Classic Night at the Movies: Ghostbusters (1984)

Classic Night at the Movies presents Ghostbusters (1984) at El Raton Movie Theatre on Wednesday, October 28th at 7 pm. This free movie will be shown in honor of Paul Modrich, former Raton resident and 2015 Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry, whose work has been used in the development of new cancer treatments. In Paul’s honor, donations will be gratefully accepted for Miners Colfax Medical Center’s Auxiliary in conjunction with the Cancer Support Group. