Bruce Willis, Goldie Hawn and Meryl Streep starred in Robert Zemeckis' Death Becomes Her.
Anyone else share our love for it?
Robert Zemeckiss geek credentials are pretty well established.
The film begins in 1978, at a performance of a Broadway musical.
Madeline Ashton (Meryl Streep) is starring inSongbird, a musical adaptation of Tennessee WilliamsSweet Bird Of Youth.
What makes is that its a bad show.
That, basically, is our introduction to the dynamics of the three main characters.
The woman is Helen Sharp (Goldie Hawn), a school friend of Madelines.
And when they head backstage, it turns out he cant.
He was in his late 30s, and had the physique of, well, an action movie star.
What they want, really, is what the other one has.
Its their obsession with one another thats ultimately their undoing…
It helps that shes wearing a prosthetic, too, so its not all done on a computer.
Its just so fantastically creepy but playful, too.
We go with Madeline and Helen, laughing hysterically.
The cut ofDeath Becomes Herthat we know and love today, though, isnt the original one.
Was that cut for time, or because it was extra gross?
Theres not even much swearing, although the original script was more explicit.
(Id love to explain what the floating nuns mean, but Ive got no idea anyone?)
If youve not revisited this film recently, I wholeheartedly recommend it.
I think it might have been a bit harder to love that movie.
