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Winona Ryder and Jenna Ortega lead the Beetlejuice stars leaving Venice Film Festival after their red carpet premiere


The actress, 52, and her co-star, 21, headed to the city's Marco Polo airport to jet out of the country on Wednesday.

The teenage goth is a middle-aged widow now, a distant mother to moody Astrid (Jenna Ortega) and host psychic of a popular TV show called Ghost House, which is produced by her creepy boyfriend Rory (Justin Theroux). After Lydia learns from her stepmother Delia (Catherine O'Hara, another 1988 original) that her father has been eaten by a shark, the family gathers for the funeral back in the picture-postcard New England town of Winter River and Rory prepares a singularly ill-timed proposal of marriage. But in the meantime, the decidedly dead demon Betelgeuse (pronounced Beetlejuice and extravagantly played once again by Michael Keaton) has designs on the grown-up and very much alive Lydia who, you might remember, he tried to trick into marrying him all those decades ago - in the days when nobody raised much of an eyebrow at a lustful older man, deceased or not, preying on a schoolgirl as a premise for comedy.

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