death suits you so well ( Death becomes her ) is an American fantastic comedy carried out in 1992 by Robert Zemeckis.

Synopsis

Madeline is an actress who starts to feel the effects of the age hard. Married to Ernest, an esthetic surgeon, it mistakes his rival Helen, a writer E ex-been engaged of Ernest. After a long stay in hospital for depression, Helen returns in full form and manages to regain the heart of Ernest and to convince it to eliminate Madeline. But the latter has just tasted, without the knowledge of her husband, a magic potion which makes young person and immortal…

Distribution

• Meryl Streep : Madeline Ashton
• Bruce Willis : Dr. Ernest Menville
• Goldie Hawn: Helen Sharp
• Isabella Rossellini : Lisle Von Rhoman
• Ian Ogilvy : Chagall
• Adam Storke: Dakota
• Nancy Fish: Rose (maidservant of Madeline)
• Alaina Reed Hall: psychological
• Michelle Johnson: Anna (assistant of Chagall)
• Mary Ellen Trainor: Vivian Adams
• William Frankfather: Mr. Franklin
• Susan Kellerman: Doctor

Data sheet

• French Title: death suits you so well
• original Titer: Death becomes her
• Realizer: Robert Zemeckis
• Scenario: Martin Donovan and David Koepp
• Production: Steve Starkey and Robert Zemeckis
• Music: Alan Silvestri
• Photography: Dean Cundey
• Assembly: Arthur Schmidt
• Make-up: Dick Smith
• Comings out date:
• the United States: July 31st 1992
• France: December 23rd 1992

Anecdotes

• Helen drinks the potion the October 26th 1985, the same date as the " time présent" in Return towards the future (1985), also realized by Robert Zemeckis.
• the plans in the psychiatric private clinic where Helen is found are directly inspired by those of the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975).
• a final scene where Tracey Ullman played the part of a Barmaid was cut to the final assembly, replaced by the scene of the burial of Ernest.

External bonds

• Card IMDB

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