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Ghostbusters (1984 film)

Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters (1984) theatrical poster.png
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Ivan Reitman
Produced by Ivan Reitman
Written by
Starring
Music by Elmer Bernstein
Cinematography László Kovács
Edited by
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 Soundtrack Album
Soundtrack album by various artists
Released 1984
Genre Pop, new wave, synthpop, R&B
Length 37:38
Label Arista
Ghostbusters soundtrack chronology
Ghostbusters
(1984)
Ghostbusters II
(1989)
Singles from Ghostbusters: Original Soundtrack Album
  1. "Ghostbusters"
    Released: May 1984
Ghostbusters: Original Motion Picture Score
Ghostbusters Score.jpg
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".


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