Ever notice that every blockbuster movie has the same fundamental pieces? A hero, a journey, some conflicts to muck it all up, a reward, and the hero returning home and everybody applauding his or...

Location, location, location. It's a real-estate mantra. These are still the three most important things when you're choosing a home and they're a pretty big deal when deciding where to set your mo...

Three-Act Structure For a movie featuring ghosts who love Calypso music and cocktail shrimp on the rampage, Beetlejuice is pretty classic when it comes to basic plot structure. The story roughly fo...

Comedy, Fantasy, HorrorBeetlejuice plays almost every scene for laughs. The Maitlands die? It's kind of funny. Barbara rips her face off? Hilarious. Adam and Barbara turn into ghoulish monsters? We...

Even though he only gets about 17 minutes of screen time, Beetlejuice the movie is named for the troublemaking ghost at the center of the action, Betelgeuse. The Ghost with the Most takes top billi...

Beetlejuice has a pretty upbeat ending, considering the protagonists are dead. Lydia has just scored an A on the math test and the Maitlands and Deetzes are living happily together in their newly r...

PG-13Betelgeuse is rude, crude, and often in a bad mood, so this movie does get a little shocking at times. From the moment we meet the Ghost with the Most, he starts to grope women and complain ab...