). Will Joe stay with Susan and play with fate or
will he take Bill with him and take her loving father away from her?

Main Cast

Brad Pitt
Anthony Hopkins
Claire Forlani
Jake Weber
Marcia Gay Harden
Jeffrey Tambor
David S. Howard
Lois Kelly-Miller
Jahnni St. John
Richard Clarke
Marylouise Burke
Diane Kagan
June Squibb
Gene Canfield
Suzanne Hevner
Joe Black / Young Man in Coffe...
William Parrish
Susan Parrish
Drew
Allison
Quince
Eddie Sloane
Jamaican Woman
Jamaican Woman's Daughter
Butler
Lillian
Jennifer
Helen
Construction Foreman
Florist

Production

Universal Pictures
City Light Films

Distributors

Universal Pictures (USA)

Box-Office

Budget
$90,000,000

Worldwide Box-Office
$142,940,100

Also Known As

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Release Dates

US Release Date: November 13, 1998
UK Release Date: January 15, 1999
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