BEDAZZLED

Stanley Moon, a short-order cook in a Wimpy restaurant in London, is infatuated with waitress Margaret Spencer, but is too shy to approach her. Distraught, he attempts suicide by hanging but is interrupted by George Spiggot, a man claiming to be the Devil. In return for his soul, George offers Stanley seven wishes. When Stanley accuses George of being delusional, he offers Stanley a "trial wish". Stanley wishes for a raspberry ice lolly, and George takes him to buy one from a nearby shop. Finding it melted, Stanley confirms that George is the Devil.

George's heightened sense of pride caused God to expel him from Heaven, and they are now in a game: If George is first to claim 100 billion souls, he will be readmitted to Heaven. His staff of seven deadly sins, especially Lust and Envy, are helping him with minor acts of vandalism and spite to reach this goal. Agreeing to the deal, Stanley uses his wishes to try to satisfy his love for Margaret, but George twists his words to frustrate him. Whenever he blows a raspberry, Stanley undoes the effects of a wish.

Stanley first wishes to be more articulate. George turns him into a talkative intellectual. Margaret becomes equally pretentious and agrees with all of Stanley's beliefs. When Stanley makes his move, however, she is horrified and starts screaming "Rape!".

Stanley wishes to be a multi-millionaire with Margaret as his "very physical" wife. She ignores him and his lavish gifts, including the original Mona Lisa, instead being physically affectionate with other men.

Stanley wishes to be a pop singer. His song "Love Me" is a huge hit before instantly being outdone by the narcissistic, emotionally unavailable Drimble Wedge and the Vegetation, whose monotone "Bedazzled" hypnotizes Margaret and the other groupies into abandoning Stanley.

Stanley comments in passing that he wishes he were "a fly on the wall" and George turns them both into literal flies on the wall in a morgue, where a police inspector shows Margaret various dead bodies, hoping that she will identify one as Stanley. When the inspector invites Margaret to a vice squad party, Stanley launches an attack on him, only to be felled with bug spray.

Stanley wishes he and Margaret lived a quiet life in the countryside with children. However, Margaret becomes another man's wife. While deeply in love, Stanley and Margaret's attempt to consummate their affection drives both into emotional agony.

Determined to frame a wish that George cannot ruin for him, Stanley wishes that he and Margaret loved one another, lived away from the city with no other men around, and would always be together. George turns him into a nun of the Order of Saint Beryl, or the Leaping Beryllians, who glorify their founder by jumping on trampolines. Margaret is also a nun there, but refuses to consider consummating their love, as they are both women. Stanley attempts to escape the wish by blowing a raspberry, to no effect, and returns to London to confront George.

When Stanley tries to use his seventh wish, George reveals he has already used it — his trial wish for an ice lolly.

Ultimately, George spares Stanley eternal damnation, because he exceeded his quota of 100 billion souls and can afford to be generous. George ascends to Heaven, where God's disembodied voice rejects him again; when he gave Stanley back his soul, George did the right thing with the wrong motive. Thinking he can nullify this by reclaiming Stanley's soul, George tries to stop Stanley from burning his contract, but arrives too late.

Back at the restaurant, Stanley, now back to normal, asks Margaret to dinner; despite saying she is busy, she suggests meeting another night, and Stanley smiles. George tries to entice Stanley again, but Stanley says he would rather start a relationship with Margaret his own way. Frustrated, George leaves and threatens revenge on God by unleashing all the tawdry and shallow technological curses of the modern age while God laughs triumphantly.

Stanley’s wishes continually backfire until he ultimately confronts George Spiggot, and the soul-selling contract is burned, freeing Stanley from his bargain with the Devil.

The ending plays as a comic reversal of the Faustian legend: despite his repeated failures and frustrations, Stanley regains his autonomy not through cleverness, but by the Devil’s own mischief and a loophole in their contract. It underscores the film’s satirical take on the futility of shortcuts and the perils of wish fulfillment, closing the loop on Stanley’s pursuit of love and self-worth.