MEET JOE BLACK (1999)

MARTIN BREST

Romance Drama Supernatural

Cast

BRAD PITT ANTHONY HOPKINS CLAIRE FORLANI JAKE WEBER MARCIA GAY HARDEN JEFFREY TAMBOR

Plot

Epic, morbid romance with Brad Pitt as the Grim Reaper, temporarily occupying the body of recently deceased lawyer Joe Black, and in New York for the holiday of a lifetime. Good news for most people as nobody can peg it while Death takes a vacation, but bad news for billionaire Bill Parrish, whose daughter Joe takes a fancy to. Pitt is as charismatic as ever, but sadly this is a movie with delusions of grandeur, promising profundity but delivering only light-hearted whimsy, with the whole thing let down by a blatantly cop-out ending.