Death Becomes Her Page #4

Synopsis: In 1978, in Broadway, the decadent and narcissist actress Madeline Ashton is performing Songbird, based on Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth. Then she receives her rival Helen Sharp, who is an aspiring writer, and her fiancé 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 1992, 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
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Director(s): Robert Zemeckis
Actors: Meryl Streep, Bruce Willis, Goldie Hawn, Isabella Rossellini
  Won 1 Oscar. Another 4 wins & 16 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.5
Metacritic:
56
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PG-13
Year:
1992
104 min
5,150 Views

I didn't know

you were so unhappy.

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Never could lie to you.

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I know about the kind of...

work you're doing now.

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It's not work.

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I would sell my soul

to be able to operate again.

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- Oh, Helen, I've wasted my life.

- No, Ernest.

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She's wasted you.

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She married

a brilliant surgeon...

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and turned him

into an undertaker.

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I want you

to know something.

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I have never blamed you

for leaving me.

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I always knew it was her.

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She's a woman.

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A woman, Ernest.

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From Newark, for God's sakes.

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I will never forgive her

for what she's done to you.

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Never.

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Dakota!

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Oh!

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Oh!

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- What's wrong?

- Nothing.

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I didn't know

you were coming over.

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- Oh, my God, you're not alone.

- Of course I am.

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- I'm completely alone.

- Dakota?

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Actually, completely

isn't quite what I meant.

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- How dare you make me feel cheap!

- Madeline, I forgot.

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- She's here to... She's here to fix...

- Who is she?

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- I'm trying to tell you...

- Who is the little piece of meat?

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She's a friend of, of,

the guy who was here to...

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- Jesus, at least lie quickly!

- I am trying to.

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Look, you gotta believe me.

This is perfectly innocent.

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Hey, hey, hey.

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I'm sick of this sh*t,

you know that?

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- I am doing you a favor here.

- Doing me a favor?

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- I gave you...

- Yeah, you gave, I gave. Big deal!

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Somebody told me we look

ridiculous together.

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How do you think

that makes me feel?

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You never think

about my feelings.

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Go find someone

your own age, Madeline!

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Madeline! I need to speak

to Madeline at once!

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No.

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Madeline. I need to speak

to Madeline at once!

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Yeah.

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Geez.

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- Good evening. I hope it's not too...

- Not at all, Miss Ashton.

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Miss Von Rhuman's expecting you.

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She is?

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Wait here, please.

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Follow me, please.

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Excuse me.

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I hoped you'd come.

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Make some room for my friend,

for Christ's sake!

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But...

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keep your ass handy.

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May I say that

I've always thought yours...

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to be one of the most

beautiful faces...

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ever to grace

the silver screen.

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Oh.

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And that husband of yours,

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I can only say that

his reputation is unsurpassed.

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Oh.

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I just arrived in town.

I follow the spring.

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I haven't seen an autumn

or winter in years.

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We are creatures

of the spring, you and I.

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Uh-huh. I'm not really

quite sure why I came.

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You're scared as hell...

of yourself,

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of the body you thought

you once knew.

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I beg your pardon?

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I am the one

who understands.

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I am the one

who knows your secret.

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Who is it?

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Madeline.

I need to speak to Madeline.

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She's not here.

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Ah, thank God!

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How did you get in?

I didn't hear the gate.

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I didn't want you to hear.

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Ernest, ask me to go.

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Ask me to leave

this house immediately!

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- You just got here.

- I know, I know.

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But it just took me a glimpse

and I was back where I started.

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Where's that?

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- Don't pretend you're not aware of it.

- Of what?

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You're a powerful

sexual being, Ernest.

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I am?

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Yes, you are.

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If I never told you before,

it's because...

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I wasn't the sort of girl

that could say the word...

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"sexual" without blushing.

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Well, I can now.

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Sexual.

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Sensual.

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Sexy.

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Sex.

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Sex.

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Sex!

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So warm, so full of life.

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And already

it ebbs away from you.

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This is life's

ultimate cruelty.

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It offers us the taste

of youth and vitality...

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and then makes us

witness our own decay.

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Well, it is

the natural law.

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Screw the natural law!

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What is that?

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What you came for.

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A touch of magic...

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Martin Donovan

Martin Donovan (born August 19, 1957) is an American film, stage and television actor. He has had a long collaboration with director Hal Hartley and appeared in many of Hartley's films, such as Trust (1990), Surviving Desire (1991), Simple Men (1992), Flirt (1993), Amateur (1994), and The Book of Life (1998; in which he played Jesus). Donovan also played Peter Scottson on Showtime's cable series Weeds. He made his writing/directorial debut with the film Collaborator (2011). more…

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