Ghostbusters (1984 Dave’s Pick)
Episode description
The eleventh episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1984 features our producer David Rosen’s personal pick, Ivan Reitman’s Ghostbusters. Directed by Ivan Reitman from a script by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis and starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Sigourney Weaver, Rick Moranis, Ernie Hudson and Annie Potts, Ghostbusters was one of the biggest box-office hits of 1984 and became an enduring pop-culture phenomenon.
The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/ghostbusters-1984), Janet Maslin in the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/08/movies/film-ghostbusters-with-murray-and-aykroyd.html), and Joseph Gelmis in Newsday (https://www.newsday.com/entertainment/movies/ghostbusters-newsday-s-1984-review-of-original-film-1.11891998).
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