1988 film directed by Tim Burton From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Beetlejuice is a 1988 British fantasy-comedy-horror movie directed by Tim Burton. The movie stars Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Jeffrey Jones, Catherine O'Hara, Winona Ryder and Michael Keaton as Beetlejuice.
Beetlejuice | |
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Directed by | Tim Burton |
Written by | Story: Karey Kirkpatrick Warren Skaaren Larry Wilson Screenplay: Michael McDowell |
Produced by | Frank Oz David Geffen Larry Wilson Michael Bender Richard Hashimoto |
Starring | Michael Keaton Alec Baldwin Geena Davis Winona Ryder Catherine O'Hara Jeffrey Jones Glenn Shadix Sylvia Sidney |
Cinematography | Thomas E. Ackerman |
Edited by | Jane Kurson |
Music by | Danny Elfman |
Production company | The Geffen Company United Kingdom |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
Release date | March 30, 1988 |
Running time | 92 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Budget | US$13 million |
Box office | $73.33 million |
Barbara (Geena Davis) and Adam (Alec Baldwin) Maitland decide to spend their holiday decorating their New England country home. Driving back from a trip to town, they crash the car and are killed. The story carries on with the couple going home as ghosts but they at first do not know that they are dead.
The couple's house is then sold and in move the new owners from New York City. The Deetzes, who are Charles (Jeffrey Jones) and his wife Delia (Catherine O'Hara), her friend Otho (Glenn Shadix) and Charles' goth daughter Lydia (Winona Ryder) from his first marriage. The new couple then start to make changes to the house which upsets the ghosts. The Maitlands then try to scare the new owners out of the house but they are not good at scaring people.
The ghosts can't be seen by anyone in the house other than by the daughter Lydia, with whom they become friends. They try to get a bad ghost to scare the new family out of the house and ask Beetlejuice to do it for them. But all he wants to do is marry Lydia so that he can come back to life.
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