The movie 'Death Becomes Her' was released in theaters in the United States, directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn, and Bruce Willis.
Ernest Menville, a struggling writer, meets Madeline Ashton at a literary event and they begin a relationship.
Ernest and Madeline get married, beginning their brief and unstable marriage.
Ernest meets Helen Sharp, a medical student and obsessive admirer who falls in love with him.
Ernest leaves Madeline to marry Helen, upsetting Madeline deeply and setting off the rivalry.
Madeline learns about a mysterious potion that grants eternal youth and perfect health and decides to take it.
Madeline drinks the potion, which grants her eternal youth and makes her unable to die or age.
Madeline's obsession with eternal youth and beauty intensifies, causing her to disregard consequences and others.
Helen, upset by Ernest's obsession with Madeline, confronts her at a party leading to a violent altercation where Madeline falls down stairs but does not die due to potion.
Helen also drinks the potion, gaining eternal youth and becoming immortal like Madeline.
Ernest attempts to kill himself but survives with injuries due to immortality effects caused indirectly by Madeline's potion.
Madeline and Helen continue their bitter rivalry, employing sabotage, manipulation, and cruelty against each other.
Despite immortality effects, Ernest’s body continues to physically fall apart due to lack of potion and aging, becoming skeletal.
Madeline, Helen, and Ernest face off in a climactic battle involving physical injuries that their immortality does not prevent.
Following the final fight, Madeline, Helen, and Ernest remain immortal but physically broken, condemned to an eternal, agonizing existence together.
