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  • Reitman working on Baywatch comedy - 11 March 2011
    -Ghostbusters director Ivan Reitman is working on a plan to turn the Baywatch franchise into a new movie comedy.- -The movie mogul has revealed there's a "classical idea" on the table to bring back the surf soap TV series for a new generation and he's just waiting for


  • Reitman waiting on Murray for Ghostbusters 3 - 11 January 2011
    -Director Ivan Reitman is waiting on Bill Murray's approval to begin work on the new Ghostbusters sequel, because he has to win over the Hollywood actor before they can even think about filming.- -The filmmaker is ready to step behind the camera once more to shoot the


  • Reitman completes Ghostbusters line-up - 15 January 2010
    -Director Ivan Reitman has confirmed he will be leading the Ghostbusters back to the big screen when the upcoming sequel starts shooting this year (10).- -Original stars Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson are returning to film a third movie - 21 y

Ivan Reitman - what members say


  • Kindergarten Cop
  • Kindergarten Cop review by A customer from GLASGOW
    Rated - 4.0 stars TOP MOVIE !!! 31 August 2005
    ...Arnold Schwarzenegger sheds his action image in Ivan Reitman's police comedy Kindergarten Cop, where he plays an undercover cop teaching a class of hyperactive six-year-old...   Read customer review
  • No Strings Attached
  • No Strings Attached review by CultPod from
    Rated - 1.5 stars Bland, Clichéd and Disappointing. 8 December 2012
    ...Considering this was Directed by Ivan Reitman (Ghostbusters, Evolution) and stars the brilliant Natalie Portman, this third-rate, cliché ridden digestive biscuit of a Rom-C...   Read customer review

