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Imagine you could become immortal. You would never worry about aging or death - you would stay young and beautiful forever, and you would be in [[Beethoven Was an Alien Spy|good company]]. The only catch is that after ten years, you would have to "disappear" in order to uphold [[The Masquerade]]. Now imagine that your biggest romantic rival has already taken this step.
Oh, [[Now You Tell Me|and a warning]]: you will need to take very good care of your body, because you will be using it for [[Who Wants to Live Forever?|a very long time...]]
''[[Death Becomes Her]]'' is a 1992 dark comedy directed by [[Robert Zemeckis]] and starring Goldie Hawn, [[Meryl Streep]], and [[Bruce Willis (Creator)]]. It won an [[Academy Award]] for Best Visual Effects.
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* [[Amusing Injuries]]: The most disturbing catalog there is this side of a [[Tex Avery]] cartoon.
* [[And Then What?]]: Ernest wonders this when [[Who Wants to Live Forever?|offered immortality.]]
* [[Answers to The Name of God]]: "My god!" "Thank you."
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]:
{{quote| '''Helen Sharp, regarding Madeline Ashton:''' She was a homebreaker. She was a man-eater. And she was a ''[[Bad Bad Acting|bad actress]]''.}}
** This is doubly hilarious when you watch the film and find out that ''[[Meryl Streep]]''--the world's finest actress, by general agreement--[[Irony As She Is Cast|plays Madeline Ashton]].
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* [[Nuns Are Spooky]]: Ernest meets three of them coming out of the morgue. They glide.
* [[Older Than They Look]]: Duh. [[Lampshaded]] by Lisle, who has Madeline guess her age (71). Madeline first guesses 38, which earns her a [[Death Glare]] from Lisle, and quickly re-guesses 28 and 23.
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** And Catherine Bell as her body double.
* [[Playing Against Type]]: Bruce Willis playing a cowardly henpecked husband. Bonus points for the character being literally impotent.
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* [[Waking Up At the Morgue]]: Justified here, because nobody could survive a tumble down a flight of marble stairs and a twisted around head... and technically, she didn't.
* [[White Dwarf Starlet]]: Madeline Ashton.
* [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]]: A surprisingly philosophical discussion of this trope.
** [[Comically Missing the Point]]: Of course, when the priest eulogizes Ernest that he'd found the secret to immortality through his children and his work, Helen and Madeline both mock, "[[Blah Blah Blah]]."
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