Beetlejuice

(Beetlejuice)

Basics

A film directed by Tim Burton
1988 | 92 minutes | Colour | Dolby | 1.85 : 1

Synopsis

In the surreal, wonderfully cartoon-like comedy Beetlejuice, a childless couple, Barbara and Adam, 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, her pompous  SoHo   interior   designer   Otho,   her   meek   husband
Charles,  and their morose teenage daughter Lydia, who befriends the ghostly couple. Though the  threesome  attempt  to  scare  Delia  from ruining  the  house  with  redecoration  and her unpleasant personality, their attempts fail. As a last resort, they call upon  the  services  of  the demented, terrifying, but hilarious 'bioexorcist', Beetlejuice.

Main Cast

Alec Baldwin
Geena Davis
Annie McEnroe
Maurice Page
Hugo Stanger
Michael Keaton
Rachel Mittelman
Catherine O'Hara
J. Jay Saunders
Mark Ettlinger
Jeffrey Jones
Winona Ryder
Glenn Shadix
Patrice Martinez
Cynthia Daly
Adam Maitland
Barbara Maitland
Jane Butterfield
Ernie
Old Bill
Betelgeuse
Little Jane Butterfield
Delia Deetz
Moving Man #1
Moving Man #2
Charles Deetz
Lydia Deetz
Otho
Receptionist
3-Fingered Typist

Production Companies

The Geffen Company

Distributors

Warner Bros. (USA)

Release Dates

🇺🇸 March 30, 1988
🇬🇧 August 19, 1988

Also Known As

The Maitlands (us)

Box-Office

Budget
$15,000,000