Beetlejuice is a
film directed by
Tim Burton, first released in the
USA on
March 30,
1988, and produced by
The Geffen Film Company for
Warner Bros. Pictures. It features two recently deceased ghosts, Adam Maitland (
Alec Baldwin) and his wife, Barbara, (
Geena Davis), who seek the help of an obnoxious bio-exorcist, Beetlejuice (
Michael Keaton), to remove the Deetz family — metropolitan
yuppies who recently moved from the city and now occupy their old house. The Deetz family consists of Charles (
Jeffrey Jones); his second wife, Delia (
Catherine O'Hara); and moody
goth teenage daughter Lydia (
Winona Ryder).