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Flawed Excellence
An otherwise excellent DVD is spoiled by one major flaw. The soft-toned characters' dialogue in the last few minutes of the film is completely drowned out by the loud background music. A ruined ending of a really good DVD. There is one other minor flaw. When most DVDs are opened the menu appears before the main feature. Not so, here. To reach the main menu the menu button on the DVD player must be clicked after the feature has started. This is a minor annoyance.

Great date movie
This movie didn't even make it onto my radar screen when it was released. I can't remember why I rented it, but I remember being pleasantly surprised at what a well-acted, well-scripted, charming movie it was. Very upbeat for a movie that is about a guy who is about to die. Very sentimental, but not too sappy. Excellent score by Thmas Newman (cousin of Randy Newman, composer of many popular film scores). Don't miss Izzy Kamakawewa'ole's version of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World" at the end- It's been featured on more than a couple of commercials because it's such a great tune.

Peanut Butter Man

A little about the story:
In the first scene, we see William Parrish (Hopkins) sleepless and tired and also hearing a voice whipsering a distinguised "Yes".
We begin seeing Allison Parrish (Marcia Gay Harden) organize a grand birthday party for her father William Parrish (Anthony Hopkins). While his other daughter, Susan Parrish (Claire Forlani) is busy working at the hospital and dating his dad's right hand man Drew (Jake Weber).
On her way to work one morning, stopping at a coffee shop, Susan glances at a enigmatic man on the phone. After this stranger comes out from using the phone, Susan has a conversation with him that won't leave her mind.
Later that night, William has a strange feeling that there is someone at the door, and orders his maid to lead the gentlemen into the study. Going into the study, we first see nothing but an illumination of a person behind frosted glass. The voice seems to be identical to that of the "Yes" William heard last night.
The person emerges to be a well dressed man who William later introduces as Joe Black(Brad Pitt) who later develops a delicious fetish for peanut butter.

A little about the movie in it's entirety:

Before I begin, I wanted to make sure that you know that this movie is modeled after "Death Takes a Holiday" a 1934 motion picture.
After hearing so many horrible things about the movie, I had to see it for myself, because I couldn't stand not seeing a movie with Anthony Hopkins in it. Turns out, I believe all those people are fortunately wrong.
I absolutely loved Anthony's performance, especially the scenes where he reminisced his wife and gave advice to Claire, who also, along with Brad Pitt, achingly believable performances.
All in all, I believe that this movie couldn't have possibly made the same impact on me as it did, if Thomas Newman didn't score it. I absolutely loved the music of this movie and if Anthony Hopkins didn't get the nominations he deserved, I say Thomas is right up there with Anthony.
The only reason why I would give it 4.5/5 is that although, everything was great, it was also very lengthy which somehow took a little bit of the entire charm off.

My Rating: 4.5/5

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