Stars: Bruce Willis, Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn, Isabella Rossellini, Michelle Johnson, Ian Ogilvy, Adam Storke, Mary Ellen Trainor, William Frankfather, Sydney Pollack, Fabio, John Ingle

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Summary: Madeline is gaining more wrinkles than screen roles. Her friend, Helen, loses her fiance to Madeline and subsequently doubles her weight. Finally, there's Madeline's husband, Ernest, a plastic surgeon who spends his nights drunk and cursing the day he met his wife. Enter a beautiful enchantress who changes their lives, and deaths, forever.

An overweight woman loses her alcoholic plastic surgeon boyfriend to an aging star and immediately doubles her weight. An enchantress puts a spell on the women that makes them immortal -- no matter how dead they get.

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If Robert Zemeckis's mega-hit Forrest Gumpwas 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 Evelook 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 Gumpand Contact) possible. The digital video disc includes a short feature on the movie's production. --Jim Emerson, Amazon.com

Aspect Ratio:	1.85 Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Subtitles:	Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Norwegian, Portuguese, Swedish
Year:	1992
Release Date:	June 1, 2009
Runtime:	99 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	9066581
Keywords:	Death, Comedy, General, Her, Wide, Screen, Becomes
Genre:	Comedy