Beetlejuice DVD

Beetlejuice
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

Cast Alec Baldwin as Adam Maitland Geena Davis as Barbara Maitland Michael Keaton as Betelgeuse Jeffrey Jones as Charles Deetz Catherine O'Hara as Delia Deetz Winona Ryder as Lydia Deetz Glenn Shadix as Otho Sylvia Sidney as Juno Robert Goulet as Maxie Dean Dick Cavett as Bernard Annie McEnroe as Jane Butterfield Simmy Bow as Janitor

Crew Thomas A. Duffield - Art Director Jane Jenkins - Casting Chrissy Bocchino - Choreography Richard Hashimoto - Co-producer Michael Bender - Co-producer Larry Wilson - Co-producer Aggie Guerard Rodgers - Costume Designer Bill Scott - First Assistant Director Tim Burton - Director Jane Kurson - Editor Danny Elfman - Composer (Music Score) Fitzroy Alexander - Songwriter Rafaeal Leon - Songwriter Bob Gordon - Songwriter Raymond Bell - Songwriter Lord Burgess - Songwriter William Attaway - Songwriter Norman Span - Songwriter Steve LaPorte - Makeup Ve Neill - Makeup Robert Short - Makeup Special Effects Robert W. Welch III - Production Designer Thomas E. Ackerman - Cinematographer Larry Wilson - Producer Richard Hashimoto - Producer Michael Bender - Producer Catherine Mann - Set Designer Richard McKenzie - Set Designer John Warnke - Set Designer Peter Kuran - Special Effects Robert Short - Special Effects VCE, Inc. - Special Effects Charles Gaspar - Special Effects Steve Maslow - Sound/Sound Designer David Ronne - Sound/Sound Designer Fred Lerner - Stunts Chuck Gaspar - Special Effects Supervisor Larry Wilson - Screen Story Michael McDowell - Screen Story Warren Skaaren - Screenwriter Larry Wilson - Screenwriter Michael McDowell - Screenwriter Michael Bender - Screenwriter Richard L. Anderson - Supervising Sound Editor

Beetlejuice
Tim Burton caught audiences' attention with Pee Wee's Big Adventure (1985), but Beetlejuice established him as film's prominent imaginer of skewed fairytale worlds. Even after several subsequent collaborations with composer Danny Elfman and a couple of this film's stars (Winona Ryder, Michael Keaton), Beetlejuice still exists as the prototypical Burton film, if not actually his best. A veritable wellspring of imagination, the film removes ghosts from the horror realm and puts them in the slapstick world of Keaton's wisecracking title character, a con artist who specializes in expunging the living from the homes of the dead. Keaton's performance is spotty and over-the-top, but Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis are nicely understated as the mild-mannered spirits doomed to haunt their bucolic mansion (an architectural creation that's trademark Burton), even though they're more interested in peace and privacy than acting ghoulish. The film also features such hammy icons as Dick Cavett and Robert Goulet, giving a good preview of Burton's knack for oddball casting. The effects are first-rate for their time, and include such wonderful oddities as a snake creature that slithers through the dunes of an afterworld purgatory, and a dead waiting room occupant with a head shrunk to the size of a prune. The film is notable for providing Ryder her breakout role, and it represents one of the only times Jeffrey Jones hasn't played a weaselly villain. ~ Derek Armstrong, All Movie Guide
 

Robert Short: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie, Best Makeup (winner) Steve LaPorte: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie, Best Makeup (winner) Ve Neill: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie, Best Makeup (winner)

General Specifications: Language Options: English, French, Spanish Subtitle Options: English, French, Spanish Sound Processing: 5.1: 5 full-range channels. Includes 3 for the front speakers, 2 surround channels for rear speakers, & 1 low-frequency effects (LFE) channel to carry deep bass effects 2: PCM stereo Additional Features: cc Soundtrack remastered in Dolby Digital 5.1 Interactive menus Production notes Theatrical trailer Scene access Languages and subtitles: English, Français, and Español. DVD Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1: Theatre Wide-Screen 1.33:1: Pre-1954 Standard MPAA Rating: PG DVD Discs Included: 1 DVD Sides: 2 DVD DVD Region Code: 1 Content Length: 92 min   DVD Chapters: Jump to a Scene 0. Jump to a Scene 1. Overhead Credits. [2:36] 2. The perfect vacation. [3:05] 3. A wrong turn. [2:27] 4. Recently deceased. [2:43] 5. Perusing the obits. [2:22] 6. Enter teh Deetzes. [2:48] 7. Ghostly gambits. [3:27] 8. Wormlike wildlife. [2:35] 9. Moving day. [2:41] 10. The power of advertising. [1:53] 11. The afterlife. [4:56] 12. Interview with Juno. [5:43] 13. Help me!. [:57] 14. Unspookable. [5:29] 15. Beetlejuice. [6:50] 16. The dinner party (Day-O). [4:16] 17. No-shows. [3:51] 18. Turn on the juice. [2:08] 19. "Make my millennium". [1:40] 20. Never trust the living. [1:20] 21. Funny faces. [3:12] 22. Lydia meets Beetlejuice. [4:21] 23. Otho's seance. [5:34] 24. "It's showtime". [2:13] 25. A marriage of inconvenience. [5:23] 26. High marks (Jump in the Line). [2:14] 27. Lightheaded. [1:17] 28. End Credits (Jump in the Line). [3:48] Jump to a Scene 0. Jump to a Scene 1. Overhead Credits. [2:36] 2. The perfect vacation. [3:05] 3. A wrong turn. [2:27] 4. Recently deceased. [2:43] 5. Perusing the obits. [2:22] 6. Enter teh Deetzes. [2:48] 7. Ghostly gambits. [3:27] 8. Wormlike wildlife. [2:35] 9. Moving day. [2:41] 10. The power of advertising. [1:53] 11. The afterlife. [4:56] 12. Interview with Juno. [5:43] 13. Help me!. [:57] 14. Unspookable. [5:29] 15. Beetlejuice. [6:50] 16. The dinner party (Day-O). [4:16] 17. No-shows. [3:51] 18. Turn on the juice. [2:08] 19. "Make my millennium". [1:40] 20. Never trust the living. [1:20] 21. Funny faces. [3:12] 22. Lydia meets Beetlejuice. [4:21] 23. Otho's seance. [5:34] 24. "It's showtime". [2:13] 25. A marriage of inconvenience. [5:23] 26. High marks (Jump in the Line). [2:14] 27. Lightheaded. [1:17] 28. End Credits (Jump in the Line). [3:48]