Beetlejuice (movie)

Beetlejuice
Beetlejuice
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Directed by	Tim Burton
Screenplay by	Michael McDowell; Warren Skaaren;
Story by	Michael McDowell; Larry Wilson;
Produced by	Michael Bender; Larry Wilson; Richard Hashimoto;
Starring	Alec Baldwin; Geena Davis; Jeffrey Jones; Catherine O'Hara; Winona Ryder; Michael Keaton;
Cinematography	Thomas E. Ackerman
Edited by	Jane Kurson
Music by	Danny Elfman
Production; company	The Geffen Company
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date	March 30, 1988;
Running time	92 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$15 million
Box office	$84.6 million

Beetlejuice is a 1988 American gothic comedy horror movie^[4]^[5]^[6] film directed by Tim Burton from a screenplay by Michael McDowell and Warren Skaaren based on a story by McDowell and Larry Wilson. The film stars Michael Keaton as Betelgeuse^[a], along with Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Jeffrey Jones, Catherine O'Hara and Winona Ryder.

The plot revolves around Adam and Barbara Maitland, a recently deceased couple. As ghosts, they are not allowed to leave their house. They contact Betelgeuse, a sleazy "bio-exorcist", to scare the house's new inhabitants away. The film prominently features music from Harry Belafonte's albums Calypso and Jump Up Calypso.

Beetlejuice was released in the United States on March 30, 1988, by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film was a critical and commercial success, grossing $84 million against a $15 million budget. It won the Academy Award for Best Makeup and three Saturn Awards: Best Horror Film, Best Makeup, and Best Supporting Actress for Sylvia Sidney. The film's success spawned a media franchise, consisting of an animated television series, video games, a 2018 stage musical and a 2024 sequel, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.

Plot

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.

Cast

Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis as Adam and Barbara Maitland: A young, married couple who are killed in a car accident.
Winona Ryder as Lydia Deetz: Daughter of Charles Deetz and stepdaughter of Delia Deetz, a goth adolescent. She is the only one of the family who can see the Maitlands and quickly befriends them.
Catherine O'Hara as Delia Deetz: Wife of Charles and stepmother to Lydia and a sculptor.
Jeffrey Jones as Charles Deetz: A successful builder
Glenn Shadix as Otho: Delia's friend and ghost expert
Sylvia Sidney as Juno: Social worker for the dead.
Michael Keaton as Beetlejuice: The bad ghost in the movie.

References

↑ Ebert, Roger (March 30, 1988). "Beetlejuice". Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from the original on August 28, 2019. Retrieved June 13, 2010. Approved Running time 91m 56s
↑ Beetlejuice. The Numbers. Nash Information Services, LLC. Retrieved August 8, 2024.
↑ "Beetlejuice (1988)".
↑ Steer, Emily (September 5, 2024). "'Marrying monstrosity with sublime beauty': Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and the historic roots of goth". BBC. Retrieved November 5, 2024.
↑ Erickson, Hal. "Beetlejuice (1988)". Allmovie. Archived from the original on July 19, 2013. Retrieved October 6, 2012.
↑ Nero, Dom (October 11, 2018). "Beetlejuice Is a Horror-Fantasy-Comedy Hybrid Above All Categorization". Esquire. Archived from the original on June 5, 2020. Retrieved November 10, 2018.

Other websites

↑ The title character's name is variously spelled "Betelgeuse", "Beetle Juice", and "Beetlejuice" in the film, script, and credits. The "Betelgeuse" spelling is used throughout this article for consistency.

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[1] Ebert, Roger (March 30, 1988). "Beetlejuice". Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from the original on August 28, 2019. Retrieved June 13, 2010. Approved Running time 91m 56s

[numbers-2] Beetlejuice. The Numbers. Nash Information Services, LLC. Retrieved August 8, 2024.

[3] "Beetlejuice (1988)".

[4] Steer, Emily (September 5, 2024). "'Marrying monstrosity with sublime beauty': Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and the historic roots of goth". BBC. Retrieved November 5, 2024.

[5] Erickson, Hal. "Beetlejuice (1988)". Allmovie. Archived from the original on July 19, 2013. Retrieved October 6, 2012.

[6] Nero, Dom (October 11, 2018). "Beetlejuice Is a Horror-Fantasy-Comedy Hybrid Above All Categorization". Esquire. Archived from the original on June 5, 2020. Retrieved November 10, 2018.

[spelling-7] The title character's name is variously spelled "Betelgeuse", "Beetle Juice", and "Beetlejuice" in the film, script, and credits. The "Betelgeuse" spelling is used throughout this article for consistency.

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