***SPOILERS*** Somewhat of a remake of a 1962 "Twilight Zone" episode called "Nothing in the Dark" with a 25 year old Robert Redford as Mr. Death in here we have Jason Alexander in the same role as the "Grim Reaper". Mr Death after some four billion years of ending the lives of people as well as all living creatures on earth tried to call it quits by him putting an end to it all by hanging himself.
At the hospital emergency ward the doctor in charge Dr. Jay Ferguson, Tyler Christopher, is shocked to see that his patient, Mr. Death, miraculously survived being hung for 22 straight hours! It takes a while for Dr. Furguson to absorb what Mr. Death tells him about him being reasonable for all the deaths on earth since, because of the "Bing Bang", it came into existence 4.5 billion years ago. Thinking that the guy is off his rocker Dr. Fersuson suggests he get psychotic help until he checks the morning papers, at Mr. Death's urging, and sees in the obituary column that no one died over the last 24 hours while Mr. Death was incapacitated! Even worse at the hospital emergency ward all the people who are supposed to be dead, from natural causes as well as accidents or being murdered, are not only alive but in excoriating pain.
****SPOILERS**** What really gets to the now very puzzled Dr. Ferguson is that his long dead mother, Joyce Krenz, has suddenly come back to life in the hospice ward begging her son to have he put back to sleep, or death, so she won't have to suffer anymore and forever rest in peace! Despite wanting to quit his job as Mr. Death he realizes the fact that without death there's no life and the life that's left is to be in an eternal state of suffering and decides to get back to work. And the the first thing on his agenda is to give Dr. Ferguson who's been working around the clock for the last three days without sleep, and popping pills to stay awake, the eternal rest that he so rightfully and unselfishly earned for himself!
At the hospital emergency ward the doctor in charge Dr. Jay Ferguson, Tyler Christopher, is shocked to see that his patient, Mr. Death, miraculously survived being hung for 22 straight hours! It takes a while for Dr. Furguson to absorb what Mr. Death tells him about him being reasonable for all the deaths on earth since, because of the "Bing Bang", it came into existence 4.5 billion years ago. Thinking that the guy is off his rocker Dr. Fersuson suggests he get psychotic help until he checks the morning papers, at Mr. Death's urging, and sees in the obituary column that no one died over the last 24 hours while Mr. Death was incapacitated! Even worse at the hospital emergency ward all the people who are supposed to be dead, from natural causes as well as accidents or being murdered, are not only alive but in excoriating pain.
****SPOILERS**** What really gets to the now very puzzled Dr. Ferguson is that his long dead mother, Joyce Krenz, has suddenly come back to life in the hospice ward begging her son to have he put back to sleep, or death, so she won't have to suffer anymore and forever rest in peace! Despite wanting to quit his job as Mr. Death he realizes the fact that without death there's no life and the life that's left is to be in an eternal state of suffering and decides to get back to work. And the the first thing on his agenda is to give Dr. Ferguson who's been working around the clock for the last three days without sleep, and popping pills to stay awake, the eternal rest that he so rightfully and unselfishly earned for himself!