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    Oct 25, 2020 2 minutes
    by RUSSELL BAILLIE

    SATURDAY OCTOBER 31

    . The still-amusing early Tim Burton horror-comedy gave us Michael Keaton’s loopy spook Betelgeuse, who remains an excellent costume suggestion for scruffier dads to go trick and treating in. Geena Davis, Alec Baldwin and Winona Ryder also star in the film, the lasting cult appeal of which has translated to a Broadway musical in recent years. (1988)

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