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Death Becomes Her |  | Director: Robert Zemeckis
Actors: Meryl Streep, Bruce Willis, Goldie Hawn, Isabella Rossellini, Ian Ogilvy
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
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Rating:  133 reviews
Sales Rank: 948
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Running Time: 104 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 025192014321
ISBN: 0783225482
UPC: 025192014321
EAN: 9780783225487
ASIN: 0783225482
Theatrical Release Date: July 31, 1992
Release Date: January 20, 1998
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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If Robert Zemeckis's mega-hit Forrest Gump was too sweet for your taste, you may enjoy the undiluted bitterness of his previous movie, a cynical black comedy that was ahead of its time. Death Becomes Her, an outlandish parable about America's obsession with youth and vanity, exposes the corrosive side of Zemeckis's comic sensibility, the sort of scathing satirical edge he gleefully flourished in his overlooked 1980 Used Cars, which has developed a cult following. Meryl Streep has a ball as the deliciously vicious Madeline Ashton, a flamboyantly mannered actress who makes Bette Davis's formidable Margo Channing in All About Eve look like a wallflower. Goldie Hawn is also in razor-sharp comedic form as Madeline's long-time "best friend," Helen. Sensing a bargain she just can't resist, Madeline steals Helen's meek, plastic-surgeon husband Ernest (Bruce Willis) for her own convenience, and the two women become sworn enemies. But the real complications arise when the two are introduced to a secret anti-aging formula by a mysterious and exotic woman (Isabella Rossellini, delightfully ridiculous) that not only smoothes away wrinkles but actually guarantees immortality. As their undying bodies are twisted and mutilated by violent attacks on each other, both women grow increasingly dependent on Ernest for cosmetic repair. The pioneering digital effects inflicted on Streep and Hawn are as grotesque as they are imaginative and hilarious. Like James Cameron (The Abyss, Titanic), Zemeckis loves a technical challenge, and the new visual tools developed for this movie made his later work (in Forrest Gump and Contact) possible. --Jim Emerson
Product Description
Life and death interactions of an aging actress, a former friend, an unhappy husband, and a potion of immortality.
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 The best and most creative movie plot ever made!! September 8, 2010
LovingMusic
This movie is one of my all-time favorites!! I could write 10 pages of reviews expressing how I feel about this flick. But I am tired of being on FB,youtube, emails,ect.. lol. Case in point: It is the most creative and well written and well-acted "script" ever implemented in Hollywood. When do u ever see 4 or 5 of the best actors colabrating on a great narrative? This movie has it all! The continuous "comic relief" is what makes this movie spin! You can't get enough of this movie. I guarantee you will be sitting and pressing that rewind button until you've had enough! lol They don't make movies much like this anymore.
Word is the director wanted to include it in tales fromt he crypt and then decided at the last minute to go solo on this one! great choice!!
Wild and wicked ways! August 18, 2010
E. A Solinas (MD USA)
Everybody knows that Hollywood is full of people who would sell their soul for youth and beauty, but ... literally? They come pretty close in "Death Becomes Her," a delightfully wicked, twisted black comedy directed by Robert Zemeckis -- the dialogue is wonderfully barbed, the comedy is warped, and the quartet of lead actors give the performances of a lifetime.
Years ago, starlet Madeline Ashton (Meryl Streep) stole plastic surgeon Ernest Menville (Bruce Willis) from her longtime rival, dowdy writer Helen Sharp (Goldie Hawn). Consumed by hatred for Madeleine, Helen becomes an obese recluse and is eventually locked up in a mental institution.
Present day (and by that, I mean the 1980s): Madeline and Ernest (now a harpyish has-been and an alcoholic undertaker) appear at the signing for Helen's bestselling book -- and are shocked to see that she's now a stunning youthful bombshell. This drives Madeline to seek out the services of Lisle von Rhoman (Isabella Rossellini), a sensual sorceress who sells her a potion that restores her youth. A small warning: "Take care of your body." Easier said than done.
Meanwhile, Helen and Ernest have been plotting to kill her, and a fight leads to Madeleine falling down the stairs and twisting her head 180 degrees. She's not dead... but not really alive either. And the problem is, Helen has had the same treatment -- meaning that when Madeleine gets her revenge, her rival doesn't die either. Is there a way out of this mess, or are the ladies doomed to eternal unlife?
If you like moral messages with your warped comedy, here's "Death Becomes Her's": a short life lived to the fullest is way better than an empty endless one, and shallow people who try to stay eternally young are pathetic. Nobody can argue with that, but that's not the reason people watch this movie. They watch it for the wickedly warped wit and the hilarious trio of actors.
Zemeckis does an absolutely brilliant job with the sort of gothic-screwball plot, which is the perfect mix of ghoulish humor and slapstick. The dialogue is full of witty barbs ("You're a fraud, Helen! You're a walking lie and I can see right through you!"), and hilarious dialogue ("They took her to the morgue." "The morgue? She'll be FURIOUS!"). And some of the scenes here will make you howl your head off, such as the grand finale -- why can't more movies end this brilliantly?
Additionally, Zemeckis brought out the best in all three lead actors. I don't really like Hawn's acting, and tend to consider Willis' mixed -- but Streep and Hawn are deliciously catty, shallow and a little crazed, playing a pair of thoroughly repulsive women. Willis plays Ernest as a depressed mortician who gets increasingly frantic as the story goes on, and Isabella Rossellini is brilliant as the beauty-obsessed sorceress.
"Death Becomes Her" is the sort of movie I wish they would make more often -- a wild, hilarious dark comedy with a twisted streak a mile wide. A must see.
Death August 6, 2010
A. Szarka (Hawaii)
What a great film with such good people in it. Meryl Streep is great like always and Goldie Hawn is funny as well. Isabella Rossellini is also good in this. I didn't even recongize her from "Blue Velvet." Death Becomes Her is really funny and wicked. The two ladies both die but come back to life with different problems and Bruce Willis is the guy caught in the middle of it all. There is nothing bad I can say about "death." It's a must see film. When I saw it in the store when I was younger, I always thought it was a horror film. Boy was I real off about that.
 Too Cute August 5, 2010
Ron Braithwaite (El Indio, Texas United States)
Like they say,it's all in the eyes of the beholder. Most of the people who have reviewed this movie loved it. I laughed in a few areas but, overall, I was left with a feeling that something was missing [pardon the pun]. I thought it was too cute and too campy by half. I liked the beautiful temptress and I thought Willis, by stepping out of his usual routine tough guy roles, was great. Hawn and Streep bouncing off one another didn't do much for me. Then again, in matters of taste, there is no dispute and, overall, the film is well done and scripted.
BLU-RAY BLU-RAY BLU-RAY! August 4, 2010
Natalie (Fabulous Las Vegas)
I agree with the assesment that this movie is awesome, but it should be on Blu-Ray, since the visuals are its main attraction. This film won multiple special effects awards (including the Oscar) so it's downright criminal for it to only be in *grainy DVD* form.
Who's with me?!
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