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Monday, June 25, 2018











     Meet Joe Black
1998  PG-13  DRAMA  3h 1min
CAST— Anthony Hopkins, Brad Pitt, Claire Forlani, Jake Weber, Marcia Gay Harden, Jeffrey Tambor, David S. Howard
MUSIC— Thomas Newman  DIRECTOR— Martin Brest

     An interesting concept: Death personified (played by a frightfully blonde Brad Pitt) enters our world with child-like innocence and discovers friendship, romance, and peanut butter. When he comes to claim the life of media mogul Anthony Hopkins he decides to delay the inevitable so as to observe the man in action. He gets more than he bargained for when he meets Hopkins’ daughter, a sensitive doctor in a loveless relationship. As the clock winds down love blooms between the two, while daddy counsels them both in the ways of romance. If only it didn’t take so darn long! What easily could have taken two hours is needlessly stretched out to three. It seems that death does take a holiday.
OUR RATING— ** ½
ORIGINAL— Death Takes a Holiday (1934/1971)
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