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MPAA Rating: PG Content Advisory: Mild Violence, Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Adult Language Movie Release: 1988 DVD Release: 06/25/1997 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV,Pan and Scan - Closed Captioned Audio Tracks: English, French, Spanish Subtitles: English, French, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 32 mins Studio: Warner Home Video Members Wishing: 36 Genres: Fantasy, Black Comedy, Fantasy Comedy, Haunted House Film, Heaven-Can-Wait Fantasies See Also: Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice [20th Anniversary Edition] [Deluxe Edition], Beetlejuice [Blu-ray] [20th Anniversary Edition] [Digi Book Packaging]

Thanks to the carelessness of a cute little dog, newlyweds Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin are killed in a freak auto accident. Upon arriving in the outer offices of Heaven, the couple finds that, thanks to a century's worth of bureaucratic red tape, they're on a long celestial waiting list. Before they can earn their wings, Davis and Baldwin must occupy their old house as ghosts for the next fifty years. Alas, the house is now owned by insufferable yuppies Catherine O'Hara and Jeffrey Jones. Horrified at the prospect of sharing space with these obnoxious interlopers, Davis and Baldwin do their best to scare O'Hara and Jones away, but their house-haunting skills are pathetic at best. In desperation, the ghostly couple engage the services of a veteran scaremeister: a yellow-haired, snaggle-toothed, profane, flatulent "gonzo" spirit named Beetlejuice (Michael Keaton). The problem: Beetlejuice cannot be trusted-especially when he falls in love with O'Hara and Jones' gloomy, black-clad teenaged daughter Winona Ryder. Beetlejuice producer David Geffen, director Tim Burton, and composer Danny Elfman were also involved in an animated TV-series spin-off. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Alec Baldwin - Adam Maitland
Geena Davis - Barbara Maitland
Michael Keaton - Betelgeuse
Jeffrey Jones - Charles Deetz
Catherine O'Hara - Delia Deetz

With wide-ranging and resonant Dolby Surround 5.1 audio, the DVD of Beetlejuice contains a matted widescreen picture of crisp motion and clarity that reproduces its theatrical aspect ratio. It comes with the following special features: cast biographies and filmographies (all text), the theatrical trailer, a "Film Flash" section of recommended movies, subtitles in English, French, and Spanish, and production notes broken into four text-only sections -- "Behind the Scenes" (the production notes proper), "Movie Magic" (a section on how the special effects were done), "The Writers," and "The Composer" (who is one of the founders of the rock band Oingo Boingo). Also included is a music-only option for playing just the soundtrack. ~ Craig Chalquist, All Movie Guide