Death Becomes Her Page #9

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
Director(s): Robert Zemeckis
  Won 1 Oscar. Another 4 wins & 16 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.5
Metacritic:
56
PG-13
Year:
1992
104 min
5,265 Views


786

01:
06:34,960 -- 01:06:38,157

What if the police should receive

an anonymous phone call about you...

787

01:
06:38,240 -- 01:06:42,836

and find me on the floor

not breathing, no pulse?

788

01:
06:42,920 -- 01:06:46,117

Ain't nobody can play dead

like me, Ernest.

789

01:
06:46,160 -- 01:06:50,870

What will you tell them? You're going

to be very popular in prison.

790

01:
06:50,960 -- 01:06:53,713

- Prison?

- Prison.

791

01:
06:53,800 -- 01:06:57,839

Do you know what they do to soft,

bald, overweight Republicans...

792

01:
06:57,880 -- 01:07:01,190

in prison, Ernest?

793

01:
07:01,240 -- 01:07:03,276

I'll get the shovels, dear.

794

01:
07:07,760 -- 01:07:10,479

And she even paid

for the hardware.

795

01:
07:10,520 -- 01:07:14,399

Don't you just love it?

796

01:
07:14,480 -- 01:07:17,472

Oh!

797

01:
07:18,760 -- 01:07:21,194

- Are you just gonna sit there?

- What?

798

01:
07:21,280 -- 01:07:24,113

- I won't be your accomplice by myself.

- I'll help.

799

01:
07:24,200 -- 01:07:26,475

- I'm happy to help.

- Help me stretch this out. Get the end.

800

01:
07:26,560 -- 01:07:30,269

- I'm very happy to help.

- Put the body right here.

801

01:
07:30,320 -- 01:07:32,959

Today really shaped up

in a hurry, didn't it?

802

01:
07:33,040 -- 01:07:36,237

Did you ever notice how some days

can start out so shitty...

803

01:
07:39,120 -- 01:07:42,157

and then suddenly something wonderful

happens and your whole outlook...

804

01:
07:42,200 -- 01:07:46,557

just suddenly... changes.

805

01:
07:46,640 -- 01:07:50,792

That... was totally uncalled-for.

806

01:
08:04,560 -- 01:08:09,509

Look at me, Ernest, just look at me.

I'm soaking wet.

807

01:
08:09,560 -- 01:08:13,997

And there seems to be something wrong

with your, uh, blouse.

808

01:
08:15,560 -- 01:08:19,519

I have a hole in my stomach!

809

01:
08:19,600 -- 01:08:22,239

Oh!

810

01:
08:22,320 -- 01:08:25,232

I have a hole

in my stomach!

811

01:
08:25,320 -- 01:08:29,313

Yeah, and you're still alive.

812

01:
08:29,360 -- 01:08:33,035

- It's another miracle!

- No, it isn't.

813

01:
08:39,520 -- 01:08:42,751

Ha! Ah-ha!

You took the potion!

814

01:
08:42,800 -- 01:08:44,916

- How do you know about that?

- Oh!

815

01:
08:45,000 -- 01:08:48,515

- You took the potion too.

- Well, I hardly needed it.

816

01:
08:48,560 -- 01:08:52,269

So that's why you look

the way you do and you are dead.

817

01:
08:52,360 -- 01:08:55,875

- When did you take it?

- October 26, 1985. Way before you!

818

01:
08:55,920 -- 01:08:58,195

- What are you talking about?

- The potion!

819

01:
08:58,280 -- 01:09:00,157

- How much did you pay?

- Everything I had.

820

01:
09:00,240 -- 01:09:02,196

- And that was cheap!

- You took a potion?

821

01:
09:02,280 -- 01:09:05,636

- Beauty book, my butt!

- Wait a second.

822

01:
09:05,720 -- 01:09:08,359

I don't think this is

a miracle at all!

823

01:
09:08,440 -- 01:09:12,069

You're a fraud, a walking lie

and I can see right through you!

824

01:
09:14,200 -- 01:09:17,192

Speaking of which,

as a friend, some advice.

825

01:
09:17,240 -- 01:09:20,835

I would stay out of

a bathing suit for a while.

826

01:
09:20,880 -- 01:09:23,155

At least, a two piece.

827

01:
09:23,240 -- 01:09:25,356

Or if l...

828

01:
09:34,440 -- 01:09:38,638

Damn. I just fixed this.

829

01:
09:46,800 -- 01:09:49,155

En garde.

