Death Becomes Her (1992)

Average rating

(64%)

Starring:	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
Studio:	UNIVERSAL PICTURES UK
Run time:	99 mins
Genres:	Comedy
Languages:	English
Dubbed:	Czech, French, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish
Subtitles:	Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Norwegian, Portuguese, Swedish
Released:	September 02, 2002
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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.

Rating of 4 stars out of 5

See Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn as you've never seen them before, enlivening this special-effects laden, extremely dark comedy from Robert Zemeckis. Superbitch actress Streep and ex-heavyweight novelist Hawn are the present and former loves of plastic surgeon-turned-mortician Bruce Willis, whose talents can't compete with eccentric witch Isabella Rossellini's devilish gift of eternal youth. Zemeckis's under-rehearsed direction is at odds with a savagely delicious script and inspired casting: both leading ladies are superbly acerbic as they try to outwit and outbitch each other, while Willis is a pleasant surprise as the put-upon hubby in this quirky but enjoyable oddity.

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Rated 2 stars
A good film given a poor treatment

Andy from London, UK, Earth, 4th September, 2006

Whilst Death Becomes Her is a great comedy especially with Bruce Willis cast in a role the you would never really think him suited for the whole DVD experience sucked. Presented in 4:3 letterbox to remove almost all the quality in the first place (why do studios torture us with this?) it also treats us to what looks more like a copy from an old VHS tape just to finish the quality off. There are films much older and lower grade that have been given much better treatment in the conversion to DVD. Rent it to watch it but don't waste money buying it unless they redo it as a proper 16:9 release.

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