该电影由特伦斯·戴维斯执导，威尔弗里德·布兰贝尔、Terry O’Sullivan、Iain Munro、Jeanne Doree等主演，于1983年上映。在25分钟的叙事中，《死亡与变形》（又名：死亡与主显圣容节、死亡与变容）In sepia tones, the film moves back and forth among three periods in Robert Tucker’s life: he’s an old man, near death, in a nursing home at Christmas time; he’s in middle age caring for his cheerful but dying mother; he’s a lad at Catholic school, practicing his catechism, going to confession for the first time, receiving the Eucharist, surrounded by the singing of a children’s choir. In middle age, he looks through his scrapbook of photographs of muscular men; he recalls lovers and his mother’s cremation. A nurse sits beside him on his last night; in his last breath, he reaches forward and back..