Meet Joe Black

Martin Brest produced and directed this Death Takes a Holiday remake, scripted by Ron Osborn, Jeff Reno, Kevin Wade, and Bo Goldman. On vacation to Earth, Death (Brad Pitt) experiences human emotions as he learns about life from a businessman (Anthony Hopkins) — while the businessman’s daughter (Claire Forlani) teaches him about love. Filmed in Warwick, Rhode Island, and New York., The Grim Reaper comes to Earth to retrieve a media tycoon shortly before his 65th birthday, but agrees to grant him a little more time if the mogul will teach him about life’s pleasures. The doomed man jumps at the chance, but doesn’t foresee that Death will fall in love with his beautiful daughter., A wealthy tycoon whose life is orderly and happy finds his household disrupted by the arrival of a young man called Joe Black. His daughter falls for the young man innocent of the fact that Joe is Death, visiting Earth to take the life of her father…, The Grim Reaper grants a tycoon a few extra days of life in this remake of 1934’s “Death Takes a Holiday”.