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Beetle Juice (1988)

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Release Date
Mar 30, 1988 (USA)
DVD Release Date
• R1: Aug 19, 2003

Budget $15,000,000

MPAA Rating
PG

Running Time
1 hour, 32 minutes

Country USA

Studio Warner Brothers

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Other Titles
• Beetle Juice (1988)
• Lottergeist Beetlejuice (1988)



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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Comedy, Ghosts, Haunted House, Black Comedy, Suspense, Cult Classic, Surreal, Demonic Possession, Fantasy

Tagline: In This House... If You've Seen One Ghost... You Haven't Seen Them All.

Plot: What’s a yuppie ghost couple to do when their quaint New England home is overturn by trendy New Yorkers? They hire a freelance “ bio-exorcist” to spook the intruders. And everyone gets more than he, she or it bargained for!

Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Winona Ryder and Sylvia Sidney share starring honours with the movie’s wondrous production design, Harry Belafonte soundtrack tunes and Academy Award – winning Best Makeup. So exorcise your right to fun. Say the “B” word three times and have a wonderful Day-O!

In the surreal, wonderfully cartoon-like comedy BEETLEJUICE, a childless couple, Barbara and Adam (Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin), move to the country only to be killed in a car accident while passing over a quaint covered bridge. Their ghosts return to their beloved Victorian home, and find the HANDBOOK FOR THE RECENTLY DECEASED, which not only lets them know they're dead, but comes in handy when they learn that they can continue to live in their house, even though a new family--from the land of the living--is moving in. The new owners, fresh from the city, are quite a strange group themselves, and include the overpowering hipster mom Delia (Catherine O'Hara), her pompous SoHo interior designer Otho (Glenn Shadix), her meek husband Charles (Jeffrey Jones), and their morose

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external linkI cant find the words to say about this movie that will not do it the justice it deserves, this movie is completely excellent in every way possible. 5/5



 Directed by
Tim Burton
Sleepy Hollow, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Batman
 Written by
Michael McDowell
The Nightmare Before Christmas, Thinner
Warren Skaaren
Fire with Fire
 Cast
Alec Baldwin
Pearl Harbor, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Aviator
Geena Davis
Thelma & Louise, A League of Their Own, Tootsie
Michael Keaton
Batman, Jackie Brown, Batman Returns
Jeffrey Jones
Sleepy Hollow, Amadeus, Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Winona Ryder
Edward Scissorhands, Alien: Resurrection, Dracula
Catherine O'Hara
Home Alone, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Glenn Shadix
Planet of the Apes, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Demolition Man
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 Music By
Danny Elfman
Good Will Hunting, Spider-Man 2, Men in Black



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