SILVER

Five 2025 Oscar® nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actress (Demi Moore); Winner, Best Screenplay, 2024 Cannes Film Festival; Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy (Demi Moore), 2025 Golden Globes

Film star Elisabeth Sparkle (a fearless Demi Moore in a career-best performance) is firmly relegated to the damning status of "fading celebrity" when she is swiftly axed from her long-running exercise show following her 50th birthday — that is, until she receives a mysterious offer to take a drug known as "The Substance," which promises to create a “younger, more beautiful, more perfect” version of herself. Taking up the mononym "Sue" for her new body (played to perfection by Margaret Qualley), Elisabeth/Sue sets out to recapture the public's heart but ignores the key instruction to switch bodies every seven days lest disaster strikes. In her sophomore film, which bowed at 2024’s Cannes Film Festival, director Coralie Fargeat (REVENGE) eviscerates toxic beauty culture in grand guignol fashion, with some of the most gruesome prosthetic makeup and squelching sound design ever seen in the body horror genre. DIR/SCR/PROD Coralie Fargeat; PROD Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner. UK/U.S./France, 2024, color, 141 min. RATED R