Meet Joe Black is a unique movie, although it's a remake of a movie made some 60 years earlier, that spins a marvelous and intriguing story. Brad Pitt is in the leading role, and he plays Death. He's biding his time instead of staying busy doing his work, and while meandering around finds a fascination for life and love, particularly with the daughter of the man whose time is winding down to an abrupt end.
Anthony Hopkins costars as the father, and Claire Forlani is the daughter. It's not the first time that Brad Pitt and Anthony Hopkins share the big screen, and they do an excellent job with one another, as does Forlani, who had her breakout role in this movie.
The Meet Joe Black DVD has done well over the years, despite the fact that it didn't do very well at the theaters. It's simply not a very great box office flick, because it's long and the action and drama comes slowly. However, watching the Meet Joe Black DVD from the comfort of your home will allow you to relax and even break up the movie into chunks if you need to in order to get through it.
Whether you're a huge Pitt or Hopkins fan or you just happen to like this fascinating tale about life, love and death, then you can buy Meet Joe Black on DVD right here.
Meet Joe Black seemed almost fated to fail when it was released in 1998, but this romantic fantasy--a remake of 1934's Death Takes a Holiday--deserves a chance at life after box-office death. Although many moviegoers were turned off by director Martin Brest's overindulgent three-hour running time, those who gear into its deliberate pace will find that Meet Joe Black offers ample reward for your attention.
Brad Pitt plays Death with a capital D, enjoying some time on Earth by inhabiting the body of a young man who'd been killed in a shockingly sudden pedestrian-auto impact. Before long, Death has ingratiated himself with a wealthy industrialist (Anthony Hopkins) and pursues romance with the man's beautiful daughter (newcomer Claire Forlani), whom he'd briefly encountered while still an earthbound human. Under the assumed identity of "Joe Black," he samples all the pleasures that corporeal life has to offer--power, romance, sex, and such enticing pleasures as peanut butter by the spoonful.
But Death has a job to do, and Meet Joe Black addresses the heart-wrenching dilemma that arises when either father or daughter (the plot keeps us guessing) must confront his or her inevitable demise. The film takes its own sweet time to establish this emotional crisis and the love that binds Hopkins's semidysfunctional family so closely together. But if you've stuck with the story this far, you may find yourself surprisingly affected. And if Meet Joe Black has really won you over, you'll more than appreciate the care and affection that gives the film a depth and richness that so many critics chose to ignore. --Jeff Shannon
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