Beetlejuice (1988)
Tim Burton's comedy about a deceased couple haunting their old house and hiring a deranged bio-exorcist to scare out the living family. Alec Baldwin plays Adam Maitland.
Actor: Winona Ryder
Winona Ryder was the emblematic young American actor of the late 1980s and 1990s, in Heathers, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Reality Bites and The Age of Innocence, which brought a nomination.
Heathers is the essential one, playing a teenager who becomes complicit in murder and then has to extract herself, which is a difficult tonal balance for anyone.
A shoplifting conviction in 2001 and the surrounding press coverage effectively removed her from film for most of a decade.
Black Swan and Stranger Things brought a substantial return, and the reassessment of how she was treated in the early 2000s has been sympathetic.
