Beetle Juice (1988)

In the surreal, wonderfully cartoon-like comedy BEETLEJUICE, a childless couple, Barbara and Adam (Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin), 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 ov...
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erpowering hipster mom Delia (Catherine O'Hara), her pompous SoHo interior designer Otho (Glenn Shadix), her meek husband Charles (Jeffrey Jones), and their morose teenage daughter Lydia (Winona Ryder), 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" (Michael Keaton). Director Tim Burton scores big with witty site gags, incredible special effects and sets, and a unique ensemble of characters. BEETLEJUICE is a visually inventive and imaginative comedy taken to a uniquely grotesque and funny level by the manic performance of Michael Keaton in the title role.
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Cinematographer Ernest R. Dickerson directed and co-wrote this crime drama about a group of friends who get involved in a robbery. Bishop (Tupac Shakur), Q (Omar Epps), Raheem (Khalil Kain), and Steel (Jermaine Hopkins) are four Harlem friends who spend their days skipping school, getting in fights, and casually shoplifting. The only member of the group who has plans for the future is Q, who dreams of becoming a deejay. But one day Bishop happens to see James Cagney in White Heat and the film inspires him to buy a gun. His plan is to rob a corner store and split the money. Everyone goes along with the plan except...
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for Q, who is competing that night in a deejay contest. At the club, Q is a rousing success, but he spies the stern faces of his friends through the cheering crowd and realizes that he has to go along with the robbery, which goes completely wrong.
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Story of four young men coming of age on the streets of Harlem.

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Barbara en Adam Maitlin zijn betrokken bij een zwaar auto-ongeval. Wanneer ze thuiskomen beseffen ze dat ze eigenlijk niet meer leven. Hun huis wordt verkocht en de nieuwe eigenaars willen het omtoveren tot een excentriek gebouw. De Maitlins hebben het hier zeer moeilijk mee en beseffen dat ze de nieuwe eigenaars als spoken angst kunnen aanjagen. Maar al vlug dringt het tot hen door dat het leven na de dood niet zo eenvoudig is. Wanneer ze willen spoken, zullen ze eerst moeten leren hoe dat werkt. Ook al krijgen ze de hulp van Juno, toch blijken de nieuwe eigenaars zeer goed opgewassen tegen lugubere geluiden en ...
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vreemde krachten. De Maitlins raken stilaan wanhopig en vragen de hulp van Beetlejuice, een spook dat zich kan omvormen tot een verschrikkelijk monster.
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