Death becomes her

Year of release : 1992

 

Run time : 1h44min

 

Genre : Fantasy / Dark Comedy / Satire

 

Starring : Meryl Streep,Goldie Hawn,Bruce Willis

 

Director : Robert Zemeckis

 

 

Death Becomes Her is a satirical surrealist dark comedy fantasy directed and produced by Robert Zemeckis, and written by David Koepp and Martin Donovan.

 

The movie centers around two rivals,a famous actress, Madeline Ashton, and a writer, Helen Sharp. Helen brings her fiance, Ernest Menville, to meet Madeline,to test his love,and he fails as he falls in love with Madeline and marries her.

Helen goes crazy, puts on a lot of weight,and ends up in a mental institution. There, she has a revelation,and loses the weight,writing a book about it.

 

About 14 years later they meet again and Helen looks younger than ever although she’s 50.

Madeline struggles with aging,and tries her best not to show any signs of growing old. She has young lovers and goes tirelessly to beauty salons for treatments.

Ernest lost his job as a respected surgeon and now beautifies the dead,since he’s a bit of an alcoholic.

 

Desperate to look young as she’s invited to Helen’s book party,Madeline goes to her beautician asking for a treatment to make her look young. There,the owner sends her to a mysterious woman,Lisle, who claims to be in her 70’s and gives her what I assume is a very expensive potion called ‘Siempre viva’,meaning immortal.

 

This is one of my favorite movies,there’s never a dull moment,the actors ,the scenery, are a joy to watch!The movie was funny and entertaining,the actors great,Meryl Streep was amazing!

 

The visuals,especially for that time, were great! And that is why the movie won the Oscar for the computer generated effects.

 

Although the movie received mixed reviews from critics, who loved the visual effects and performances but thought it lacked depth and substance, it was a box office success, making 149 million dollars from a budget of 55 million.

Before Bruce Willis was cast, Kevin Kline was the first choice, then Jeff Bridges and Nick Nolte.

 

Rating : The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of !