Ghostbusters

UPC: 043396091986

Studio: Columbia TriStar

MPAA Rating: PG   Contains:[Mild Violence, Adult Language, Watch With Your Kids, Slapstick Violence, Suitable for Teens]

Summary: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson star as a quartet of Manhattan-based "paranormal investigators". When their government grants run out, the former three go into business as The Ghostbusters, later hiring Hudson on. Armed with electronic paraphernalia, the team is spectacularly successful, ridding The Big Apple of dozens of ghoulies, ghosties and long-legged beasties. Tight-lipped bureaucrat William Atherton regards the Ghostbusters as a bunch of charlatans, but is forced to eat his words when New York is besieged by an army of unfriendly spirits, conjured up by a long-dead Babylonian demon and "channelled" through beautiful cellist Sigourney Weaver and nerdish Rick Moranis. The climax is a glorious sendup of every Godzilla movie ever made-and we daresay it cost more than a year's worth of Japanese monster flicks combined. Who'd ever dream that the chubby, cheery Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man would turn out to be the most malevolent threat ever faced by New York City? When the script for Ghostbusters was forged by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis, John Belushi was slated to play the Bill Murray role; Belushi's death in 1982 not only necessitated the hiring of Murray, but also an extensive rewrite. The most expensive comedy made up to 1984, Ghostbusters made money hand over fist, spawning not only a 1989 sequel but also two animated TV series (one of them partially based on an earlier live-action TV weekly, titled The Ghost Busters. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Category: Comedy

Awards: Best Picture - Musical or Comedy – null Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or – null Best Original Song – null Best Song – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Visual Effects – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Visual Effects – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Visual Effects – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Visual Effects – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Picture - Musical or Comedy – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Original Song – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or – Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Features: World premiere "live" video commentary by Ivan Reitman and Harold Ramis
Storyboards, split-screen compare
Production photos, conceptual drawings
Deleted scenes
1999 star featurette
DVD-ROM and weblink
SFX team documentary
SFX before & after (multi-angle)
Original featurette and trailers
Subtitled production notes
Digitally remastered
Language: English
Scene selections
Widescreen format
5.1 audio

Ghostbusters

Release Date: 01/01/1899

Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Cinemascope

Audio: 5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1

Runtime: 107 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English

Subtitles: English

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Side #1 --
0. Scene Selections
1. Start [2:46]
2. Shock the Nerd [3:51]
3. "Get Her!" [6:34]
4. Terminated [2:32]
5. Fixer-Upper [:58]
6. Spook Central [1:50]
7. Fried Eggs & Zuul [2:17]
8. "Bug-Eyes Thing" [:55]
9. The 1st Customer [2:09]
10. Checking Out Dana [4:35]
11. "We Got One!" [3:58]
12. "He Slimed Me." [2:17]
13. "Nice Shootin', Tex." [4:14]
14. Welcome Aboard [7:00]
15. E.P.A. Man [2:30]
16. Dogs Drag Dana [:08]
17. "Who Brought the Dog?" [3:28]
18. Terror on the Tavern [1:37]
19. Peter's Date With Zuul [1:10]
20. Keymaster [4:08]
21. Out of Biz [5:29]
22. Holding Cell [5:58]
23. Keeper Meets Master [2:56]
24. Biblical [1:08]
25. Working the Crowd [4:11]
26. Gozer [6:17]
27. Stay Puft Man [5:26]
28. Crossing Streams [3:04]

Matthew Doberman

Ghostbusters is an exuberant, fully realized blockbuster packed with plenty of choice moments for repeat viewing. The cast is pitch-perfect: Bill Murray's easygoing comic gifts are at their sarcastic best; Rick Moranis is hilariously pathetic; and Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis do a wonderful job as the dorky, science-minded members of the crew. Aykroyd and Ramis also wrote the one-liner-packed script; the wacky, scary subject matter made the film understandably popular with children, but there's also sophisticated humor which can only be appreciated by adults. Providing a blueprint for the many copycat summer hits to come, director Ivan Reitman impressively balances the laughs with action and horror. The special effects have held up well with time, though the soundtrack and its catch-phrase theme song may feel a little dated. ~ Matthew Doberman, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Joe Franklin  Actor 
Eda Reiss Merin  Actor 
Sam Moses  Actor 
Nancy Kelly  Actor 
Jordan Charney  Actor 
Roger Grimsby  Actor 
Jean Kasem  Actor 
Jason Reitman  Actor 
Frantz Turner  Actor 
Kymberly Herrin  Actor 
Ric Mancini  Actor 
John Rothman  Actor 
Larry Dilg  Actor 
Paddi Edwards  Actor 
Norman Matlock  Actor 
Jennifer Runyon  Actor 
James Hardie  Actor 
Christopher Wynkoop  Actor 
Joe Cirillo  Actor 
Stanley Grover  Actor 
Larry King  Actor 
John Ring  Actor 
Ruth Oliver  Actor 
Timothy Carhart  Actor 
Rhoda Gemignani  Actor 
Casey Kasem  Actor 
Frances E. Nealy  Actor 
Patty Dworkin  Actor 
Tommy Hollis  Actor 
Murray Rubin  Actor 
Winston May  Actor 
Reginald VelJohnson  Actor 
Tom McDermott  Actor 
Danny Stone  Actor 
Carol Henry  Actor 
Bill Couch  Actor 
Dan Aykroyd  Screenwriter 
Elmer Bernstein  Composer (Music Score) 
Harold Ramis  Screenwriter 
Ivan Reitman  Director 
Ivan Reitman  Producer 
Peter Torokvei  Screenwriter 
Bernie Brillstein  Executive Producer 
Bill Murray  Actor 
Dan Aykroyd  Actor 
Sigourney Weaver  Actor 
Harold Ramis  Actor 
Ernie Hudson  Actor 
Rick Moranis  Actor 
Annie Potts  Actor 
William Atherton  Actor 
David Margulies  Actor 
Steven Tash  Actor 
Slavitza Jovan  Actor 
Michael Ensign  Actor 
Alice Drummond  Actor 

Country: USA