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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Death and taxes.

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~ Happy birthday to you ~ ~ Happy birthday to you ~ ~ Happy birthday dear William ~ ~ Happy birthday to you ~ Speech! Speech! Speech! Speech! Speech! Speech! Thank you.

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- I thought I was gonna sneak away tonight. - No! What a glorious night. Every face I see is a memory. It may not be a perfectly perfect memory. Uh, sometimes we had our ups and downs. But we're all together, and you're mine for a night. And I'm gonna break precedent and tell you my one candle wish. That you would have a life as lucky as mine, where you can wake up one morning and say, "I don't want anything more. " Sixty-five years. Don't they go by in a blink?

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Hi. Oh. What a night. I'm having a hell of a time.

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You were right... about Joe. He, uh... He is going somewhere.

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I'm sorry.

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You relieved?

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Yes, but... But what?

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I want you to know how much I love you, that you've given a meaning to my life that I had no right to expect, that no one can ever take from me. - Dad... - No! I love you so much. And I want you to promise me something. I don't want you to ever worry about me. And if anything should happen, I'm gonna be okay. And everything's gonna be all right. And I have no regrets. And I want you to feel the same way. I love you, Daddy. That's why it's okay. No regrets? No regrets. That's a good feeling, isn't it? Yeah.

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Everybody's saying good-bye.

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I'm still here.

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Would you like to dance with me, Susan?

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Yeah.

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If you don't mind dancing with an old fogey like me. Oh, Dad, you're not old.

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You'll never be old.

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Can I get you anything, sir? No. Do you have any peanut butter?

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Uh, I don't think so, sir. Mmm. Thank you anyway. You're welcome.

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What's that? The fireworks are starting. Let's go down and watch.

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- Shall we? - You go on ahead, honey. I'm just gonna catch my breath.

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Okay.

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