Friday, July 3, 2009

Ghost Busters

Origin: U.S (Black Rhino, Columbia) 1984
Length: 107 minutes
Format: Metrocolor
Director: Ivan Reitman
Producer: Ivan Reitman
Screenplay: Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis
Photography: Laszlo Kovacs
Music: Tom Bailey, Elmer Bernstein, Alannah Currie, Joe Leeway, Brian O'Neal, Kevin O'Neal, Ray Parker Jr., Diane Warren
Cast: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Annie Potts, William Atherton, Ernie Hudson, David Margulies, Steven Tash, Jennifer Runyon, Slavitza Jovan, Michael Ensign, Alice Drummond, Jordan Charney
Oscar Nominations: Richard Edlund, John Bruno, Mark Vargo, Chuck Gaspar(special visual effects), Ray Parker Jr.(song)
Links: Ghost Busters Trailer, Ghost Busters Wiki

Big budget special effects and comedy are cleverly interwoven in this fantasy adventure written by two of the movie's stars, Harold Ramis and Dan Aykroyd. With Bill Murray they play a trio of paranormal "experts" - in reality, they are lazy, wisecracking ex-science professors, kicked off campus for their antics - who set up a ghost-busting business from an abandoned New York City firehouse. Their timing couldn't be better as the city is suddenly bursting with paranormal activity causing ghostly apparitions to run riot, terrorizing visitors to the library, ransacking an upscale hotel and even taking up residence in a skeptical Sigourney Weaver's refrigerator.

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