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Ghostbusters
MEANRANK
79/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #836
- IMDb #532
- Google retired #1439
- Rotten Tomatoes #377
- Metacritic #850
- Letterboxd #1288
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #410
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #730
- Metacritic Audience #314
- Criticker #760
- Douban #1954
- Kinopoisk #348
- AlloCiné #552
- Trakt #411
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Lowest is Criticker on 60, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 95.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Three eccentric parapsychologists start a unique ghost removal service in New York City after losing their university funding. Using homemade nuclear-powered equipment, they find plenty of work as supernatural activity in the city skyrockets. Their investigation into a series of powerful disturbances leads them to an ancient Sumerian god preparing to cross over into our dimension, threatening to plunge the world into a new dark age.
Details
- Director
- Ivan Reitman
- Writers
- Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis
- Released
- 8 June 1984
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 105 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $30.0M
- Box office
- $296.6M
- Awards
- 0 wins, 4 nominations
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Awards & nominations
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| 57th Academy Awards 1985 | Best Visual Effects | Richard Edlund | Nominee |
| 57th Academy Awards 1985 | Best Visual Effects | John Bruno | Nominee |
| 57th Academy Awards 1985 | Best Visual Effects | Chuck Gaspar | Nominee |
| 57th Academy Awards 1985 | Best Visual Effects | Mark Vargo | Nominee |
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| Best Visual Effects | John Bruno | Nominee |
| Best Visual Effects | Chuck Gaspar | Nominee |
| Best Visual Effects | Mark Vargo | Nominee |