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Beetlejuice

Perhaps Tim Burton’s definitive work, if not exactly his most polished. A yuppie couple (Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis) die in the midst of renovating a mansion and enlist the help of the title ghost (Michael Keaton, doing ADD before we had a name for it) in scaring the new owners away. This has plenty of Burton’s macabre wit (the waiting room of the recently deceased includes a man with a shrunken head); a good deal of satire (the dead couple is mostly troubled by the new owners’ decorating tastes); and a young Winona Ryder doing a dead-on portrayal of a creepy, alienated teen.

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