Beetlejuice
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Beetlejuice is a 1988 comedy film about two recently-deceased ghosts who enlist the help of a "bio-exorcist," Betelgeuse, to help remove a new family from their old house.
- Directed by Tim Burton. Written by Michael McDowell, Warren Skaaren and Larry Wilson.
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[edit] Betelgeuse
- Let's turn on the juice and see what shakes loose.
- Hey, these aren't my rules! Come to think of it, I don't have any rules!
[edit] Lydia
- [About her stepmother, Delia] She's sleeping with Prince Valium tonight.
[edit] Delia
- I will live with you in this hellhole, but I must express myself. If you don't let me gut out this house and make it my own, I will go insane and I will take you with me!
[edit] Otho
- Don't mind her. She's still upset that someone dropped a house on her sister.
[edit] Dialogue
- Delia: I can't believe we're eating Cantonese. Is there no Szechuan up here?
- Lydia: I plan to have a stroke from the amount of MSG that's in this food.
- Delia: This is our first meal in this house, so why don't we all do our little private parts to make it a pleasant one.
- Charles: Don't bait your mother, Pumpkin. As soon as we get settled, we'll build you a darkroom in the basement.
- Lydia: My whole life is a darkroom. One... big... dark... room.
- Delia: So you were miserable in the city, and now you're going to be miserable out here in the sticks. At least someone's life hasn't been upheaved.
- Adam: What are your qualifications?
- Betelgeuse: [refined voice] Ah, well... I attended Julliard... I'm a graduate of the Harvard Business School. I travel quite extensively. I lived through the Black Plague and had a pretty good time during that. [getting progressively more demented] I've seen "The Exorcist" about 167 times, and it keeps getting funnier every single time I see it! Not to mention the fact that you're talking to a dead guy! Now what do you think?! You think I'm "qualified"?
[edit] Taglines
- In This House... If You've Seen One Ghost... You Haven't Seen Them All.
[edit] Cast
- Winona Ryder — Lydia
- Michael Keaton — Betelgeuse
- Geena Davis — Barbara
- Alec Baldwin — Adam
- Catherine O'Hara — Delia
- Jeffrey Jones — Charles
- Glenn Shadix — Otho
- Sylvia Sidney — Juno
- Dick Cavett — Bernard
