"Meet Joe Black" - A Love Story of Death
"Meet Joe Black" is a romantic fantasy film, starring Brad Pitt and Claire Forlani. The screenplay by Bo Goldman, Kevin Wade, Ron Osborn and Jeff Reno is loosely based on the 1934 film Death Takes a Holiday.
Susan (Claire Forlani) daughter of William Parrish meets a vibrant young man at a coffee shop. He takes an interest in her and tells her that lightning may strike. She is enamored but parts without getting his name. Unbeknownst to her, the man is struck by multiple cars in a possibly fatal collision.
One morning, he is contacted by the inevitable, by hallucination, as he thinks. Later, Death enters his home and his life, in the uninjured body of the young man as Joe Black (Brad Pitt). His intention was to take William with him. Susan is confused by the appearance of Joe, believing him to be the young man from the coffee shop, but eventually falls deeply in love with him.
At the party Bill makes his peace with his daughters. Susan tells Joe that she has loved him ever since that day in the coffee shop.
Joe begins to develop certain interest in life on Earth, as well as in Susan, who has no clue with whom she's flirting.
STORYLINE
William Parrish (Sir Anthony Hopkins), media tycoon, loving father, and still a human being, is about to celebrate his 65th birthday.Susan (Claire Forlani) daughter of William Parrish meets a vibrant young man at a coffee shop. He takes an interest in her and tells her that lightning may strike. She is enamored but parts without getting his name. Unbeknownst to her, the man is struck by multiple cars in a possibly fatal collision.
One morning, he is contacted by the inevitable, by hallucination, as he thinks. Later, Death enters his home and his life, in the uninjured body of the young man as Joe Black (Brad Pitt). His intention was to take William with him. Susan is confused by the appearance of Joe, believing him to be the young man from the coffee shop, but eventually falls deeply in love with him.
At the party Bill makes his peace with his daughters. Susan tells Joe that she has loved him ever since that day in the coffee shop.
Joe begins to develop certain interest in life on Earth, as well as in Susan, who has no clue with whom she's flirting.
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