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Death Becomes Her is a 1992 American dark slapstick screwball comedy fantasy film directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Goldie Hawn, Meryl Streep, and Bruce Willis. The film focuses on a childish pair of rivals who drink a magic potion that promises eternal youth.
However, after they both are killed in their fight for the love of a neurotic mortician, the potion revives them as the undead and they are forced to maintain their deteriorating bodies forever. Death Becomes Her won an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. Despite mixed reviews, the film was a commercial success.
In 1978 on... MORE
Death Becomes Her is a 1992 American dark slapstick screwball comedy fantasy film directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Goldie Hawn, Meryl Streep, and Bruce Willis. The film focuses on a childish pair of rivals who drink a magic potion that promises eternal youth.
However, after they both are killed in their fight for the love of a neurotic mortician, the potion revives them as the undead and they are forced to maintain their deteriorating bodies forever. Death Becomes Her won an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. Despite mixed reviews, the film was a commercial success.
In 1978 on Broadway in New York City, the narcissistic, manipulative, actress Madeline Ashton (Meryl Streep) performs in "Songbird", an ill-conceived musical version of Sweet Bird of Youth. Aspiring writer Helen Sharp (Goldie Hawn), Madeline's longtime rival, is taking in the show with her fiancé, plastic surgeon Ernest Menville (Bruce Willis), who is the only person in the audience enjoying himself. Helen and Ernest are invited to Madeline's dressing room, where Madeline shows an interest in Ernest. One night while Ernest is prepping for surgery Madeline invites him to dinner. Ernest tells Helen about his LESS
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