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Summary: This movie is the best
Review: This movie is great I like Brad Pitt in this playing death and I think he did a really great job at it. Anthony Hopkins is really great in this movie and he was just great his speech at the end of the movie at his birthday party was the greatest I almost cried but the end with Pitt and Hopkins standing on the hill talking I did start to cry it was really great actting. This movie really got me thinking about life and I am really glad that they many it because it got me thinking really hard. See this movie even if its not on DVD this movie is still the best on VHS.
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Summary: A Movie That Will Grab Your Attention!
Review: Meet Joe Black is a classic, romantic drama with a happy and at the same time sad ending. The peanut butter-loving guy, Death is played by Brad Pitt. In a two way game Death is trying to show the wealthy billionaire, Anthony Hopkins, that he is still a human and that his life is going to end soon, so he better enjoy it. While Death is doing that, he falls in love with the billionaire's precious daughter (the beautiful Claire Forlani). Pitt actually succeeds playing a goofy guy, and he grabs your heart. Joe Black has a very important job to do, but is surrounded with the dilemma of whether to chose to take the billionaire or the daughter.There are few other characters like Drew played by Jake Weber who is the guy that the father has chosen for his daughter and Jeffrey Tambor as Quince (the guy that would say anything to be liked from any powerful person) who add a lot of humor and rich acting to the movie. There are many strong, provoking and perfectly said lines that deserve the viewer's attention. The first half and hour of the movie I was kind of confused. I couldn't catch up to what was happening and more importantly why it was happening. This is the type of movie that you have to pay close attention to everybody and everything or the movie gets blurred. Meet Joe Black is a movie where the viewer has moments where he or she thinks about life and how to live it. The action in the movie is interesting and mysterious making viewers guess what will happened. Joe Black is keeping secret after secret, yet he is likeable. The movie makes you wonder if you truly appreciate life and everybody around you. I believe that the main idea of the movie is to show that people cannot buy happiness with money (even billions). My only one suggestion is that there are scenes that can be shorten like the one of the 65th birthday party near the end. Although it's a three hours long, it's still interesting and keeps your attention. Meet Joe Black is a sensitive movie that is full of emotions and will leave you with a smile on your face and deep thoughts in your mind. At least that's what happened to me. I was very impressed by the acting and the message that came with the movie. Meet Joe Black offers humor and a serious look at life that makes the movie one to see. Don't miss the chance to explore how much you know about life, responsibilities and chances. Meet Joe Black teaches you or maybe better, it makes you realize that you have to be ready to take on the fact that one day sooner or later your time to go will come. That's why people have to enjoy as much as they can the gift of life...
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Summary: "Thank you for the delicious cookies"
Review: MEET JOE BLACK
Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Claire Forlani, 1998 Synopsis
Death (Pitt) disguised as a man haunts and then spends a few weeks with a wealthy 65 year old man (Hopkins) who is about to be taken. Death then falls for the man's young beautiful daughter who is an Internal Medicine resident (a life giver). My Review
"Sure do like this peanut butter". Brad Pitt succeeds in acting as a goofy, out of place Grim Reaper in the body of a deceased man. However "Death" is not as charming in the real world. Ask any family he has visited. He is cruel, terrible and uncaring. Nevertheless the movie is interesting but a bit too long.
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Summary: LOVED IT!
Review: I loved this movie. I have watched it four times and will be watching it again and again. Although it is long and a little "draggy" in places, I thought the movie was excellent! Brad Pitt played his role so well and Claire Forlani was refreshing. This could be classified as a "Click Flick". It was a wonderful, weepy fairy tale with the happy ending.
