Beetlejuice
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Beetlejuice is a 1988 American fantasy comedy film directed by Tim Burton. The plot revolves around a recently deceased couple who become ghosts haunting their former home, and an obnoxious, devious poltergeist named Beetlejuice from the Netherworld who tries to scare away the new inhabitants.
Barbara and Adam Maitland live in an idyllic Connecticut country home in Winter River. Barbara's cousin Jane Butterfield, a pushy real estate agent, hounds them to sell their large home but they refuse. While driving home from a trip to the hardware store, they swerve to avoid a dog and their car plunges into the river. When the two return home they find they cannot remember how they got back, have no reflections, and when Adam attempts to leave the house he steps into an alien desert with monstrous sandworms. They find a book titled Handbook for the Recently Deceased and realize they drowned in the crash and are trapped haunting their house.
Jane sells their home to the Deetz family, from New York City: Charles, a former real estate developer; his second wife Delia, a sculptor; and his teenage goth daughter Lydia, from his first marriage. With her interior designer Otho, Delia make plans to renovate the house. The Maitlands attempt to frighten the family away but fail because they cannot be seen and take refuge in the attic. A spectre named Beetlejuice sends the two advertisements promoting himself as a "bio-exorcist". Consulting the Handbook, the Maitlands open a door to the Netherworld and discover that the afterlife is structured according to a complex bureaucracy. Their caseworker, Juno, informs them it is for them to get the Deetzes out if they want them gone. The two inquire about Beetlejuice and Juno explains he was her former assistant who became a freelancer, and advises that he is a troublemaker and they should not seek his help.
The Maitlands return to their house and meet Lydia, who is able to see them due to her strange nature and has read and understood the Handbook; the three become friends but the Maitlands still want to remove the Deetzes. They summon Beetlejuice, but his crude personality convinces them they made a mistake and they refuse to work with him. The Maitlands attempt to frighten the Deetzes at a dinner party, but their actions only amuse them and the Deetzes search the attic, and Otho takes the Handbook. Beetlejuice manifests as a monstrous snake and attacks them until the Maitlands order him back. Juno summons the Maitlands and reprimands them, as their subpar hauntings and summoning of Beetlejuice are providing proof of the afterlife to the living, and orders them to get rid of the Deetzes. The two cannot bring themselves to scare Lydia and decide to allow the family to stay.
Charles has the idea to turn the town into a tourist trap themed around the supernatural and convinces his former boss Maxie Dean to visit, and Maxie demands proof of the supernatural. Using the Handbook, Otho summons Adam and Barbara, but they begin to decay and he realizes what he thought was a séance was actually an exorcism. Lydia asks Beetlejuice for help and he agrees on the condition she marry him so he can be freed to enter the mortal world; she agrees and summons him. Beetlejuice stops the exorcism and disposes of Maxie, his wife, and Otho, then summons a ghastly minister to wed Lydia. The Maitlands intervene before the ceremony is completed, with Barbara riding a sandworm through the house to devour Beetlejuice.
The Maitlands and the Deetzes agree to live in the house in harmony, and Lydia becomes more socially-adjusted from her friendship with them as she attends school. Meanwhile in the afterlife, Beetlejuice impatiently sits in the afterlife waiting room waiting to be called in having a long wait and steals a witch doctor's number who is called in next where the witch doctor angrily shrinks his head.
Barbara and Adam Maitland live in an idyllic Connecticut country home in Winter River. Barbara's cousin Jane Butterfield, a pushy real estate agent, hounds them to sell their large home but they refuse. While driving home from a trip to the hardware store, they swerve to avoid a dog and their car plunges into the river. When the two return home they find they cannot remember how they got back, have no reflections, and when Adam attempts to leave the house he steps into an alien desert with monstrous sandworms. They find a book titled Handbook for the Recently Deceased and realize they drowned in the crash and are trapped haunting their house.
Jane sells their home to the Deetz family, from New York City: Charles, a former real estate developer; his second wife Delia, a sculptor; and his teenage goth daughter Lydia, from his first marriage. With her interior designer Otho, Delia make plans to renovate the house. The Maitlands attempt to frighten the family away but fail because they cannot be seen and take refuge in the attic. A spectre named Beetlejuice sends the two advertisements promoting himself as a "bio-exorcist". Consulting the Handbook, the Maitlands open a door to the Netherworld and discover that the afterlife is structured according to a complex bureaucracy. Their caseworker, Juno, informs them it is for them to get the Deetzes out if they want them gone. The two inquire about Beetlejuice and Juno explains he was her former assistant who became a freelancer, and advises that he is a troublemaker and they should not seek his help.
The Maitlands return to their house and meet Lydia, who is able to see them due to her strange nature and has read and understood the Handbook; the three become friends but the Maitlands still want to remove the Deetzes. They summon Beetlejuice, but his crude personality convinces them they made a mistake and they refuse to work with him. The Maitlands attempt to frighten the Deetzes at a dinner party, but their actions only amuse them and the Deetzes search the attic, and Otho takes the Handbook. Beetlejuice manifests as a monstrous snake and attacks them until the Maitlands order him back. Juno summons the Maitlands and reprimands them, as their subpar hauntings and summoning of Beetlejuice are providing proof of the afterlife to the living, and orders them to get rid of the Deetzes. The two cannot bring themselves to scare Lydia and decide to allow the family to stay.
Charles has the idea to turn the town into a tourist trap themed around the supernatural and convinces his former boss Maxie Dean to visit, and Maxie demands proof of the supernatural. Using the Handbook, Otho summons Adam and Barbara, but they begin to decay and he realizes what he thought was a séance was actually an exorcism. Lydia asks Beetlejuice for help and he agrees on the condition she marry him so he can be freed to enter the mortal world; she agrees and summons him. Beetlejuice stops the exorcism and disposes of Maxie, his wife, and Otho, then summons a ghastly minister to wed Lydia. The Maitlands intervene before the ceremony is completed, with Barbara riding a sandworm through the house to devour Beetlejuice.
The Maitlands and the Deetzes agree to live in the house in harmony, and Lydia becomes more socially-adjusted from her friendship with them as she attends school. Meanwhile in the afterlife, Beetlejuice impatiently sits in the afterlife waiting room waiting to be called in having a long wait and steals a witch doctor's number who is called in next where the witch doctor angrily shrinks his head.