Ghostbusters (1984 film)

Ghostbusters
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Ivan Reitman
Produced by	Ivan Reitman
Written by	Dan Aykroyd Harold Ramis
Starring	Bill Murray Dan Aykroyd Sigourney Weaver Harold Ramis Rick Moranis
Music by	Elmer Bernstein
Cinematography	László Kovács
Edited by	David E. Blewitt Sheldon Kahn
Production companies	Black Rhino Delphi Productions
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date	June 7, 1984 (1984-06-07) (Westwood) June 8, 1984 (1984-06-08) (United States)
Running time	105 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$30 million
Box office	$295.2 million

Ghostbusters: Original Motion Picture Score
Film score by Elmer Bernstein
Released	2006
Genre	Classical, electronic
Length	68:02
Label	Varèse Sarabande

Ghostbusters is a 1984 American supernatural comedy film directed and produced by Ivan Reitman and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. The film stars Bill Murray, Aykroyd and Ramis as three eccentric parapsychologists who start a ghost-catching business in New York City. Sigourney Weaver and Rick Moranis co-star as a client and her neighbor, and Ernie Hudson as the Ghostbusters' first recruit.

Aykroyd conceived the film as a project for himself and fellow Saturday Night Live alumnus John Belushi, with the "Ghostmashers" travelling through time and space in the future with magic wands. He and Ramis dramatically rewrote the script following Belushi's death and after Reitman deemed Aykroyd's initial vision financially impractical.

Ghostbusters was released in the United States on June 8, 1984. It received a positive response from critics and audiences and grossed $242 million in the United States and more than $295 million worldwide. It was nominated for two Oscars at the 57th Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects and Best Original Song (for the eponymous theme song), but lost to Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and The Woman in Red respectively. The American Film Institute ranked Ghostbusters 28th in its AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs list of film comedies. In 2015, the United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry, finding it "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".