Death Becomes Her

Love this movie. Funny stuff!

This is a very unusual but hilarious dig at the culture of beauty, all very well played. Meryl Streep plays an actress seeking to play young parts, but alas, she is getting older and her audiences are dwindling. As she goes to the beauty salon, she demands to know if there is anything that they can do beyond what they have already done. The stylist finally hands her a card and tells her that it is to something very exclusive and secret. She doesnt believe it of course and goes about her life which is rapidly spiraling downward. her husband is drinking heavily, her boyfriend is seeking lovers his own age, but the straw that decides her course is the book party she has been invited to, and she sees her old friend slash rival, once an overweight loser, now a svelte young stunner, with emphasis on young. Naturally, she seeks to know just what her secret is, and discovers the card she was given leads to a huge sprawling mansion and a mysterious young woman with an elixir that grants eternal youth to any who drink it. This however, leads to a huge problem. She finds life is indeed eternal and when an accident on a staircase fails to kill her, even though she is officially dead. When she tries to kill her rival, who is seeking to run off with her husband, she discovers that she too is also in the same condition, and that eventually leads her to join forces in order to keep themselves together. When they try to give the potion to Meryls husband, he refuses and finally makes his escape from them both when he learns why they wanted to keep him around. Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn are a tour de force together, but Bruce Willis has an unusual role as the weak willed plastic surgeon Dr. Menville, the milquetoast husband to Streep. This is a brilliant dark comedy.

I bought this for a friend to give to his wife at Christmas. She loved it, so thats good enough for me. Ive never seen it.

Dire

I think this movie is hilarious!

on time and o.k.

Great movie! Packaging and delivery were as promised.

I really like this movie, so do my ex girlfriends, this is the third time i have bought it because it always walks away. very fast ship

Although the theatrical aspect ratio of this movie was 1.85:1, while the DVD aspect ratio is 4:3, this is not a Pan&Scan DVD. In other words, almost none of the original theatrical image has been removed for exhibition on a 4:3 television screen. The film negative aspect ratio was 1.37:1 (almost 4:3), and for theatrical exhibition, the image was matted (partially covered from the top down and bottom up) to produce a 1.85:1 image. For exhibition on a 4:3 television screen, the mattes have simply been removed. So the DVD exhibition actually shows 27.9 percent more image than the theatrical exhibition. The movie was likely filmed this way so that the theatrical image wouldnt be butchered on television by the Pan&Scan process, and because the filmmakers didnt foresee the current state of the home video market, where consumers prefer movies presented in their theatrical aspect ratio, rather than in a ratio in which the image will fill up their 4:3 television screen (if there is a difference). This DVD presents the movie in the aspect ratio in which the filmmakers wanted people to see it on a 4:3 television, but it does not present the movie in the aspect ratio in which the filmmakers wanted people to see it in a movie theater (for that, the DVD would have to present the movie in a matted widescreen format). If youre okay with that, enjoy!

Love this movie wasnt scratched or broken