Metrograph

Fourteen years ago aspiring writer Helen Sharp (Goldie Hawn) found herself chucked aside by her plastic surgeon fiancé (Bruce Willis) after his wandering eye landed on her narcissistic actress frenemy Madeline Ashton (Meryl Streep), but today Helen appears to have gotten the last laugh, not having aged a day when she finally reappears in their lives, thanks to a magic potion (courtesy Isabella Rossellini) that offers immortality—something that comes in handy when this acrid love triangle turns into all-out war. A riotous, vicious black comedy featuring innovative early employment of CGI, since adapted to a hit Broadway musical. “Instantly grotesque, relentlessly misanthropic and spectacularly tasteless. Death Becomes Her isn’t a film designed to win the hearts of the mass moviegoing public. But it is diabolically inventive and very, very funny.” —Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader