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Beetlejuice

(1988)

This was such a disappointment. It started out so fresh and funny, and then got stupid. What I could not abide was that there was a book, a guide to the afterlife, and if the couple had simply read it, as everyone else did, they could have avoided everything that happened to them. Known in the trade as the “Idiot plot,” because it can’t happen unless everyone involved is an idiot.