Thomas Newman’s music will stay with you long after the credits roll.
🎭 As media mogul Bill Parrish, Hopkins gives a performance of immense dignity. He isn’t playing a man afraid of death; he is playing a man trying to perfect his legacy before the clock runs out. His speech about "the corner of somewhere and nowhere" is poetry. Meet Joe Black -1998
, you’re missing out on one of the most hauntingly beautiful romantic dramas ever made. Thomas Newman’s music will stay with you long
Is perfect? No. The subplot involving a corporate takeover (featuring Jake Weber as a scheming son-in-law) feels like a generic 90s thriller stuffed into a poetry book. The three-hour runtime does test the limits of the average viewer. Meet Joe Black -1998