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Ghostbusters (1984)
"Ghost Busters" (original title)

 -  Comedy | Family | Fantasy  -  8 June 1984 (USA)
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Three unemployed parapsychology professors set up shop as a unique ghost removal service.

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Three odd-ball scientists get kicked out of their cushy positions at a university in New York City where they studied the occult. They decide to set up shop in an old firehouse and become Ghostbusters, trapping pesky ghosts, spirits, haunts, and poltergeists for money. They wise-crack their way through the city, and stumble upon a gateway to another dimension, one which will release untold evil upon the city. The Ghostbusters are called on to save the Big Apple. Written by Greg Bole <bole@life.bio.sunysb.edu>

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Here To Save The World Again [re-release] See more »

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Comedy | Family | Fantasy

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PG | See all certifications »

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Release Date:

8 June 1984 (USA)  »

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Ghostbusters  »

Box Office

Budget:

$32,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$13,612,564 (USA) (8 June 1984)

Gross:

$6,723,388 (USA) (20 September 1985)
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(Metrocolor)

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2.35 : 1
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Trivia

Storyboarded but never shot included:
  • A scene with Egon testing the proton pack, which is charged by being plugged in. The pack melts the plug.
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Goofs

The Hittites/Babylonians/Sumerians are said, by Venkman, to have worshiped Gozer around 6000 BC. The Sumerians come into history around 4000 BC, although they could have existed for some time before then. The first Babylonian empire in Mesopotamia was from 1900 to 1600 BC, and the second one was from 626 to 539 BC. The Hittite empire was from 1600 to 717 BC. Considering that Gozer is a fictional god invented solely for this movie, and that the referenced civilizations all existed in the same general region, and the later civilizations' religions were influenced by those of the earlier civilizations, there is no reason that there couldn't be, in the context of this movie, a Gozer cult in the Hittite culture. See more »

Quotes

[first lines]
Dr. Peter Venkman: All right, I'm gonna turn over the next card. Concentrate... I want you to tell me what you think it is.
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Crazy Credits

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Referenced in Community: Introduction to Statistics (2009) See more »

Soundtracks

"DISCO INFERNO"
Written by Leroy Green and Ron Kersey
Produced by Ron Kersey
Performed by The Trammps
Courtesy of Atlantic Recording Corp. by arrangement with Warner Special Products
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Great marriage of comedy and spookiness
8 August 2002 | by (United States) – See all my reviews

Very rarely can you pull off a successful blend of two separate movie genres,but the makers of Ghostbusters were overwhelmingly so.On the one hand,you have the comedic charm of Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd,and on the other,a genuine ghostly spookiness that makes you want to hide under a blanket.I recently bought a copy and watched it for the first time in several years,and it's still just as fresh as it was in it's initial release in 1984.It has a great supporting cast for Murray and Aykroyd,including the always great Sigourney Weaver,Rick Moranis,Ernie Hudson,and Harold Ramis,who is just as talented behind the camera as he is in front of it.Watch it with your family,but keep an eye on younger children,as the spookiness may be more than they can handle. Great stuff.


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