death becomes her movie part 5/10

In 1978 on Broadway in New York City, aging actress Madeline Ashton (Meryl Streep) performs in "Songbird", an ill-conceived musical version of Sweet Bird of Youth. Aspiring writer Helen Sharp (Goldie Hawn), Madeline's longtime rival, is taking in the show with her fiancé, plastic surgeon Ernest Menville (Bruce Willis), who is the only person in the audience enjoying himself. Helen and Ernest are invited to Madeline's dressing room, where Madeline shows an interest in Ernest. One night while Ernest is prepping for surgery Madeline invites him to dinner. Ernest tells Helen about his dinner date with Madeline, but states that the dinner was just business. Despite Ernest's assurances to Helen that he has no interest in Madeline, the two are married within months.

Seven years later, Helen is an obese, depressed woman obsessed with Madeline, and is evicted from her apartment. After being arrested by the police, Helen is committed to a psychiatric hospital, where she drives the other patients and doctors crazy with her constant talk about Madeline. Helen pretends she is rehabilitated and is released, all the while plotting revenge on Madeline.

Seven more years later, Madeline's career is all but over. She is living in Beverly Hills with Ernest, now a miserable alcoholic reduced to working as a mortician. At a spa, Madeline is given the business card of a woman who specializes in beauty and youth rejuvenation, though she is dismissive. Madeline and Ernest attend the book signing party for "Forever Young", Helen's first novel, and Helen is thin, youthful, and radiantly beautiful.

Dumbfounded by Helen's appearance, Madeline goes to see her young

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[awkwardjosh]

"NOW A WARNING!" ahhaha love Meryl!