Beetlejuice (1988) review

Adam (Alec Baldwin) and his wife Barbara (Geena Davis) die in an auto accident - they drive off a bridge in Connecticut and drown - and find that a new family, sculptor Delia (Catherine O'Hara), her businessman husband Charles (Jeffrey Jones) and teenage daughter Lydia (Winona Ryder) have moved in and they want them out, so they enlist the "help" of "bio-exorcist" Betelgeuse (Michael Keaton) to scare the life out of them.  There may not have been the biggest budget on this movie - some of the effects haven't aged particularly well - but it is incredibly imaginative and fun, with Keaton putting on a Master Class for overacting (he's reaching beyond the balcony).  It's also, oddly enough, life affirming: it never explicitly states it, but the Betelgeuse character committed suicide, which explains his reaction to Goth babe Lydia's contemplating taking her own life.  Gotta keep on truckin', etc.