Death Becomes Her
Movie • 1992 • Comedy
ReportMadeline is married to Ernest, who was once arch-rival Helen's fiance. After recovering from a mental breakdown, Helen vows to kill Madeline and steal back Ernest. Unfortunately for everyone, the introduction of a magic potion causes things to be a great deal more complicated than a mere murder plot.
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Does a woman get slapped?
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Helen obsesses over Madeline for years and plans her life around getting revenge on her. There's also a scene where she creeps around Madeline's house and spies on her with binoculars.
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Strangulation between husband and wife.
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A woman steals all her "best friend's" boyfriends. Later, said friend tries to kill her.
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Lying is not the same as gaslighting someone
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Addiction
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There is a magic potion but no real drugs in the film.
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Is there addiction?
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Ernest is an alcoholic.
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Ernest is an implied-alcoholic (he drinks a Bloody Mary for breakfast in one scene and almost drinks whiskey(?) near the end but changes his mind) and there is a sequence of a murder plan to make Madeline look like she died while DUI, but there aren't any actual binge-drinking scenes.
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Is someone drugged?
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in a scene where a character shares their murder plot, a character is poisoned. however, this plan does not come to fruition.
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Is someone restrained?
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đźź mild đźź a woman is dragged out against her will out of her apartment by police
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Bodily Harm
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In two scenes people's fingers are cut by a dagger, shown in close-up.
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Is there throat mutilation?
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a throat bends/snaps entirely flat but there's no blood
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Is there decapitation?
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Yes - it's intended to be funny
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Is someone choked?
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briefly, but not to death
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Is someone burned alive?
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There's an image of a car falling off a steep ridge and exploding, killing its driver. We then see the hand of the badly burned body as it's examined by autopsy technicians. This all takes place in an imaginary sequence and nobody really burns alive.
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Is someone buried alive?
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Someone does get zipped up in a body bag and shut into a drawer in the morgue, and you hear them struggling and shouting for help, but they don't get buried.
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Is there amputation?
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[SPOILERS] In the very last scene, the two main characters fall down the stairs and shatter into several pieces, so you see disembodied limbs strewn about.
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Is there a hanging?
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Bruce Willis is caught by his suspenders while falling off a roof. Imagery is upsetting to some.
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Does someone break a bone?
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Madeline breaks many bones in a fall, leaving her body horribly twisted, but she survives due to magic. Later some of these bones are broken again (her neck in particular) but again she survives. While not very realistic (90s special effects), the imagery is likely to be disturbing for someone with triggers relating to broken bones.
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Mention of a finger falling off. And two people have their fingers pricked but only a drop of blood is shown.
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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Multiple graphic scenes of people falling down stairs.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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There's a prolonged fall down a staircase that should kill the character, but they survive (in a way) because of magic. Another character falls from a great height, thinking they will die, but they land in water and survive.
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Is there excessive gore?
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A character's neck is dislocated, a character is shot point blank with a shotgun creating a hole all the way through her body, mention of bones protruding through skin, skin peeling, fingers falling off, etc. Relatively little actual blood or guts shown onscreen.
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Death
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Does a major character die?
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in a natural end of life way - only a memorial service is shown
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Family
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Does a parent die?
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(spoiler) In the end we are shown 37 years in the future and Ernest is now dead presumably due to old age and he has many children.
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Does someone cheat?
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There aren't explicit cheating scenes, but Madeline had an affair with a younger man.
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I wouldn’t say the nuns were ghosts. I believe it was just an illusion because their skirts were so long you couldn’t see their steps so it appeared they were floating.
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Bone crunching sounds.
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Are needles/syringes used?
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finger is pricked with a dagger. no needles or syringes
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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Includes a verbally abusive therapist - uses extremely degrading language against the patient for a very brief 10-20sec early in the film. Does not appear again for the rest of the film.
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a woman squeezes a tissue until her hand bleeds
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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đźź Mild đźź A group of women in a paych ward become agitated during a group session. Brief < 5 second scene.
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when in a precarious situation someone has a choice between falling and staying in a bad situation, they decide against staying in the bad situation. It's an attempt, but there is a good outcome.
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Is there misophonia?
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Nails scratching a wall. I'm not sure why people are voting "no".
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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age related
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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There's a scene where a character has been put in a body bag and placed in a drawer at the morgue. We only see it from the outside but we do hear them struggling and calling for help.
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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The main character has an obesity problem for a couple of scenes.
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Does someone die by suicide?
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Are there underwater scenes?
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Yes there are pool scenes but no drowning
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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Paranoia
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there are a few scenes that a character is stalking others with a pair of binoculars.
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Pregnancy
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Are there fat jokes?
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The beginning of the movie is pretty fatphobic. A woman gains a lot of weight after binge eating due to her depression and the actress is placed in a fat suit. The scenes where she is in the fat suit are framed in a very unflattering way and characters go on to fat shame her multiple times. Her own therapist even mentions how she “hasn’t lost a single pound!” Even after she loses the weight they’re are several remarks about her being fat in the past.
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
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a character is overweight for the first 20 minutes of the film and he weight is secondary to her grief and possibly binge eating disorder
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Is there hate speech?
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ValkyrieCain
Before and during the mental institution scene they fat shame the main character.
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Race
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
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fraisierdesbois
Also Meryl's character is cheating her husband with a much younger man
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Religious
Is religion discussed?
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There’s a funeral in a church
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Sex
Are there nude scenes?
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one female character is briefly seen topless once and nearly topless several other times. no full nudity
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is there sexual content?
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We see some butts and hear some sexual language but no sex scenes.
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Sickness
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Social
Are there fat suits?
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a character is seen wearing a fat suit. no fat suits are used after 15 minutes into the movie.
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Vehicular
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Does a car crash?
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There is a thought sequence of a planned murder where a car will be made to look like it drove off a cliff.
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Is someone hit by a car?
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There's a scene where it looks like a character is almost going to be hit by a car but it stops at the last second.
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Does someone drown?
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Spoiler alert: There is a scene where Goldie Hawn is shot in the stomach and lands in water & dies, but comes back to life.
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Is there blood/gore?
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Yes. A lot. A woman gets a hole cut through her, another woman's head gets snapped back.
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Is there gun violence?
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Madeline shoots Helen in the gut with a shotgun.
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