Ghostbusters (2016) on Netflix
PG-1320161h 56mActionComedyFantasy
Physicist Erin Gilbert partners with Abby Yates to investigate a haunting, and with engineer Jillian Holtzmann she opens a ghost-catching service where subway worker Patty Tolan joins them.
- Netflix3.2/5
- IMDb6.8/10260,609 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes74%
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Plot summary
Erin Gilbert is a Columbia professor in line for tenure when she learns that Abby Yates, her estranged friend and former co-author, has republished the book they wrote about their paranormal investigations. Erin agrees to help Abby and engineer Jillian Holtzmann look into a haunting at the Aldridge Mansion if Abby pulls the book. The vlog of their work goes viral and Columbia denies Erin tenure, while Abby and Holtzmann are dismissed from the Higgins Institute. The three set up headquarters above a Chinese restaurant and hire Kevin Beckman as a receptionist. Subway worker Patty Tolan meets a ghost in a terminal built under an old prison and brings the team her city knowledge and a repurposed hearse.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Ghostbusters (2016)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The first Ghostbusters trailer became the most disliked film trailer on YouTube by May 2016, with 280,000 likes against over one million dislikes.
- After Leslie Jones was targeted with racist and sexist abuse on Twitter, Twitter suspended the account of then-Breitbart writer Milo Yiannopoulos on July 19, 2016, allegedly for abusive behavior over the previous 48 hours.
- The film's IMDb page was hit by a coordinated effort to lower its rating before the film was even released.
- The climactic Times Square sequence used effects to transform the area into a mix of past decades, including neon signs for the defunct airlines Braniff International Airways and BOAC, and billboards for the 1976 film Taxi Driver.
- Ghost doubles on set were covered in light-emitting diodes so they would glow and provide lighting references for the effects crew.
- The film's subway scenes were shot on a soundstage because there is no Seward Street station in the New York City Subway.
- Emma Stone was asked to star in Ghostbusters but turned it down, partly because she did not want to commit to a franchise.
- Bill Murray said he took his cameo because of his friendships with Melissa McCarthy and Kate McKinnon, and because he felt it was important to support their project.
