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Film: "Death Becomes Her" (1992).
Madeline Ashton (played by Meryl Streep) is an ageing actress obsessed with
beauty and looking young. Her college friend Helen Sharp (played by Goldie Hawn)
comes to visit her after one of her plays and brings her fiance Dr. Ernest Menville
(played by Bruce Willis), a renowned plastic surgeon, for Madeline to meet. Helen has
much hostility and jealousy towards Madeline because she is plain and mousy-looking while
Madeline is beautiful and sexy. Madeline has stolen Helen's boyfriends in the past
and Helen feels insecure about her fiance meeting her "friend" Madeline. The next scene
is that of a wedding: Ernest and Madeline getting married. Helen freaks out!
Fourteen years later, after Madeline has aged dramatically, her make-up advisor gives her
the name of someone who can bring back her youth if "money is no object". She goes to a sinister-looking
mansion and meets Lisle Von Rhumans (played by Isabella Rossellini), who, for a price,
gives Madeline a potion which gives her eternal youth and life.
This movie has fantastic special effects, and the make-up is remarkable. I
especially liked seeing Goldie Hawn in an asylum for the insane, weighing over
200 pounds. This movie is hilarious and kept me entertained. Meryl Streep
and Goldie Hawn are superb!
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