830

01:
09:49,200 -- 01:09:50,952

- B*tch.

- Girls, girls!

831

01:
09:51,000 -- 01:09:55,755

Let's just calm down. I'm sure we can

settle this peacefully... Whoa!

832

01:
09:55,800 -- 01:09:58,997

You should learn not to compete with me.

I always win.

833

01:
09:59,080 -- 01:10:01,196

Yah! Yah!

834

01:
10:01,280 -- 01:10:04,113

You may have always won,

but you never played fair.

835

01:
10:04,200 -- 01:10:05,792

Oh!

836

01:
10:07,240 -- 01:10:09,993

Who cares how I played?

I won!

837

01:
10:10,040 -- 01:10:12,395

I'll just be upstairs.

838

01:
10:12,480 -- 01:10:16,712

That's 'cause you could raise

your legs higher than anyone.

839

01:
10:16,760 -- 01:10:21,197

But look at you now! You couldn't

raise an eyebrow without surgery!

840

01:
10:21,280 -- 01:10:23,589

I've raised a lot more

than an eyebrow in my day.

841

01:
10:23,680 -- 01:10:26,194

You skinny, phony,

hollow b*tch!

842

01:
10:26,280 -- 01:10:28,271

You've lost

your one and only talent.

843

01:
10:28,360 -- 01:10:31,716

Which was one more talent

than you had, you former fatso!

844

01:
10:36,880 -- 01:10:40,395

- Aaah!

- Yes! No! Oh, damn!

845

01:
10:40,440 -- 01:10:43,432

This is pointless!

Wait a minute, this is ridiculous!

846

01:
10:43,480 -- 01:10:45,675

We can't even hurt each other!

We can't even inflict pain!

847

01:
10:45,720 -- 01:10:47,870

Pain!

848

01:
10:47,920 -- 01:10:51,469

I'll tell ya about pain!

Bobby O'Brien!

849

01:
10:51,560 -- 01:10:54,996

Scott Hunter! Ernest Menville!

That's pain!

850

01:
10:55,080 -- 01:10:57,753

I loved every one of them

and they loved me.

851

01:
10:57,840 -- 01:11:00,877

I will not speak to you till

you put your head on straight.

852

01:
11:03,960 -- 01:11:06,394

They were all I had and

you took them away from me.

853

01:
11:06,480 -- 01:11:09,074

Not because you loved them,

not because you cared...

854

01:
11:09,160 -- 01:11:11,754

but just to hurt me on purpose.

855

01:
11:11,840 -- 01:11:13,751

- That is not true!

- Liar!

856

01:
11:13,840 -- 01:11:16,308

- You attacked me first!

- Me?

857

01:
11:16,400 -- 01:11:18,994

Do you think

I was blind, deaf?

858

01:
11:19,080 -- 01:11:23,915

I couldn't hear what you and your

snotty friends were saying about me?

859

01:
11:23,960 -- 01:11:28,192

- You thought I was cheap.

- Oh, please. You're insane.

860

01:
11:28,240 -- 01:11:31,596

Then how come you never invited me

to one of those parties at your parents?

861

01:
11:31,640 -- 01:11:34,757

Because we didn't think

you'd feel comfortable.

862

01:
11:34,800 -- 01:11:37,951

- It wasn't usual for... Stop that!

- I'm trying.

863

01:
11:38,000 -- 01:11:41,913

- It wasn't usual for us to have...

- Trash in the house!

864

01:
11:42,000 -- 01:11:45,117

You're avoiding the issue. You stole

my boyfriends to hurt me on purpose!

865

01:
11:45,200 -- 01:11:47,031

- I did not!

- Admit it!

866

01:
11:47,120 -- 01:11:50,635

No, you admit it.

You look me in the eye...

867

01:
11:50,680 -- 01:11:56,198

and you admit

you thought I was cheap.

868

01:
12:08,280 -- 01:12:13,513

Okay, I thought you were cheap.

869

01:
12:18,360 -- 01:12:19,952

Well,

870

01:
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I hurt you on purpose.

871

01:
12:24,560 -- 01:12:29,190

And I'm... really sorry.

872

01:
12:31,920 -- 01:12:34,275

I'm sorry too.

873

01:
12:37,560 -- 01:12:39,755

Ern, darling.

874

01:
12:39,800 -- 01:12:43,634

Helen and I want to apologize

for that little thing downstairs.

875

01:
12:43,720 -- 01:12:47,918

- We've got it out of our systems now.

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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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