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Beetlejuice

Name: Beetlejuice
Director: Tim Burton
Genre: Fantasy, Comedy
Released: 1988
Rating: 7.4
Cast: Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Winona Ryder, Catherine O'Hara, Jeffrey Jones

A newly dead New England couple seeks help from a deranged demon exorcist to scare an affluent New York family out of their home.

1988 · Directed by Tim Burton · 92 min · Fantasy · Comedy · 16 frames

Tagline

In this house... if you've seen one ghost... you haven't seen them all.

Crew

Screenplay: Warren Skaaren, Michael McDowell
Cinematography: Thomas E. Ackerman
Edited by: Jane Kurson
Music: Danny Elfman
Production design: Bo Welch
Produced by: Michael Bender, Larry Wilson, Richard Hashimoto

Cast

Alec Baldwin as Adam
Geena Davis as Barbara
Winona Ryder as Lydia
Catherine O'Hara as Delia
Jeffrey Jones as Charles
Michael Keaton as Betelgeuse
Glenn Shadix as Otho
Sylvia Sidney as Juno
Patrice Martinez as Receptionist
Dick Cavett as Bernard

Production

Country: United States of America
Language: English
Studios: Geffen Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures
Budget: $15,000,000
Box office: $84,554,197
Themes: skeleton, afterlife, calypso, supernatural, arts, halloween, haunted house, minister, possession, giant snake

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Dumbo — 2019
Batman Returns — 1992
Corpse Bride — 2005
Ed Wood — 1994
Pee-wee's Big Adventure — 1985
Big Fish — 2003
Dark Shadows — 2012
Frankenweenie — 2012
Mars Attacks! — 1996
Planet of the Apes — 2001
Big Eyes — 2014

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