beetlejuice

Beetlejuice is a film directed by Tim Burton, first released in the USA on March 30, 1988, and produced by The Geffen Film Company for Warner Bros. Pictures. more...

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It features two recently deceased ghosts, Adam Maitland (Alec Baldwin) and his wife, Barbara, (Geena Davis), who seek the help of an obnoxious bio-exorcist, Betelgeuse (Michael Keaton), to remove the Deetz family — metropolitan yuppies who recently moved from New York City and now occupy their old house. The Deetz family consists of Charles (Jeffrey Jones); his second wife, Delia (Catherine O'Hara); and teenage daughter Lydia (Winona Ryder). This marks the first time that Keaton and Burton teamed up, the second and third being Batman and Batman Returns. The score was composed by Danny Elfman.

Synopsis

The film opens in a bucolic New England town, and Barbara and Adam Maitland are just settling in to their new house. The pair experience a car wreck, and suddenly find themselves in their kitchen. A series of bizarre happenings convince the two that they are dead, and they can no longer leave the house.

Following instructions from The Handbook for the Recently Deceased, the couple makes their way to a bureaucratic nightmare of an afterlife. After navigating the red tape, they encounter Juno, their case worker, who informs them that they are indeed dead, and they must haunt their old home for 125 years.

They return to their house, only to find several months have passed, and that the house is now inhabited by a yuppie couple from New York, together with their depressed, goth daughter Lydia. The Maitlands try to scare off the new arrival, but their efforts go unnoticed by everyone but Lydia, who is more intrigued than frightened by the ghosts.

The Maitlands hire Betelgeuse, a self-proclaimed \"bioexorcist\" to rid them of the yuppies, but things go badly wrong when Betelgeuse's methods put Lydia and her family in real danger. The danger begins when Beetlegeuse transforms into a gigantic rattlesnake and knocks Otho down the stairs with his rattle and grabs Charles by the ankle with his rattle, pulls him out of the room, hangs him him over the handrail and lets go of him and Charles injues his forehead. In a climactic battle, the Maitlands and Lydia expel Betelgeuse and reclaim their home, leaving the two families to co-exist in the house.

The World of Beetlejuice

The name of the film is Beetlejuice, and the character's name is pronounced \"Beetlejuice\" by the actors, but in the film itself the character's name is always spelled \"Betelgeuse\", like the star. Repeating this name three times is all that is required to summon him; three more repetitions will make him leave. Adam and Barbara are not his only victims, for scams are his specialty. He used to be an assistant to Juno (Sylvia Sidney), the Maitlands' case worker, before getting into trouble (he tried exorcism on the living instead of the dead, hence his nickname the bio-exorcist). Betelgeuse is rude, vulgar and lecherous, eats insects, and loves to terrify people.

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