Ivan Reitman - filmography


  • Hitchcock - Blu-ray (2012)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Helen Mirren,  Scarlett Johansson
    Director: Sacha Gervasi
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Anthony Hopkins plays the legendary director in this biopic that chronicles the personal and professional relationship between Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville (Helen Mirren) during the making of his 1960 classic 'Psycho'. It's 1959 and, increasingly worried about his relevance, Hitchcock ..read more »
    0.5 stars out of 5 10% from 1 member
    Due for release on 16th August 2013
  • No Strings Attached on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Natalie Portman,  Ashton Kutcher,  Cary Elwes
    Director: Ivan Reitman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Emma is a busy doctor who sets up a seemingly perfect arrangement when she offers her best friend Adam a relationship with one rule: No Strings Attached. But when a fling becomes a thing, can sex friends stay best friends?
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 27,238 members
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  • No Strings Attached - Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Natalie Portman,  Lake Bell,  Kevin Kline
    Director: Ivan Reitman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Romantic comedy starring Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher. When long-time friends Emma (Portman) and Adam (Kutcher) decide to add a physical dimension to their relationship and move into 'friends with benefits' territory, they agree to keep things strictly casual and on a 'no strings' basis. But ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 7,647 members
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  • Ghostbusters 3 (2010)
    Starring: Harold Ramis,  Bill Murray,  Dan Aykroyd
    Director: Ivan Reitman
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    When the University downsized the para-psychology department, Doctors Venkman (Bill Murray), Stantz (Dan Aykroyd) and Spengler (Harold Ramis) make the leap from scientist to Ghostbusters, investigators and exterminators of paranormal pests! The bewitching Dana Barrett (Sigourney Weaver) discovers ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 151 members
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  • Chloe - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Liam Neeson,  Max Thieriot,  Mishu Vellani
    Director: Atom Egoyan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Erotic psychodrama directed by Atom Egoyan, based on Anne Fontaine's 2003 film 'Nathalie'. Amanda Seyfried stars as Chloe, a young prostitute who is hired by gynaecologist Catherine (Julianne Moore) to test the loyalty of her husband David (Liam Neeson), whom she suspects of infidelity. Desire and ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 3,218 members
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  • My Super Ex-Girlfriend on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Uma Thurman,  Rainn Wilson,  Anna Faris
    Director: Ivan Reitman
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Comedy starring Uma Thurman and Luke Wilson. When Matt Saunders (Wilson) meets Jenny Johnson (Thurman), he thinks he's found the perfect girl. However, he decides to break things off with her when she becomes too needy, controlling, and jealous. Jenny doesn't take it well and decides to get back at ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 44,360 members
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  • Evolution on DVD (2001)
    Starring: David Duchovny,  Michael Bower,  Ted Levine
    Director: Ivan Reitman
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Comedy sci-fi spoof from 'Ghostbusters' director Ivan Reitman. A meteorite crashes in the Arizona desert, and when scientists Ira Kane (David Duchovny) and Harry Block (Orlando Jones) arrive to investigate, they discover it to be crammed with single-cell alien lifeforms which are rapidly evolving ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 8,091 members
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  • Six Days, Seven Nights on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Harrison Ford,  David Schwimmer,  Anne Heche
    Director: Ivan Reitman
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Quinn Harris (Harrison Ford) is a cranky pilot ferrying merchandise around a cluster of tropical islands. Although he despises the tourists who swarm onto the islands, he agrees to act as an air-taxi for New Yorker Robin Monroe (Anne Heche), who urgently needs to get to Tahiti. When a storm forces ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 6,030 members
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  • Private Parts on DVD (1997)
    Starring: John Stamos,  Mary McCormack,  Iggy Pop
    Director: Betty Thomas
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Howard Stern, American talk show host and 'shock jock', plays himself in this account of his rags-to-riches life story. Growing up as a geeky Jew in a tough black neighbourhood, Stern opts for performance as an escape from his overpowering parents. After putting on obscene puppet shows, he ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 1,910 member
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  • Fathers' Day on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Billy Crystal,  Nastassja Kinski,  Robin Williams
    Director: Ivan Reitman
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Married attorney Jack Lawrence (Billy Crystal) and unsuccessful writer Dale Putney (Robin Williams) each had a relationship with Colette (Nastassja Kinski) seventeen years ago. Colette, now married, tells both Jack and Dale that she thinks they might be the real father of her son, Scott (Charlie ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 1,256 member
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  • Space Jam on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Danny De Vito,  Tweety Pie,  Sylvester
    Director: Joe Pytka
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Watch now: Unavailable
    NBA star Michael Jordan teams up with Bugs Bunny and the rest of his pals in a basketball game that is more important than any that has ever come before - the fate of the Earth hangs on the result. The problem has arisen because an invading alien race, the Nerclucks, want to kidnap Bugs and the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 3,973 members
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  • Junior on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Pamela Reed,  Emma Thompson,  Danny De Vito
    Director: Ivan Reitman
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Dr Hesse (Arnold Schwarzenegger) has perfected the technology to impregnate a man, and has a willing volunteer in line to test it - himself. Dr Arbogast (Danny DeVito), his assistant, strives to keep the project under wraps as his mentor begins to 'show', whilst the unwitting 'father' of the child (..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 7,788 members
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  • Dave on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Ben Kingsley,  Ving Rhames,  Sigourney Weaver
    Director: Ivan Reitman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    When a cynical US President suffers a near fatal heart attack while in the arms of his mistress, a small town lookalike, the genial Dave (Kevin Kline), is called upon to act as his double. The doppelganger brings an innocent vitality to his new job, and begins to call the shots, much to the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 4,372 members
