Meet Joe Black (1998) Meet Joe Black: William Parrish's birthday is drawing near. He is 64 years old. He has been a good man: a good business man with his own telecommunications company and a very dear father for his daughters Susan and Allison; but death is waiting for him.
As modern soundtrack scores go, the quality can be hit or miss, but Thomas Newman's work is almost always something to get excited about, as evidenced in the Oscar-nominated The Shawshank Redemption, Road to Perdition, and the title theme for Six Feet Under. His score for Meet Joe Black contains the seeds of beauty that would fully flower on his score for American Beauty, the next film he scored and a high point of his career. 'Whisper of a Thrill,' the soaring romantic theme, is a perfect distillation of the film's emotional plot, its yearning melody shadowing Joe Black's (Brad Pitt) love for the beautiful Susan (played by Claire Forlani) and its ultimate futility. As romantic themes go, Newman's ranks as a recent classic that captures both the initial rush of love and also the devastating crush of its leaving. Newman skillfully weaves this theme into the rest of the score, and its sweeping sentimentality is flexible enough to be incorporated into other melodic themes, such as the denouement of 'Someone Else.' For the most part, gentle strings and woodwinds dominate, with gentle piano work reserved for special, heart-tugging moments. But the score is also quite playful, as on 'Peanut Butter Man,' where a flute meanders over bouncing strings, and also in the quick, percussive staccato of the middle-eight. This is an excellent score, an achievement from any composer, and something that ranks up near the top of Thomas Newman's work.
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| 2 | 01:45 | |||
| 3 | 01:52 | |||
| 4 | 01:44 | |||
| 5 | 01:43 | |||
| 6 | 05:43 | |||
| 7 | 01:25 | |||
| 8 | 01:44 | |||
| 9 | 01:12 | |||
| 10 | 00:55 | |||
| 11 | 01:17 | |||
| 12 | 01:24 | |||
| 13 | 00:47 | |||
| 14 | 01:37 | |||
| 15 | 01:23 | |||
| 16 | 01:25 | |||
| 17 | 05:19 | |||
| 18 | Bob Thiele / George David Weiss | 03:28 | ||
| 19 | 10:10 | |||
| 20 | Harold Arlen / E.Y. 'Yip' Harburg / Bob Thiele / George David Weiss | feat: Israel Kamakawiwo'ole | 04:53 |
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Meet the Blacks is a 2016 American comedy film directed by Deon Taylor, written by Taylor and Nicole DeMasi, and is a parody of the 2013 film The Purge. It stars Mike Epps, Gary Owen, Zulay Henao, Lil Duval, Bresha Webb, George Lopez and Mike Tyson, and was released on April 1, 2016, by Freestyle Releasing.
After having stolen money from a famed criminal drug king (Charlie Murphy) and believing that he will be imprisoned for the next five to six years, Carl Black (Mike Epps) moves his family — consisting of his new wife, teenage daughter, vampire-wannabe son and fresh-out-of-prison cousin — to Beverly Hills, California on the same day when all crime becomes legal for a 12-hour period.
Meet the Blacks received negative reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 13%, based on 8 reviews, with an average rating of 2.2/10. On Metacritic, the film has a score of 26 out of 100, based on 4 critics, indicating “generally unfavorable reviews”
