She realizes that Joe is part of her impending death. At Susan's hospital, Joe interacts with a terminally ill woman, who wishes to die to escape her constant physical pain. He then suggests to Susan that Joe won't be around much longer. After they dress, Joe asks Susan, "What do we do now?" She replies, "It'll come to us." Bill inadvertently walks in and sees them kissing.īill angrily confronts Joe about his relationship with his daughter. She falls deeply in love, while Joe is now under the influence of human desires and a magnetic attraction to her, and they have sex. Intrigued by Joe's naivete, Susan realizes he is very different from the young man she met in the coffee shop. Using information from Bill's son-in-law, Quince, Drew pushes for merger approval which Bill now opposes. Drew secretly conspires with Parrish Communications, capitalizing on Bill's strange behavior and reliance on Joe to convince the board of directors to vote Bill out as chairman. Susan tries to understand his intentions, noting that he seems different from the man she met in the coffee shop.īill fails to keep events from going rapidly out of his control. He later wanders through the palatial house, learning to adapt. They both return to the dinner table and under pressure to make an introduction, Bill creates an impromptu name for the young man, introducing him to the family as "Joe Black." Joe Black, having no sophisticated human qualities, doesn't seem to know how to drink or eat, or how to use food and utensils. Given Bill's "competence, experience, and wisdom", Death says that for as long as Bill will be his guide on Earth, Bill will not have to die. Death explains that Bill's impassioned speech to his daughter piqued his interest. Slowly materializing, the voice identifies itself as "Death" and is now inhabiting the young man's body. That evening, Bill hears the voice again and it summons him to a room. Unbeknownst to her, directly afterward, he is struck fatally by multiple cars. Stunned, she departs without getting his name. He also says "lightning could strike", and they form a connection. While studying in a coffee shop, Susan meets a vibrant young man. Arriving in his office, Bill has sharp pains in his chest and hears the voice again, saying, "Yes." When the company helicopter lands, he hears a mysterious voice, which he tries to ignore. His younger daughter Susan, a resident in internal medicine, has a relationship with Drew, a member of Bill's board.Īs Bill contemplates Susan's planned marriage to Drew and realizes that she is not deeply in love, he suggests she wait to be swept off of her feet, suggesting "lightning could strike". Meanwhile, his eldest daughter, Allison, is planning an elaborate 65th birthday party for him. Media mogul Bill Parrish is contemplating a merger with another media giant. The screenplay was written by Bo Goldman, Kevin Wade, Ron Osborn, and Jeff Reno, and is loosely based on the 1934 film Death Takes a Holiday, an adaptation of the 1924 Italian play La morte in vacanza by Alberto Casella. Celebrating his 65th birthday, businessman and devoted family man Bill Parrish is visited by Death, who wants to know what it's like to be human in return for giving Bill extra days of his life. Meet Joe Black is a 1998 American romantic fantasy mystery film directed and produced by Martin Brest, starring Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, and Claire Forlani.
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