agent of the Internal Revenue Service and threatening to put Drew in jail. In their father/daughter dance, Susan and Bill say goodbye. Fireworks begin, and on a hilltop above the party, Joe waits with tears in his eyes. Bill heads up to him, and they share their thoughts. Bill asks Joe if he should be afraid. He replies, "Not a man like you." As the fireworks explode in the distance, Susan watches Joe and her father cross a bridge at the top of the hill and descend out of sight on the other side. Susan stands stunned as "Joe" reappears alone and bewildered. He is again the young man from the coffee shop, uninjured and not comprehending where he is. Susan intuits that her father is gone, and the magnetism that she had shared with this young man has returned. "What do we do now?" she asks. "It'll come to us," he replies, as they descend hand-in-hand toward the party. Cast Brad Pitt as Death / "Joe Black" also the young man in the coffee shop who is borrowed by Death Anthony Hopkins as Bill Parrish Claire Forlani as Susan Parrish Jake Weber as Drew Marcia Gay Harden as Allison Parrish Jeffrey Tambor as Quince Parrish David S. Howard as Eddie Sloane Lois Kelly Miller as Jamaican Woman Marylouise Burke as Lillian June Squibb as Helen Production Filming Most of William Parrish's country mansion scenes were shot at the Aldrich Mansion in Rhode Island. The penthouse interiors and Parrish Communications offices were sets built at the 14th Regiment Armory in the South Slope neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. The place where Susan and the Young Man from the Coffee Shop first meet is Broadway Restaurant, at 2664 Broadway and West 101st Street, Manhattan. Versions A two-hour version was made to show on television and airline flights, by cutting most of the plotline involving Bill Parrish's business. Since Brest derided this edit of his film and disowned it, the director's credit was changed to the Hollywood pseudonym Alan Smithee. Reception Box office Meet Joe Black opened on November 13, 1998, and grossed $15,017,995 domestically upon its opening weekend (11/13-15) at #3, behind The Waterboys second weekend and the opening of I Still Know What You Did Last Summer. While the film had a disappointing domestic box office return of $44,619,100, it fared much better internationally. Taking in an additional $98,321,000, the