Death Becomes Her
- Director: Robert Zemeckis
- Writer: Martin Donovan; David Koepp
- Producer: Joan Bradshaw; Steve Starkey
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In 1978, in Broadway, the decadent and narcissist actress Madeline Ashton is performing Songbird, based on Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth. Then she receives her rival Helen Sharp, who is an aspiring writer, and her fiancé Ernest Menville, who is a plastic surgeon, in her dressing-room. Soon Menville calls off his commitment with Helen and marries Madeline. Seven years later, Helen is obese in a psychiatric hospital and obsessed in seeking revenge on Madeline. In 1992, the marriage of Madeline and Menville is finished and he is no longer a surgeon but an alcoholic caretaker. Out of the blue, they are invited to a party where Helen will release her novel Forever Young and Madeline goes to a beauty shop. The owner gives a business card of the specialist in rejuvenation Lisle Von Rhuman to her. When the envious Madeline sees Helen thin in a perfect shape, she decides to seek out Lisle and buys a potion to become young again.
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Cast & Characters
Meryl Streep as Madeline Ashton;
Bruce Willis as Ernest Menville;
Goldie Hawn as Helen Sharp;
Isabella Rossellini as Lisle Von Rhuman;
Ian Ogilvy as Chagall;
Adam Storke as Dakota;
Nancy Fish as Rose;
Alaina Reed-Hall as Psychologist;
Michelle Johnson as Anna;
Mary Ellen Trainor as Vivian Adams;
William Frankfather as Mr. Franklin;
John Ingle as Eulogist;
Clement von Franckenstein as Opening Man;
Petrea Burchard as Opening Woman;
Jim Jansen as Second Man