Today is "Beetlejuice"
Starring Michael Keaton, Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin
The summer sun shines down upon the green lush town of Winter River. A lovely couple (Davis and Baldwin) are enjoying a relaxing vacation at home, listening to those nostalgic Harry Belafonte songs. They go out for a quick errand. On the way home they carefully avoid running over a dog, standing in the middle of the road next to a bridge, and skillfully careen the car and crash into what looks like a very shallow creek, and die rather sloppily.
While being dead, they find a book that details in stereo instruction manual form welcoming information on the 'other side'. The realtor doesn't even wait till their bodies are cold in the ground before selling their house to a small family. The tragic, mysterious daughter is the only one who can see the ghosts of the deceased couple. She takes photographs.
Beetlejuice is being his normal self. In this movie the ghosts run amok while avoiding saying the name Beetlejuice three times. The live-in interior designer creates an environment not too different from the 'other side' and Beetlejuice himself lives in a model replica of the town, that's collecting dust in the attic.
The living family invites people over to see ghosts and sculptures. Beetlejuice wants to live again and gets the living yet suicidal daughter placed in a situation of marriage to be legal. Dead or alive. And if that wasn't enough, the lovely couple invite the family who invited their circle of friends to pester them, to continue to live in their house. The same house that had no organic flow-through. Mainly because it was a house that leaned more to being a haunt for ghosts and not too far away from Saturn.
This has been my Movie Review. Have a happy millennium.
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