The Old Woman and the Death | Meet Joe Black | CLIP

The actress who played the lady was Lois Kelly Miller. She lived to be 102!

The elderly lady in the wheel chair…superb acting. A true Jamaican theater & screen actress. RIP Queen.

This is a scene I used to show in my drama class. In a space of two minutes, the old Jamaican lady exhibits a vast degree of emotions and dispositions. She shows fear, then apprehension, followed by curiosity, then pain, then yearning, and lastly, contentedness. She underplays her delivery with hardly a hand gesture and all in the confines of a wheelchair, yet her performance is so powerful. Her delivery is flawless. Props to director, Martin Brest in allowing the actors to take their time in their delivery and allowing the scene to breathe. The perfect musical cue of strings coming followed with the piano tinkle delivered with pinpoint accuracy to accentuate what is already a very powerful moment. All of these things are what makes this scene the best scene in the movie.

For those who don't know. This is a remake of death takes a holiday. In my opinion, this is better than the original.

Easy to forget amid the drama what a talented actor Pitt was.

A very perceptive old woman there. Spotted him right off the bat

One of my very favorite movies. Brad Pitt as Death that comes for Anthony Hopkins and decides to stay a while in the body of Brad Pitt. Great story great acting. Should have been an award winner!

The woman playing the older lady in the wheelchair is an amazing actor.

This is the film that made me realize that Brad was one of the greatest actors on the planet & much more than just a pretty boy. I became a devoted Brad Pitt fan & this movie is a treasure!

True story. Back in 2012, my husband's great grandma was in the hospital, nearing her time. She was 97. A week before she passed, she asked if anyone else seen the man in black in the room. She seemed afraid of him. When we told her no, we couldn't see him, she said he told her he would come back later. A couple days before she passed, she said he came back, but she wasn't afraid anymore. I believe it was a spirit taking her to the Lord❤

This is one of my favorite movies of all time. The 2nd scene between them when he visits her and actually takes her is even more profound and moving. Incredible acting, especially by her.

Holy crap he was beautiful

Ive always been dead straight my entire life, from a child to now a grown man, but good lord that is a beautiful man.

That look on her face as he showed her…

“Excuse me nurse, i speak jive”

2:36 The way he shows her afterlife…😢

I’m not even someone who believes in an “afterlife”, but the way her face melts and smiles and looks so relieved- it just sends warm shivers through me. It’s such good acting. I hadn’t seen the whole movie before I saw this scene and loved it.

I miss films like these. The score compliments the emotions of the scene perfectly. The acting is flawless and believable. That is the Hollywood magic that is missing from todays "modern" movies.

I've never seen this movie but I've watched this scene numerous times. I'm captivated by it. Such superb acting.

Very underrated movie. Interesting study of facing end-of-life issues.