Movie
by Michael McDowell, Larry Wilson, Warren Skaaren, Betelgeuse, Michael Keaton and 59 others
Thanks to an untimely demise via drowning, a young couple end up as poltergeists in their New England farmhouse, where they fail to meet the challenge of scaring away the insufferable new owners, who want to make drastic changes. In desperation, the undea
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“Delia: Charles, I will not stop living and breathing art just because you need to relax. Charles: Ha. Delia: I'm here with you. I will live with you in this hellhole, but I must express myself. If you don't let me gut out this house and make it my own, I will go insane, and I will take you with me!…”
— Michael McDowell, Larry Wilson, Warren Skaaren, Delia Deetz, Catherine O'Hara, imdb.com
“[to Lydia, about the owner of the finger he pulled out of a wedding ring] I'm tellin' ya, honey, she meant nothin' to me. Nothin' at all!”
— Michael McDowell, Larry Wilson, Warren Skaaren, Betelgeuse, Michael Keaton, imdb.com
“Bernard: Otho, I didn't realize you were into the supernatural. Otho: Well, of course! You remember, after my stint with the Living Theatre. I was one of New York City's leading paranormal researchers, until the bottom dropped out in '72. Beryl: [cynically] Paranormal—is that what they're calling yo…”
— Michael McDowell, Larry Wilson, Warren Skaaren, Bernard, Dick Cavett, imdb.com
“Barbara: [after Jane did not hear Adam call her] She didn't see you, right? Adam: Uh-uh. Barbara: [reading the handbook] In the book: 'Rule Number Two: the living usually won't see the dead.' Adam: 'Won't' or 'can't'? Barbara: It just says 'won't'. God, this book is so stupid. I can't understand any…”
— Michael McDowell, Larry Wilson, Warren Skaaren, Barbara Maitland, Geena Davis, imdb.com
“Beetlejuice: I'm feeling a little, ooh, anxious if you know what I mean. It's been about six hundred years after all. I wonder where a guy, an everyday Joe like myself, can find a little action... [a brothel appears, he dances with joy] Hey Adam, nice move! Barbara: Adam, why did you build that? Ada…”
— Michael McDowell, Larry Wilson, Warren Skaaren, Betelgeuse, Michael Keaton, imdb.com
“Adam: How is it that you can see us but nobody else can? Lydia: Well, I read in that Handbook For The Recently Deceased. It says, 'Live people ignore the strange and unusual.' I, myself, am strange and unusual. Barbara: You look like a regular girl to me.”
— Michael McDowell, Larry Wilson, Warren Skaaren, Adam Maitland, Alec Baldwin, imdb.com
“Lydia: Mr. and Mrs. Maitland? Hello? Where are you? Beetlejuice: Dead. Dead, dead, deadski. Lydia: Of course they're dead. They're ghosts. Beetlejuice: No, I mean they're gone, split, out of here, afterlife kids, deceased—ahh. Lydia: Are you a ghost, too? Beetlejuice: I'm a ghost with the most, babe…”
— Michael McDowell, Larry Wilson, Warren Skaaren, Betelgeuse, Michael Keaton, imdb.com
“Very Dumb Football Player: [the football players have re-entered Juno's office] Coach? Juno: What? Very Dumb Football Player: [looking disturbed] I don't think we survived that crash. Juno: [sarcastically] How did you guess?”
— Michael McDowell, Larry Wilson, Warren Skaaren, Juno, Sylvia Sidney, imdb.com
“[why he can't tell Lydia his name] Because if I tell you, you'll tell your friends, your friends are callin' me on the horn all the time, I gotta show up at shopping centers for openings and sign autographs and shit like that and it makes my life a hell. Okay? A living hell.”
— Michael McDowell, Larry Wilson, Warren Skaaren, Betelgeuse, Michael Keaton, imdb.com
“Adam: You can see us without the sheets? Lydia: Of course I can see you. Adam: Well, how is it you see us and nobody else can? Lydia: Well, I've read through that handbook for the recently deceased. It says: 'live people ignore the strange and unusual.' I myself am strange and unusual. Barbara: You…”
— Michael McDowell, Larry Wilson, Warren Skaaren, Adam Maitland, Alec Baldwin, imdb.com