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: What are your qualifications?

Synopsis

The ghosts of a dead couple are haunted by an insufferable family that has moved into their home and hires a thug to drive them out. This is Michael Keaton's own favorite movie.. Otho's Shoes, when he spray paints the walls of the house, changes from fire engine red elf-looking shoes to white shoes as he walks through the bathroom, then changes back to elf red shoes as he enters the next room. Beetlejuice: Oh. Well... I went to Juilliard... I graduated from Harvard Business School.

I travel quite widely

I survived the Black Death and had a pretty good time of it. I'VE SEEN THE EXORCIST APPROXIMATELY SIXTY-SEVEN TIMES AND IT GETS FUNNIER EACH TIME I SEE IT...UNLESS YOU'RE TALKING TO A DEAD GUY...WHAT ARE YOU THINKING NOW? Do you think I'm qualified? The Geffen company logo is accompanied by a terrible version of the Banana Boat song (sung by the film's composer, Danny Elfman). A print of the film appeared with some added/alternate scenes. This version of the film is about 2 minutes shorter than the theatrical release, has a few extra scenes and is missing a few others, is in black and white, and has a timecode at the bottom. This version has 4 main differences: Alternate scene: The scene where Adam tried to leave the house after he and his wife died is different.

Edited for Terror Toons (2002)

Instead of a desert, he sees an empty darkness filled with rolling gears. Additional scenes: Added a scene where Lydia develops the pictures taken by Adam and Barbra. After her mother yells at her and blames her for cutting holes in the sheets, Lydia runs upstairs and tries to convince her dad that the pictures are real. The scene where the adults are looking for ghosts in the attic is even more so as we see a desert monster try to eat Adam and Barbra as they hang from the attic window. There is an extra 2 minute scene at the end where we see Lydia riding her bike home from school and her parents are on the phone with Jane saying they don't want to sell the house. Lydia's dance scene is shorter in this version, and there is no scene with Beetlejuice in the waiting room. The film ends with a final exterior shot of the house.

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Attaway & Irving Burge [Wrongly credited as written by William A. Attaway & Irving Burgess (as Lord Burgess)] Performed by Harry Belafonte of RCA Records. This is by far Michael Keaton's best performance. Every time he comes on screen, he delivers a performance so eccentric it rivals Jim Carrey from The Mask, only without much computer help. If his role calls for rudeness, he causes outrage; pushy he brings offensive; witty, he creates hilarious sarcasm. One of my few complaints is that he doesn't get enough screen time, even though he gets a lot of it, most of it goes to Jen Davis and Alex Baldwin. Tim Burton's direction is excellent.

This is a classic

My favorite scene so far doesn't even feature Michael Keaton. Anyone who has seen it will remember it as the dinner dance scene. If you haven't seen it, you either grew up under a rock or were born before me.