...forget that this is the year that Apple Macintosh was born, forget the Sarajevo Winter Olympics, the US pulling out of Beirut, space shuttle Challenger landing for the first time at the Kennedy Space Center, Ronald Reagan calling for a ban on chemical weapons, Sweden winning the Eurovision song contest with 'digg-loo, diggi-ley, the Soviets (remember them?) boycotting the LA Olympics, Virgin Atlantic making its inaugural flight...forget all that, the only thing that 1984 citizens of the world cared about was, if there was a ghost in ya closet, under ya bed or flying around ya chandeliers...Who were they gonna call?!
With one sequel (Ghostbusters II) possibly another in 2012 (if you believe the press) and a non too shabby animated series (The Real Ghostbusters), Ghostbusters stands the test of time as The ghost story for a generation, then another generation and presumably, every generation until the lads (Murray, Ackroyd, Ramis & Reitman) decide that's enough.
Budget: £30,000,000
Gross: $291,632,124
Fun Fact: Slimer appears on behalf of The Real Ghostbusters in the animated, anti-drug, TV special Cartoon All-stars to the Rescue.
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