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Death Becomes Her

1992

Robert Zemeckis

Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn, Bruce Willis, Isabella Rossellini ...

5.8

24,637

Comedy. Fantasy Helen, a writer, and Madeline, an actress, have hated each other for years. Madeline is married to Ernest, who was once Helen’s fiance. After she recovers from a mental breakdown, Helen vows revenge by stealing back Ernest and plotting to kill Madeline. Both rivals have secretly drunk a miracle cure for aging; they accidentally discover, when each tries to eliminate the other, that they have become immortal and that “life” will never be the same again. [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Jeff Menell The Hollywood Reporter	"Robert Zemeckis ascends to new heights and broadens out to new dimensions in this strangely fascinating, pitch-dark comedy."	POS
United States	Eric Henderson Slant	"'Death Becomes Her' is one of the few mainstream comedies that you don’t feel even had to try to be outlandish. It was simply born that way"	POS
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"Wildly uneven"	NEU
United States	Edward Guthmann SFGATE	"'Death Becomes Her' may be crude and tasteless, but it's also irresistibly funny and very well played"	POS
United States	Rita Kempley The Washington Post	"It's as irresistibly nasty as 'The War of the Roses' and as cheerily Gothic as 'The Witches of Eastwick'."	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"Far from sophisticated in its satire of narcissism, but enormous fun."	POS
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Tribune	"Insistently grotesque, relentlessly misanthropic and spectacularly tasteless, Death Becomes Her isn't a film designed to win the hearts of the mass moviegoing public. But it is diabolically inventive and very, very funny."	POS
United States	Chicago Sun-Times	"The new black comedy by Robert Zemeckis has more than its share of witty lines, sight gags and special effects. But even while you're appreciating its better moments, the cast is numbing them with their Arctic charm."	NEU
United Kingdom	William Thomas Empire	"It's the pitch-black comedy and celebrity satire that make this so enjoyable (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"'Death Becomes Her' is a black comedy that is so pleased with its blackness it frequently forgets to be funny."	NEG

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