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Ghostbusters (1984)
DVD (1 discs
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Blu-ray (1 discs
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Digital ✓
Genre: Comedy
Aspect Ratio: Wide
Sound: DD 5.1
Academy Awards:
2 Nominations
Synopsis
When the world stops taking you seriously, sometimes you just have to go into business for yourself. Ivan Reitman's comedy classic "Ghostbusters," written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis, stars Bill Murray, Aykroyd and Ramis as Drs. Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz and Egon Spengler, eccentric parapsychologists who are kicked out of Columbia University after a spooky encounter at the New York Public Library. Undeterred, they set up shop in an old firehouse as ghost exterminators, catching spooks with homemade proton packs. Their first paying job, trapping a gluttonous green ghost at a swanky hotel, makes them celebrities, and business booms, so they hire a fourth Ghostbuster (Ernie Hudson) and a wisecracking receptionist (Annie Potts). Meanwhile, Venkman is smitten with cellist Dana Barrett (Sigourney Weaver), who finds a portal to another dimension in her refrigerator, and before long she's possessed by a demon, as is her nerdy neighbor, Louis (Rick Moranis). When a smug government inspector (William Atherton) shuts down the Ghostbusters' containment system, unleashing a flood of spirits on the city, the team must face an ancient god bent on destroying New York from atop Dana's apartment building, which chooses to appear as a towering marshmallow man. Ray Parker Jr.'s title song was a smash hit, and it spawned a franchise.
Cast
Sigourney Weaver
Harold Ramis
Dan Aykroyd
Bill Murray
William Atherton
Ernie Hudson
Rick Moranis
Annie Potts
Director
Ivan Reitman
Awards & Nominations
- Oscar Nominee: Best Effects, Visual Effects
- Oscar Nominee: Best Music, Original Song
Keywords
Adventure
AFI Top 100 Funniest
Comedy
Fantasy
Ghosts
Monsters
Science Fiction
Technical Specifications
Audio Languages
English, French, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai
Subtitle Languages
Bahasa, Chinese-Simplified, Chinese-Traditional, English, French, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai
Special Features
- Audio commentary
- Deleted/extended scenes
- DVD-ROM content
- Featurettes/Behind-The-Scenes/Documentaries
- Interviews
- Photo gallery
- Harold Ramis/Ivan Reitman Live Video Commentary
- Storyboards
- Split-Scene Compare
- Conceptual Drawings
- 1999 Star Featurette
- Who You Gonna Call: A Ghostbusters Retrospective - Roundtable Discussion with Director Ivan Reitman and Dan Aykroyd
- Ghostbusters Music Video by Ray Parker, Jr.
- Ghostbusters Poster Gallery
- Alternate Takes