Meet Joe Black
Meet Joe Black is a 1998 American romantic fantasy drama film directed and produced by Martin Brest, starring Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, and Claire Forlani. 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. 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.
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Mr. Bad News. 'Bout time you show up. Don't be feisty, sister. I'm not feisty, mister. You come for me? That's good news. No, I come to see the doctor. - Doctor? - Mm-hmm. - What could be wrong with you? - Nothin'. Ohh. You come to see doctor lady? - Yeah, man. - My doctor lady? Mine too, you know. You're in love? You're loved back? She know your real self? - She know how she feel. - Backside! What the hell kind of business this is. Don't need you okayin'. Schoolboy things in your head. Badness for you. Badness for her. Badness for me, lyin' here, tumor big as a breadfruit, poisonin' me inside, and waitin'. Bring you flowers, and all I's gettin' is aggravation. The only flowers I want to see... is the ones over my peaceful self resting in the dirt. Can't do no right by people. Come to take you, you want to stay. Leave you stay, you want to go. Rahtid.
Meet Joe Black
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Somebody want me here. Hmm. It nice it happen to you. Like you come to the island and had a holiday. Sun didn't burn you red-red, just brown. You sleep, and no mosquito eat you. But the truth is, it bound to happen... if you stay long enough. So take that nice picture you got in your head home with you, but don't be fooled. We lonely here mostly too. If we lucky, maybe... we got some nice pictures to take with us. You got enough nice pictures? Yes. Good-bye, sister. Yes? I have the feeling, all in all, what I made this voyage for has served its purpose.
Meet Joe Black
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It's like you know each other's secrets, your deepest, darkest secrets. - Deepest, darkest secrets? - Yeah, and then you... you're free. Free? You're free! You're free to I... love each other completely, totally. Just no fear. So there's nothing you don't know about each other, and it's okay.
Meet Joe Black