Beetlejuice is a 1988 comey horror film directed by Tim Burton. The film stars Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Winona Ryder, Catherine O'Hara, Jeffrey Jones and Michael Keaton as Betelgeuse. The plot revolves around a recently deceased couple, Adam Maitland and wife Barbara who seek the help of obnoxious "bio-exorcist" Betelgeuse in order to remove the new owners of their quaint New England house, a family of metropolitan yuppies from New York City surnamed Deetz.