
Sooner or later everyone does.
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?
- 7.4
- 1998
- Released
- 2h 58m

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
David S. Howard
Eddie Sloane
Lois Kelly-Miller
Jamaican Woman
Jahnni St. John
Jamaican Woman's Daughter
Richard Clarke
Butler
Marylouise Burke
Lillian
Diane Kagan
Jennifer
June Squibb
Helen
Gene Canfield
Construction Foreman
Suzanne Hevner
Florist
Steve Coats
Electrician
Madeline Balmaceda
Madeline
Julie Lund
Drew's Secretary
Kay Gaffney
Boardmember
Anthony Kane
Boardmember
Joe H. Lamb
Boardmember
Robert C. Lee
Boardmember
Jim Taylor McNickle
Boardmember
Hardy Phippen Jr.
Boardmember
Stephen Adly Guirgis
Hospital Receptionist
Leo Marks
Party Waiter
Michelle Youell
Party Guest
Gene Leverone
Party Guest



Released
en
$90,000,000.00
$142,940,100.00
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- #broken engagement
- #love at first sight
- #fireworks
- #religion and supernatural
- #based on play or musical
- #fate
- #teenage crush
- #grim reaper
- #doctor
- #millionaire
- #death personified
- #death incarnate
- #angel of death
- #romantic
- #appreciative
- #compassionate
Reviews
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

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 li
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 t

***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











