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Death Becomes Her (1992)
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If Robert Zemeckis's mega-hit Forrest Gump was 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...
| Release Date: | July 31st, 1992 |
| MPAA Rating: | PG-13 |
| Running Time: | 103 minutes |
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$58,422,650 (US)
$149,022,650 (World) |
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| Death Becomes Her Movie Review by Steven (1/9/2009) |
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"Death Becomes Her" is so silly and far-fetched that I love it anyway. Directed by Robert Zemeckis", this guilty pleasure stars Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn as two vain women who fight over Bruce Willis and eventually for the eternal youth and beauty which was created by a sexy sorceress (or whatever) played by Isabella...
(complete Death Becomes Her review by Steven)
A really f*cked up idea for a movie. What if women were so obsessed with their looks that they chose eternal life over aging? Goldie Hawn and Meryl Streep answer with their send-up of beauty in the age of the twenty-something.
Though the film sometimes gets unnecessarily gruesome, overall it is a wicked funny and dark...
(complete Death Becomes Her review by Jessica Film Junkie)
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