1992 · fantasy · comedy · dark-comedy
Death Becomes Her
Directed by Robert Zemeckis1h 44m1992
Madeline is married to Ernest, who was once her arch-rival Helen's fiancé. After recovering from a mental breakdown, Helen vows to kill Madeline and steal back Ernest. Unfortunately for everyone, the introduction of a magic potion causes things to be a great deal more complicated than a mere murder plot.
Our read: Death Becomes Her (1992) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive fantasy · comedy · dark-comedy entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured fantasy / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
- warm
- brisk
- inventive
- funny
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