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Summary: SPECTACULAR
Review: a friend of mine told me a coupleof times to watch this film meetjoe black i did and now it's oneof my all time movie favorites.alove story of this type comes along very seldom,brad pitt whoplays death gives a superb performmance.he gives his character a unique sence of reality his ominous persona affectionate approaches some times fine humora shy presence at times and yet has a aura of sensual magnitude.great actor.anthony hopkins delivers a great performance as the successful business man millionaire who's demise is imminent and who's transitionto the other side is guided by brad pitt death.one of hopkins daughters claire forlani in the film falls in love with brad pittand wonderful moments arise through out the filmn. a great cast lavishly done great cinematography great all aroundfilm i highly recommend this filmfor your entertainment pleasure a future classic.
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Summary: ANOTHER GREAT MOVIE ABOUT LIFE (AND DEATH)
Review: Before I begin, let me tell you to not be deceived by the "Special Edition" title. The so-called "Special Edition" is nothing more than a 15 minute Entertainment Tonight clip that is common to many movies looking to cash in on a "New and Improved Special Edition." The interviews are poor and the making of the movie is not covered in much detail.
But as for the film - the film is great. Anthony Hopkins, one of the best actors today, gives another great performance as a billionaire with a heart. Imagine that? :) A tale that only Hollywood could write in that Hopkin's character has the "fairy tale life" with a billion dollar business, a giant mansion and is given the chance to face his death before it occurs. A tear jerker for those that are touched by good romances and heart-throb stories. If you haven't seen this movie, you will not be disappointed. A "feel good" movie with excellent acting and directing.
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Summary: Beautiful, a real movie, classic style
Review: I waited so long to see this movie, but I'm so glad I finally did see it. What I would have missed! It was sensual, frightening, and finally romantic and moving. I cried so hard I had puffy eyes for a whole day. The film is gorgeous to look at in every way, has a lot to say about life, character, and time; but most of all, it's just a lovely well-acted film that satisfies in every way. The Jamaican actress and Pitt's conversations with her are spellbinding.
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Summary: A sweet, romantic film filled with good men and women
Review: A film in which Death is one of the principal characters seems an odd contrast with the beautifully done life-affirming message of this film. Like all really great art, the message here, loud and clear, is that decency and honor and compassion and love are precious, that the people we love are precious, and that being a slimy SOB only wins you more toys in the very short run. The romance that develops (and her hesitancy and fear of being hurt again) felt real. Wonderful acting all around, but Brad Pitt showed a range as his character learned how to live and to fall in love that suggests Pitt is larger than the "sexiest man" supermaket tabloid garbage. This movie will make you want to find someone you love and gratefully hold each other for a long, long time. It made me cry the way I haven't done over a film in quite a while. Very upbeat, sweet, and romantic!
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Summary: A fairy tale not a parable
Review: This is a wonderful heartful fairy tale, that is nonetheless, strangely moving. The problem is obvious.. Dead people do not, and can not come back to life. And broken dead bodies do not turn into mysteriously healed vehicles for any spirit. A genre started by the film "Ghost" has been carried to absurd proportions. But the idea of young life falling in love with the spirit of Death is fetching - if only to bring out the closeness of Love and Death, and also to describe the nature of love between the younger and older generations, especially within close (dysfunctional or not) families. Better than many things I have seen for months
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Summary: Fathers and Daughters
Review: A lavish remake of the 1971 television production of Death Takes a Holiday which in turn was a remake of the 1934 movie of the same name by Maxwell Anderson and Gladys Lehman in which Frederick March plays the Brad Pitt role of Death Incarnate. It features some wonderful acting particularily by Anthony Hopkins (Silence of the Lambs) as the father, Claire Forlani (Mall Rats) as the favorite daughter, Marcia Gay Harden (Millers Crossing) as the less favorite daughter who knows it and Jeffrey Tambor (Girl Interrupted) as a son-in-law. In the face of each of our own deaths, what is important in life? That is the question this movie considers, but to me, the relationships between the father and the two daughters are what makes this movie transcend the ordinary Hollywood film. Somehow Hopkins, Harden and Forlani, particularily, manifest their deep love for each other. Directed by Martin Brest (Scent of a Woman, Beverly Hills Cop) with a good score by Thomas Newman (Shawshank Redemption)
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