when a glamorous awful actress by the name of medeline ashton ( oscar winner representmeryl streep ) always stole boyfriend from her friend representhelen sharp ( oscar winner representgoldie hawn ) . when helen lose her fiancé ernest manville ( bruce willis ) to medeline and which ernest be a brilliant plastic surgeon . then helen go to a depression and subsequently double her weight . year later . when medeline become a out of work actress and her husband ernest be now touch up and put make up on dead people . madeline and ernest and who haven not see helen in year and complete surprise and she change in her look and seemingly do not age at all . when medeline be tire about her look and because she get old . then she meet a mysterious very attractive enchantress ( isabella rossellini ) and who change the life of helen and medeline . their death forever by turn greed and vanity and sex and immortality and life into one unusual difficult crazy buoyancy . direct by robert zemeckis ( back to the future trilogy and cast away and contact ) make a unique and unusual and different kind of black comedy mixed with fantasy . there great comic performance by the three lead . rossellini be also good in her small but important role . this film have stun visual effect do by industrial and light and magic ( ilm ) and which they win an oscar . great music score by alan silvestri ( cat eye and forrest gump and what lie beneath ) and lush cinematography by dean cundey ( the fog and jurassic park and who frame roger rabbit ) highlight this one . film director representsydney pollack ( out of arfica ) have an funny unbilled cameo a a beverly hill doctor . write by martin donovan ( apartment zero ) and david koepp ( panic room and the shadow and spiderman ) . ( or ) .