Meet Joe Black
Sooner or later everyone does.
Overview
Bill Parrish has it all - success, wealth and power. Days before his 65th birthday, he receives a visit from a mysterious stranger, Joe Black, who soon reveals himself as Death. In exchange for extra time, Bill agrees to serve as Joe's earthly guide. But will he regret his choice when Joe unexpectedly falls in love with Bill's beautiful daughter Susan?
- Budget
- $90,000,000
- Revenue
- $142,940,100
- Production
- Universal Pictures, City Light Films
Tags & Hashtags
Watch Meet Joe Black Online
Video player provided by a third-party service. CineFlix does not host any content.
Official Trailer & More
Videos auto-play in sequence. If a video isn't available in your country, it's automatically skipped.
Cast
Brad Pitt
Joe Black / Young Man in Coffee Shop
Anthony Hopkins
William Parrish
Claire Forlani
Susan Parrish
Jake Weber
Drew
Marcia Gay Harden
Allison
Jeffrey Tambor
Quince
Lois Kelly-Miller
Jamaican Woman
Richard Clarke
Butler
Marylouise Burke
Lillian
June Squibb
Helen
Gene Canfield
Construction Foreman
Suzanne Hevner
Florist
Stephen Adly Guirgis
Hospital Receptionist
Leo Marks
Party Waiter
Crew
- Director
- Martin Brest
- Writers
- Ron Osborn,Jeff Reno,Bo Goldman,Kevin Wade
- Producers
- Martin Brest,Ronald L. Schwary
- Cinematography
- Emmanuel Lubezki
- Composer
- Thomas Newman
Where to Watch
Streaming availability data provided by JustWatch via TMDB. Click a logo to visit the provider's official website.
Similar Movies
Once Upon a Time in America
1984
Beyond Silence
1996
Leaving Las Vegas
1995
Monsoon Wedding
2001
Head-On
2004
Batman Forever
1995
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1958
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1966
Love Actually
2003
Notorious
1946
The King
1973
Cid
1974
The Seventh Seal
1957
Amadeus
1984
Casablanca
1943
Mambo Italiano
2003
21 Grams
2003
Romeo + Juliet
1996
Sissi
1955
Bollywood/Hollywood
2002
Recommendations
Ghost
1990
Autumn in New York
2000
What Dreams May Come
1998
City of Angels
1998
Evening
2007
The In Between
2022
Mr. K
2025
Moonlight Mile
2002
Restless
2011
Romeo and Juliet
1968
West Side Story
1961
The Age of Adaline
2015
Purple Hearts
2022
Winter's Tale
2014
Love at First Sight
2023
Regretting You
2025
Life in a Year
2020
Edward Scissorhands
1990
A Ghost Story
2017
Five Feet Apart
2019
User Reviews (0)
Sign in with Google to post a rating and review.
- No reviews yet. Be the first to share your thoughts.
User Reviews from TMDB
Wuchak
December 20, 2019
***Captivating commentary on love, life and death*** The Grim Reaper (i.e. the Angel of Death) comes to take billionaire industrialist Bill Parrish (Anthony Hopkins) but instead decides to take a holiday in the corporeal universe by possessing the body of a young man (Brad Pitt). Death's deal with Parrish is that, as long as he's entertained, he'll delay Bill's death. Mr. Death materializes as a mysterious stranger with child-like qualities known as 'Joe Black.' His "holiday" is complicated w…
tensharpe
February 3, 2023
Joe Black ( Brad Pitt ) as the Grim Reaper arrives on the doorstep of wealthy businessman Bill Parrish ( Anthony Hopkins ) after borrowing a body of a man killed that morning. After experiencing chest pains and hearing voices Bill Parish is due to die and Joe has come to escort him to the other side. Bill, playing for more time, engages with Joe and manages to persuade him to spend a little more time on earth. Joe’s interest in humanity and experiencing life is particularly heightened when he an…
CinemaSerf
February 8, 2024
Billionaire "Parrish" (Sir Anthony Hopkins) is feeling a bit under the weather as his birthday approaches, and a potential corporate merger looms too. His daughter "Sarah" (Claire Forlani) is, meantime, rather keen on one of his hotshot employees "Drew" (Jake Weber) who is a driving force behind the impending and lucrative business deal. "Parrish" is clearly unwell, and after a scare that looks like an heart attack, he finds a new character in his life. The blonde and piercing-eyed Brad Pitt who…
Hadam10Rose
March 9, 2025
Death takes a holiday. Not only the name of the play it was based off, but the general premise of the film. A real fish out of water story, with death trying to understand life and why people don't usually want to give it up. I can see this film not ageing well for those on the left who demand changes to older films or scenes cut. With them not understanding that death talks to people in their own voice. So that's why we the audience heard Joe speaking like the Jamaican women who was in the hosp…