After 27 Years, Brad Pitt's Criminally Underrated Fantasy Drama Found New Life on Netflix Top 10

Netflix is taking over the world: to watch a new Martin Scorsese movie or a comedy with Adam Sandler, all you have to do is turn on your laptop.

Streaming services are giving famous directors fantastic opportunities, bringing forgotten movies back to life and giving us a new reason to talk about them.

One such "resurrected" movie is Meet Joe Black – an underrated and almost forgotten drama starring Brad Pitt made it into the top 10 most watched movies on Netflix.

What Is Meet Joe Black About?

Death visits the world of the living to better understand it. He is particularly interested in the personality of 65-year-old influential media magnate Bill Parrish, whose life is about to be cut short by a heart attack.

As a physical vessel, Death chooses the body of a young, handsome man who has just met Parrish's daughter, Susan. This man is introduced as Joe Black, and love soon grows between him and Susan.

Meet Joe Black Was One of the Actor's Attempts to Escape the Good-Boy Image

Brad Pitt was already a famous actor when he starred in Meet Joe Black. By that time, he was tired of playing good-looking boys and wanted to portray a truly complex character with flaws – that's how David Fincher's thriller Seven came to be.

After this experiment, the actor took on another rather unusual role – Pitt played Death himself in Meet Joe Black.

However, critics panned the actor's work. His performance was criticized for emptiness, but many Pitt fans will disagree – this emptiness gave Joe Black more mystery. And not every Hollywood star would agree to be hit by a car in one of the first scenes.

Meet Joe Black Is Another Spectacular Collaboration Between Pitt and Hopkins

Meet Joe Black has a brilliant cast. In addition to Brad Pitt, you can see Anthony Hopkins, Claire Forlani, and Marcia Gay Harden.

Anthony Hopkins and Brad Pitt starred together in Legends of the Fall, where they played father and son. But the real chemistry between their characters is much better seen in Meet Joe Black: a young handsome man who knows nothing about life and an aging strong man on the verge of death are completely opposite to each other.

Meet Joe Black Is Made by the Scent of a Woman Creator

The director of the movie was Martin Brest, a man who by that time had already managed to become famous, having made such classics as Scent of a Woman. And Meet Joe Black is in no way inferior to the author's previous creation.

The director took up the question that the best thinkers of humanity have been trying to answer for thousands of years. And the solution presented in the movie seems to be a very simple, coherent and easy answer.

Life is a rest from eternity. And during that rest you should collect good memories and try not to stay too long, so as not to burn in the sun.