Death Becomes Her (1992) is an American dark 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 kill each other in their battle for the love of a neurotic plastic surgeon-turned-mortician, the potion revives them as the undead; and they are forced to maintain their deteriora...
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Death Becomes Her (1992) is an American dark 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 kill each other in their battle for the love of a neurotic plastic surgeon-turned-mortician, the potion revives them as the undead; and they are forced to maintain their deteriorating bodies forever. Death Becomes Her won the Academy Award for 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 by Tennessee Williams. Madeline's long-time rival Helen Sharp (Goldie Hawn), an aspiring writer, is taking in the show with her fiancé, plastic surgeon Ernest Menville (Bruce Willis), who is the only person in the audience...
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