• StatusReleased
  • Release Date1998-11-12
  • Runtime178 minutes
  • TaglineSooner or later everyone does.
  • Revenue142,940,100$
  • GenreFantasy, Drama, Romance
  • Production
    CompaniesUniversal Pictures, City Light Films
  • Budget90,000,000$

Movie Overview

William Parrish, media tycoon and loving father, is about to celebrate his 65th birthday. One morning, he is contacted by the inevitable, by hallucination, as he thinks. Later, Death enters his home and his life, personified in human form as Joe Black. His intention was to take William with him, but accidentally, Joe and William's beautiful daughter Susan have already met. Joe begins to develop certain interest in life on Earth, as well as in Susan, who has no clue with whom she's flirting.

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