Realizing they will need regular maintenance, they scheme to have Ernest drink the potion to ensure his permanent availability. Fed up with the pair, Ernest prepares to leave, but Helen and Madeline convince him to repair their bodies one last time. The two briefly fight before apologizing and reconciling their friendship. The blast leaves Helen with a hole in her torso but otherwise unharmed, revealing that she has also taken Lisle's potion. Overhearing Helen and Ernest discussing their plot to kill her, Madeline shoots Helen with a shotgun. Helen demands information about Madeline's situation. After rescuing Madeline, Ernest considers her reanimation a miracle and uses his skills as a mortician to repair her body at home. She is taken to the morgue due to her body having no pulse and a temperature below 80 ☏ (27 ☌). Madeline is told she is technically dead, and faints. At Madeline's request, Ernest drives her to the emergency room. Believing Madeline dead, Ernest phones Helen for advice, initially not seeing Madeline stand and approach him with her head twisted backward. When Madeline returns home, she and Ernest argue, during which she falls down the stairs, breaking her neck. Helen seduces Ernest and convinces him to kill Madeline. As a condition of purchase, Lisle warns Madeline to disappear from the public eye after ten years to conceal the potion's existence, and to treat her body well. Madeline purchases and drinks the potion and is rejuvenated, regaining her beauty. Lisle, claiming to be 71, but looking decades younger, reveals a potion that promises eternal life and an everlasting youthful appearance. Dejected, Madeline drives to Lisle's home. After the soiree, Madeline visits her young lover, but discovers he is with a woman his age. Dumbfounded and depressed by Helen's appearance, Madeline witnesses Helen tell Ernest that she blames Madeline for his career decline. Madeline and Ernest attend the party for Helen's novel, Forever Young, and discover that Helen is slim, glamorous and youthful. Understanding Madeline's desperation, the spa owner gives her the business card of Lisle Von Rhuman, a mysterious, wealthy socialite who specializes in rejuvenation. Receiving an invitation to a party celebrating Helen's new book, Madeline rushes to a spa where she regularly receives facial treatments. Another seven years later, Madeline and Ernest live in Beverly Hills, but they are miserable: Madeline's acting career has declined and Ernest, now an alcoholic, has been reduced to working as a reconstructive mortician. Seven years later, Helen is obese, depressed and committed to a psychiatric hospital where she plots revenge on Madeline. Smitten with Madeline, Ernest breaks off his engagement with Helen to marry Madeline instead. She invites long-time frenemy Helen Sharp, an aspiring writer, backstage along with Helen's fiancé, plastic surgeon Ernest Menville. In 1978, narcissistic actress Madeline Ashton performs in the poorly received Broadway musical Songbird!.
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