When a novelist loses her man to a movie star and former friend, she winds up in a psychiatric hospital. Years later, she returns home to confront the now-married couple, looking radiant. Her ex-husband’s new wife wants to know her secret, and discovers that she has been taking a mysterious drug which grants eternal life to the person who drinks it. The actress follows suit, but discovers that immortality has a price…
Robert Zemeckis’ irresistibly camp horror-tinged comedy classic – which has recently been adapted into a hit Broadway musical – is the endlessly-quotable nineties answer to The Substance.