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Death Becomes Her (1992)

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    “Insistently grotesque, relentlessly misanthropic and spectacularly tasteless, Death Becomes Her isn’t a film designed to win the hearts of the mass moviegoing public. But it is diabolically inventive and very, very funny.” — Dave Kehr, Chicago Tribune

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    “They say you can’t cheat nature,” promises eternal youth…but at what cost? In this venomous Hollywood dark fantasy, director Robert Zemeckis turns a lifelong rivalry into a grotesque farce about beauty, decay, and the terror of aging. When Madeline (Meryl Streep) and Helen (Goldie Hawn) discover a potion that halts time but not death, their feud mutates into a macabre spectacle of fractured, reanimated bodies, with Ernest (Bruce Willis) left to maintain their impossible forms. Once dismissed as tasteless excess, Death Becomes Her now plays as a razor-edged satire of Hollywood’s pathological obsession with youth, where immortality becomes its own kind of living death: an endless preservation of surfaces long after anything human has disappeared. Recently adapted for Broadway, there’s never been a better time to discover (or revisit) this arsenic-laced comedy.

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    • Genre Black Comedy / Fantasy
    • Director Robert Zemeckis
    • Released 1992
    • Runtime 1h 44m
    • Rated PG-13
    • Studio Universal
    • CountryUSA

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    6.7/10 IMDB Rating
    58% Tomatometer
    62% Audience Score

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