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Ghostbusters (1984)
Director: Ivan Reitman
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Ghostbusters combines two of the most popular Hollywood products in recent years: National Lampoon/Saturday Night Live-style comedy and state-of-the-art special effects. But the story of a trio of incompetent 'experts' in the paranormal (Murray, Aykroyd and Ramis), who set up as ghostbusters after they are canned from their college sinecures, is less cynical a construction than it sounds. Reitman shows greater flair at controlling the anarchic comic rhythms of the Lampoon/SNL crowd than most of the directors who have attempted that hopeless task, and the effects are truly astonishing. Close Encounters meets Animal House, incidentally giving Murray's sleazily self-confident persona his best leading part to date.Author: MB
Cast & crew
Director: Ivan Reitman
Producer: Ivan Reitman
Cast: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Annie Potts, William Atherton full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 105 mins
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