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Attracted but too shy to pursue the meeting, they go their ways. The girl, Susan Claire Forlani is the daughter of much loved tycoon and widower, William Parrish Anthony Hopkins , about to celebrate his 65 th birthday, with a huge party arranged by his older daughter Allison Marcia Gay Harden. Strange voices in his head herald the arrival of an enigmatic young man who introduces himself as the incarnation of death. He is here for a bit of a tour of the human condition before taking Bill Parrish away. Then comes the reckoning for all of them.

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It is a movie about a woman who falls in love with a concept. And it is a meditation on the screen presence of Brad Pitt. That there is also time for scenes about sibling rivalry and a corporate takeover is not necessarily a good thing.

The movie contains elements that make it very good, and a lot of other elements besides. Less is more. As the movie opens, a millionaire named William Parrish Anthony Hopkins is pounded by a heart attack, the soundtrack using low bass chords to assault the audience. He hears a voice--his own--in his head. On the brink of his 65th birthday, he senses that death is near.

Lightning could strike. A few hours later, in a coffee shop, she meets a stranger Brad Pitt. They talk and flirt. He says all the right things. Lightning makes, at the very least, a near miss. They confess they really like each other. They part. He is killed. That night at dinner, she is startled to find him among her father's guests. The body of the young man is now occupied by Death, who has come to inform Parrish that his end is near.

He does not recognize Susan. That's odd. Isn't Death an emissary from God? Shouldn't he know these things? He's been around a long time one imagines him breaking the bad news to amoebas. This Death doesn't even know what peanut butter tastes like, or how to kiss. A job like that, you want a more experienced man. No matter. We accept the premise. We're distracted, anyway, by the way Brad Pitt plays the role.

Pitt is a fine actor, but this performance is a miscalculation. Pitt plays them as a compliment to himself.

There is no chemistry between Joe Black and Susan because both parties are focused on him. That at least leads to the novelty of a rare movie love scene where the camera is focused on the man's face, not the woman's. Actresses have become skilled over the years at faking orgasms on camera, usually with copious cries of delight and sobs of passion. As they're buffeted by their competent male lovers, I am sometimes reminded of a teenager making the cheerleader team, crossed with a new war widow.

A male actor would have to be very brave to reveal such loss of control, and Pitt's does not cry out. His orgasm plays in slow motion across his face like a person who is thinking, this is way better than peanut butter. I was not, in short, sold on the relationship between Susan and Joe.

She spends most of the movie puzzling about a very odd man who briefly made her heart feel gooey. There is no person there for her, just the idea of perfect love. Joe Black is presented as a being who is not familiar with occupying a human body or doing human things. One wonders--is this the first time Death has tried this approach? Parrish strikes a deal with him he won't die as long as he can keep Joe interested and teach him new things and takes him everywhere with him, including board meetings, where Joe's response to most situations is total silence, while looking like the cat that ate the mouse.

The Parrish character, and Anthony Hopkins' performance, are entirely different matters. Hopkins invests the dying millionaire with intelligence and acceptance, and he talks wonderfully well.

His key business relationships are with the snaky Drew Jake Weber , whom Susan dumps for Joe, and with the avuncular Quince Jeffrey Tambor , his loyal but bumbling son-in-law. Quince is married to Allison Marcia Gay Harden , who knows Susan is her father's favorite but can live with that because Parrish is such a swell guy.

He's ethical, sensitive, and beloved--the first movie rich man who could at least squeeze his head and shoulders through the eye of the needle. What's fascinating about Parrish is that he handles death as he has handled everything else. He makes a realistic assessment of his chances, sees what advantages he can extract, negotiates for the best possible terms and gracefully accepts the inevitable. There are times when he handles his talks with Death so surely that you wish Heaven had sent a more articulate negotiator.

The movie's ending takes too long. There are farewells, reflections, confessions, reassurances, reconciliations, partings and surprises. Joe Black begins to get on our nerves with his knack for saying things that are technically true, but incomplete and misleading.

The film would play better if he didn't always have to talk in epigrams. Even at the very end, when a line or two of direct dialogue would have cleared the air, he's still talking in acrostic clues. Claire Forlani has a touching vulnerability as she negotiates the strange terms of her love.

Marcia Gay Harden plays a wise, grownup scene with Parrish, as a loving daughter who knows she isn't the favorite. Jeffrey Tambor's performance is crucial; through his eyes, we understand what a good man Parrish is. And Anthony Hopkins inhabits a story that tends toward quicksand and finds dry land.

Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from until his death in In , he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. Jake Weber as Drew. Anthony Hopkins as William Parrish. Claire Forlani as Susan Parrish. Jeffrey Tambor as Quince. Brad Pitt as Joe Black. Marcia Gay Harden as Allison. Reviews Meet Joe Black. Roger Ebert November 13, Now playing. How to Fix a Drug Scandal. The Willoughbys. The Main Event. The Wrong Missy.

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I first watched this movie with my mom right after her dad died, and we sobbed the entire way through, both of us finding our own connections to the story of a beloved father Hopkins leaving his daughter Claire Forlani behind as she, uh … well, as she falls in love with the Grim Reaper. Much like The OA , this movie is embarrassing to describe out loud. To this day, even the first few notes of the sweeping score bring me to tears. But Meet Joe Black is not for everyone.

Everyone is ripping into this ridiculously drawn out scene from Meet Joe Black

Nevertheless, in the year , Meet Joe Black is, improbably, having a moment again. Specifically, a minute-and-a-half-long clip from the movie has been making the rounds on Twitter since it was posted Thursday. Pitt steps into the street against the light—reckless! Another truly bonkers fact about this movie is that it runs more than three hours—upon viewing the clip, a masterclass in inefficiency, among other things, you can see why—and its director, Martin Brest, who had been previously nominated for an Oscar for Scent of a Woman, the movie that won Al Pacino his Best Actor award. Brad Pitt plays…death incarnate. See a few of the best reactions to a two-decade-old meme in the making below. The couple were together from Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, who met on the set of Mr. The couple dated in

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Each turns around periodically to look back longingly, but neither does so when the other is similarly paused. Claire turns the corner. Brad pauses in the middle of the street. He avoids one car, another hits him and a third bashes him about like a big, blonde ragdoll. At time of writing the video has clocked up more than 5.

It's that film starring Brad Pitt, Claire Forlani, and Anthony Hopkins about a lad who comes to earth in the form of a human but he's really Death. While there, he learns all about love, heartache, and what it means to be a person who is alive, rather than what he is, which is Death. It's a weird movie but it's got decent reviews so watch it if you haven't seen it and like young Brad Pitt, we guess?

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In the years since, she has also found her voice, speaking out about her brush with Harvey Weinstein, how the gender pay gap affects her — and just how many mints she and Pitt went through to film their big love scene. The actor, then 26, played the lead in the romantic drama Meet Joe Black opposite a very charming, very blond Brad Pitt, who was arguably at the height of his fame. Yet things have come full circle for Forlani, as the year-old finds herself starring in Five Feet Apart , a film about a girl who cannot be with the boy she loves. This time though, she plays the mother of one of the star-crossed lovers. You were born and raised in England and your husband was born and raised in Scotland [the couple has homes in London and LA].

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