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Meet Joe Black
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69/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2409
- IMDb #1648
- Google retired #985
- Rotten Tomatoes #2824
- Metacritic #3534
- Letterboxd #1957
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3908
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1527
- Metacritic Critics #4047
- Metacritic Audience #2318
- Criticker #1983
- Douban #633
- Kinopoisk #189
- AlloCiné #1121
- Trakt #997
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Lowest is Metacritic critics on 43, highest is Google on 90. Critics average 46, everyone else 74.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A powerful media mogul is visited by a mysterious, curious young man who is, in fact, the embodiment of Death. Death has taken a human form to experience life and informs the mogul that he will be his guide. In exchange for a few more days of life, the mogul agrees to show Death the wonders of the human world. Complications arise when Death develops a deep affection for the mogul's daughter.
Details
- Director
- Martin Brest
- Writers
- Bo Goldman, Jeff Reno, Kevin Wade, Ron Osborn
- Based on
- Death Takes a Holiday
- Studio
- Universal Pictures, City Light Films
- Released
- 12 November 1998
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 178 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $90.0M
- Box office
- $142.9M
- Awards
- 1 win, 0 nominations
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| Bogey Awards 1999 | Bogey Awards | Winner |
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