Meryl Streep Collection ( Death Becomes Her / Adaptation / The River Wild )

Meryl Streep Collection (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Death Becomes Her / Adaptation / The River Wild
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Berlin International Film Festival
Golden Globes
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 4 )

Running Time:
321 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
3-DVD Set
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1992-2002 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Robert Zemeckis
Spike Jonze
Curtis Hanson

Written By:
Martin Donovan
David Koepp
Susan Orlean
Charlie Kaufman
Denis O'Neill

Actors:
Meryl Streep ..... Madeline Ashton Menville
Bruce Willis ..... Dr. Ernest Menville
Goldie Hawn ..... Helen Sharp
Isabella Rossellini ..... Lisle Von Rhuman
Ian Ogilvy ..... Chagall
Adam Storke ..... Dakota
Nancy Fish ..... Rose
Alaina Reed-Hall ..... Psychologist
Michelle Johnson ..... Anna
Mary Ellen Trainor ..... Vivian Adams
William Frankfather ..... Mr. Franklin
John Ingle ..... Eulogist
Clement von Franckenstein ..... Opening Man
Petrea Burchard ..... Opening Woman
Jim Jansen ..... Second Man
Mimi Kennedy ..... Second Woman
Paulo Tocha ..... Landlord
Mark Davenport ..... Eviction Cop
Thomas Murphy ..... Eviction Cop
Michael Mills ..... Police Officer
Sonia Jackson ..... Psychiatric Patient
Jill C. Klein ..... Psychiatric Patient
Jean St. James ..... Psychiatric Patient
Debra Jo Rupp ..... Psychiatric Patient
Carol Ann Susi ..... Psychiatric Patient
Kay Yamamoto ..... Psychiatric Patient
Jacquelyn K. Koch ..... Messenger Girl
Anya Longwell ..... Chagall Receptionist
Stuart Mabray ..... Chagall Security
Colleen Morris ..... Starlet
Nicolas Cage ..... Charlie Kaufman / Donald Kaufman
Tilda Swinton ..... Valerie Thomas
Meryl Streep ..... Susan Orlean
Chris Cooper ..... John Laroche
Jay Tavare ..... Matthew Osceola
Litefoot ..... Russell
Roger Willie ..... Randy
Jim Beaver ..... Ranger Tony
Cara Seymour ..... Amelia Kavan
Doug Jones ..... Augustus Margary
Stephen Tobolowsky ..... Ranger Steve Neely (scenesDeleted)
Gary Farmer ..... Buster Baxley
Peter Jason ..... Defense Attorney
Gregory Itzin ..... Prosecutor
Curtis Hanson ..... Orlean's Husband
Agnes NaDene Baddoo ..... Orlean Dinner Guest
Paul Fortune ..... Orlean Dinner Guest
Paul Jasmin ..... Orlean Dinner Guest
Lisa Love ..... Orlean Dinner Guest
Wendy Mogel ..... Orlean Dinner Guest
David O. Russell ..... Orlean Dinner Guest
Judy Greer ..... Alice the Waitress
Maggie Gyllenhaal ..... Caroline Cunningham
Bob Stephenson ..... David
Bob Yerkes ..... Charles Darwin
Lynn Court ..... Laroche's Dad
Roger E. Fanter ..... Laroche's Uncle Jim
Sandra Lee Gimpel ..... Laroche's Mom
Caron Colvett ..... Laroche's Wife
Larry Krask ..... EMT
Meryl Streep ..... Gail Hartman
Joseph Mazzello ..... Roarke Hartman
Stephanie Sawyer ..... Willa
David Strathairn ..... Tom
Elizabeth Hoffman ..... Gail's Mother
Victor Galloway ..... Gail's Father
Diane Delano ..... Ranger
Thomas F. Duffy ..... Ranger
Kevin Bacon ..... Wade
John C. Reilly ..... Terry
William Lucking ..... Frank
Benjamin Bratt ..... Ranger Johnny
Paul Cantelon ..... Violinist
Glenn Morshower ..... Policeman

Synopsis:

Death Becomes Her: In 1978, on Broadway, the decadent and narcissist actress Madeline Ashton is performing Songbird, based on Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth. Then she receives her rival Helen Sharp, who is an aspiring writer, and her fiancee Ernest Menville, who is a plastic surgeon, in her dressing-room. Soon Menville calls off his commitment with Helen and marries Madeline. Seven years later, Helen is obese in a psychiatric hospital and obsessed in seeking revenge on Madeline. In 1992, the marriage of Madeline and Menville is finished and he is no longer a surgeon but an alcoholic caretaker. Out of the blue, they are invited to a party where Helen will release her novel Forever Young and Madeline goes to a beauty shop. The owner gives a business card of the specialist in rejuvenation Lisle Von Rhuman to her. When the envious Madeline sees Helen thin in a perfect shape, she decides to seek out Lisle and buys a potion to become young again. Further, she advises that Madeline must take care of her body. Meanwhile Helen seduces Menville and they plot a scheme to kill Madeline. When Madeline comes home, she has an argument Menville and he pushes her from the staircase. She breaks her neck but becomes a living dead. When Helen arrives at Menville's house expecting that Madeline is dead, she is murdered by Madeline. But she also becomes a living dead and they conclude they need Menville to help them to maintain their bodies. But Menville wants to leave them. Adaptation: While his latest movie Being John Malkovich (1999) is in production, screenwriter Charlie Kaufman is hired by Valerie Thomas to adapt Susan Orlean's non-fiction book 'The Orchid Thief' for the screen. Thomas bought the movie rights before Orlean wrote the book, when it was only an article in The New Yorker. The book details the story of rare orchid hunter John Laroche, whose passion for orchids and horticulture made Orlean discover passion and beauty for the first time in her life. Charlie wants to be faithful to the book in his adaptation, but despite Laroche himself being an interesting character in his own right, Charlie is having difficulty finding enough material in Laroche to fill a movie, while equally not having enough to say cinematically about the beauty of orchids. At the same time, Charlie is going through other issues in his life. His insecurity as a person doesn't allow him to act upon his feelings for Amelia Kavan, who is interested in him as a man. And Charlie's twin brother, pretentious Donald, has moved into his house with a goal of also becoming a screenwriter. Despite not admiring Donald as a screenwriter, Charlie asks for his advice. Together, they feel that there is some interesting subtext in the book on which Orlean herself can only elaborate, if only Charlie has the nerve to talk to her. If she can't or won't elaborate, they may have to find out the meaning of that subtext on their own. The River Wild: Gail Hartman is facing problems with with her husband, the workaholic architect Tom. On their son Roarke's birthday, Gail decides to leave their, Willa, daughter with her parents and take her family to raft down a wild river where she was a guide. On the departure, a young man named Wade befriends Roarke and leaves the place with his friends, Terry and Frank. Later the Hartmans encounters Wade and Terry, who do not have rafting experience, and Gail helps them to cross a whitewater. They get closer to the Hartmans, who soon learn a dark secret about them. What will they do to get rid of them?

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 22 July, 2022.