The Ghoulishly Retro Pleasures of "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice"
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"Beetlejuice" may have been a netherworld burlesque, but it was also a stirring tragicomedy about the conjoined fates of the living and the departed, firm in its belief that death... ultimately offered its sufferers no more relief or resolution than life.
At its heart, and in its playfully jaundiced soul, "Beetlejuice" was also a movie about the burdens and blessings of family—and, specifically, about the comedy, horror, and surprising resilience of marriage.
Read at The New Yorker
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