Adam (Alec Baldwin) and Barbara (Geena Davis) Maitland live a quiet life in New England, until they drown after their car plunges into a river after swerving to avoid a dog on a covered bridge. When businessman Charles Deetz (Jeffrey Jones) buys their house, looking for some peace and quiet and a retreat from the city, and his artist wife Delia (Catherine O'Hara) begins to remodel their home, the Maitlands only hope for help is the dry and uninformative "Handbook for the Recently Deceased", their caseworker Juno (Sylvia Sydney), and low rent "bio-exorcist" Beetlejuice (Michael Keaton) who appears on their TV set in cheap looking commercials. Can the Maitlands and the Deetzes find a way to get along, and just how much trouble with Beetlejuice be for everyone, especially the Deetzes' "strange and unusual" daughter, Lydia (Winona Ryder)?![]()
