Meet Joe Black

Meet Joe Black is a 1998 American fantasy romance film produced by Universal Studios, directed by Martin Brest and starring Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins and Claire Forlani, loosely based on the 1934 film Death Takes a Holiday. It was the second pairing of Hopkins and Pitt after their 1994 film Legends of the Fall.

Susan meets a vibrant young man at a coffee shop. She is instantly enamored but fails to even get his name. Minutes after their encounter but unbeknownst to her, the man is struck by multiple cars in what appears to be a fatal motor vehicle accident. Death arrives at Bills home in the body of the young man, explaining that Bills impassioned speech has piqued his interest. Given Bills competence, experience, and wisdom, Death says that for as long as Bill will be his guide on Earth, he will not have to die. Making up a name on the spot, Death is introduced to the family as Joe Black.Bills best efforts to navigate the next few days knowing them now to be his last fail to keep events from going rapidly out of his control. Drew is secretly conspiring with a man bidding for Parrish Communications. He capitalizes on Bills strange behavior and unexplained reliance on Joe Black to convince the board to vote him out as Chairman, using information given to him inadvertently by Bills soninlaw, Quince, to push through approval for the merger which Bill had decided to oppose. Quince is devastated. ........

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