Meet Joe Black [videorecording] / Universal Pictures presents a City Lights Films production ; screenplay by Ron Osborn & Jeff Reno and Kevin Wade and Bo Goldman ; produced and directed by Martin Brest.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Edition:
Widescreen ed. ; ultimate ed.
Publisher:
Universal,
Copyright Date:
2001, c1998
Description:
2 videodiscs (ca. 300 min.) : sd., col. & B & W ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet laid in container.
Meet Joe Black: Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Claire Forlani, Jake Weber, Marcia Gay Harden, Jeffrey Tambor. Death takes a holiday: Fredric March, Evelyn Venable, Sir Guy Standing, Kent Taylor, Katharine Alexander, Helen Westley, Harry Travers. Meet Joe Black was originally released as a motion picture in 1998. Death takes a holiday was originally released as a motion picture in 1934.
Contents:
Disc 1: Meet Joe Black (180 min.) -- Special features: production notes ; cast & filmmakers' biographies ; film highlights. Disc 2: Death takes a holiday (80 min.) -- Special features for Meet Joe Black: photograph montage ; spotlight on location ; theatrical trailers.
Summary:
Meet Joe Black: Death appears to claim a man who bargains for more time, during which Death falls in love with his daughter. Death takes a holiday: Death poses as a mortal man to find out more about humans. When he stays at the Duke Lambert's estate posing as a prince, he falls in love with the duke's daughter, even though she's betrothed to someone else.
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