Storyline Edit. Then she receives her rival Helen Sharp, who is an aspiring writer, and her fiancee 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 , 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. Further, she advises that Madeline must take care of her body. Meanwhile Helen seduces Menville and they plot a scheme to kill Madeline.
When Madeline comes home, she has an argument Menville and he pushes her from the staircase. She breaks her neck but becomes a living dead. When Helen arrives at Menville's house expecting that Madeline is dead, she is murdered by Madeline. But she also becomes a living dead and they conclude they need Menville to help them to maintain their bodies. But Menville wants to leave them. Some people will go to any lengths to stay young forever.
Rated PG for some nudity and off-color humor. Did you know Edit. Trivia Meryl Streep accidentally scarred Goldie Hawn 's cheek with a shovel during the fight scene. Goofs Helen has had a hole blown through her stomach by the time the "shovel fight" has begun.
As Ernest leaves the scene, you see the shadows of the women fighting, only now the hole is in Madeleine's shadow, not Helen's. Crushed, she ends up on the doorstep of Lisle Von Rhuman played by the enchanting Isabella Rossellini , a wealthy socialite dealing in the dark arts.
This witchy, absurdist feature film was woefully ahead of its time, predicting the rise of scripted reality television with its no-details-spared scenes and plot twists. It went on, however, to capture the imagination of a younger generation of drag queens and cult-obsessed cosplayers, as well as develop a growing queer fandom. But this deliciously deranged dark comedy eventually found redemption in the embrace of the queer community, who have insured its legacy.
There was nowhere to go but up. The pair imagined their project as a modest indie movie, perfect for big names of yesteryear like Ann Margaret, Tuesday Weld, and Dean Stockwell. But while its visual effects won praise and an Academy Award in , the film was savaged by critics. Many people got it, and loved it for its weirdness. Many did not.
But in the 25 years since its initial release, the film has become a touchstone of the queer community. The film is screened during Pride month, where bar rooms and theaters full of fans mouth along with every line.
View Iframe URL. But when asked why Death Becomes Her appeals so to the queer community, both are at a loss. Me: " Ah, another day of human living and adult responsibility!
What joy to exist, briefly, in modern times. The catch in Death Becomes Her is that the emphasis on the phrase "eternal youth" isn't on youth, but on eternal.
Madeline becomes immortal, whether she wants to or not. And it turns out immortality is not all it's cracked up to be. Immortality, actually, is pretty annoying. One of the joys of rewatching Death Becomes Her at a time when an answer—any answer—about the future would be a relief is how cavalier the film is about little matters like life, death, and the fragility of the human body.
Yes, I am having my daily existential crisis, but Madeline Ashton's mannequin paint is peeling on her clavicle and Helen Sharp Goldie Hawn has a giant hole in her abdomen. We're all dealing with something right now, okay?
It's one of many movies that explore extending our leases on life and the perils therein. And it's always perils, isn't it? It's never "make a deal with a barely-dressed sorceress, cheat death, live happily ever after. Thankfully Death Becomes Her , for the most part, skips over any applicable lessons, choosing instead to luxuriate on a concern that's even more deeply human: the intense satisfaction of nursing a petty grievance.
This is what I'm looking forward to in these uncertain times.
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