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  • Kindergarten Cop on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger,  Penelope Ann Miller,  Linda Hunt
    Director: Ivan Reitman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    While on the trail of a psychopath, tough L.A. cop John Kimble (Arnold Schwarzenegger) goes undercover as a kindergarten teacher. He soon discovers that controlling a class of twenty-three small children may be his toughest assignment yet, but gradually earns the respect both of his pupils and an ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 10,316 members
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  • Ghostbusters II on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Bill Murray,  Dan Aykroyd,  Sigourney Weaver
    Director: Ivan Reitman
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Watch now: Unavailable
    The boys in the boiler suits have hit harder times having been sued by municipal authorities, and they are now reduced to doing the circuit of kiddies parties. However, it turns out that there is a physical embodiment of evil slurping around beneath the city, and the men find themselves re-employed ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 18,863 members
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  • Twins on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Marsha,  Kelly Preston,  Danny De Vito
    Director: Ivan Reitman
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger play twins (the result of a government genetic experiment) separated at birth. While one is the 'perfect' human specimen, the other is a pint-sized car-thief. When reunited many years later, they both teach each other a thing or two as they set out to find ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 11,580 members
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  • Legal Eagles on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Terence Stamp,  Daryl Hannah,  Brian Dennehy
    Director: Ivan Reitman
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A 1986 legal thriller written and directed by Ivan Reitman, and starring Robert Redford, Debra Winger, and Daryl Hannah. An Assistant District Attorney, Tom Logan is on his way to becoming the new District Attorney. Laura Kelly, an attorney who is representing Chelsea Deardon. Chelsea is accused of ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 595 members
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  • The Real Ghostbusters - Adventures In Sl... on DVD (1986)
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Four animated escapades for the Real Ghostbusters. In 'Adventures in Slime and Space' Egon's 'ghost net' creates havoc when it slices Slimer into a multitude of smaller facsimiles. 'Ghostbusted' sees the team try their hand at crimebusting after wiping out all of the ghosts in the city, but their ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 217 members
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  • Ghostbusters on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Ernie Hudson,  Annie Potts,  Bill Murray
    Director: Ivan Reitman
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson star as a quartet of Manhattan-based paranormal investigators. When their government grants run out, the former three go into business as The Ghostbusters, later hiring Hudson on. Armed with electronic paraphernalia, the team is spectacularly ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 42,270 members
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  • Ghostbusters - Blu-ray (1984)
    Starring: Bill Murray,  Dan Aykroyd,  Sigourney Weaver
    Director: Ivan Reitman
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Watch now: Unavailable
    When Dr. Peter Venkman (Bill Murrary) and his Columbia University colleagues (Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson) are kicked out of their prestigious academic posts, they start a private practice as professional ghost-catchers. Although the three parascientists are idle for awhile, their ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 81% from 3,533 members
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  • Stripes on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Warren Oates,  John Candy,  P.J. Soles
    Director: Ivan Reitman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    John Winger (Bill Murray) is a loser; he literally loses everything that matters to him - his car, apartment and girlfriend - on the same day. Along with his equally unsuccessful best friend, Russell Zitsky (Harold Ramis), John decides to enrol in the US Army, but discovers that his unit is little ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 3,118 members
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  • Meatballs (1979)
    Starring: Kate Lynch,  Harvey Atkin,  Bill Murray
    Director: Ivan Reitman
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Bill Murray is a camp counsellor whose aim is to teach the teenage fifth grade youngsters about life and its sexuality during summer camp.
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 341 members
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  • National Lampoon's Animal House on DVD (1979)
    Starring: John Belushi,  Kerwin Mathews,  John Vernon
    Director: John Landis
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    John Landis' raucous college comedy, set in the early Sixties, now has semi-cult status. Delta House is the fraternity that will take anyone no other club wants as a member and makes sure nothing comes in the way of their partying. The college dean (John Vernon) is desperate to close Delta House ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 5,654 members
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  • Cannibal Girls on DVD (1972)
    Starring: Eugene Levy,  Andrea Martin,  Ronald Ulrich
    Director: Ivan Reitman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A young couple spends the night in a restaurant only to find out that it is occupied by three women who hunger for human flesh in this this horror film from the director of classic comedy, Ivan Reitman (Ghostbusters, Stripes, Meatballs). This 1973 long sought-after cult movie was known for a "..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 72 members
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Ivan Reitman facts

5 most recent films

Hitchcock - 3.5 stars
Hitchcock - Blu-ray - 0.5 stars
No Strings Attached - 3.5 stars
No Strings Attached - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Ghostbusters 3 - 4.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Ghostbusters - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Ghostbusters 3 - 4.0 stars
Ghostbusters - 4.0 stars
Space Jam - 3.5 stars
Dave - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Hitchcock - Blu-ray - 0.5 stars
Cannibal Girls - 2.5 stars
Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot - 2.5 stars
Junior - 2.5 stars
Heavy Metal - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Bill Murray - 13 times - show films
Harold Ramis - 11 times - show films
Sigourney Weaver - 10 times - show films
Dan Aykroyd - 10 times - show films
Ernie Hudson - 8 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Sacha Gervasi - 2 times - show films
Joe Pytka - 1 times - show films
Betty Thomas - 1 times - show films
Gerald Potterton - 1 times - show films
John Landis - 1 times - show films