Edited Version
A two-hour version was made to show on television and airline flights, by cutting most of the plotline involving Hopkins's character's business. As Brest derided this edit of his film and disowned it, the director's credit was changed to the Hollywood pseudonym Alan Smithee.
Read more about this topic: Meet Joe Black
Famous quotes containing the words edited and/or version:
“The New Yorker will be the magazine which is not edited for the old lady from Dubuque.”
—Harold W. Ross (1892–1951)
“I should think that an ordinary copy of the King James version would have been good enough for those Congressmen.”
—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)