Ghostbusters
June 8, 1984 in theaters
Three disgraced parapsychology professors form a ghost-catching business in New York City, stumbling into a supernatural threat their academic careers always promised but never delivered. The 1984 film establishes the franchise's core dynamic — irreverent science, ensemble chemistry, and a New York City that takes the paranormal in stride.
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"I am the Keymaster."
DID YOU KNOW?
The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man costume weighed over 100 pounds and took two hours to put on.
THE VERDICT
Synthesized from published reviews
One of the great high-concept comedies -- a film that trusted its premise completely and surrounded it with performers who understood exactly how to inhabit a world just slightly stranger than the real one. Bill Murray is the film's engine, but the ensemble is the film's argument, and the direction keeps the tone locked in the space between farce and genuine threat. The Stay Puft sequence is the film's payoff and it earns it. A film that has aged into something close to a cultural institution.
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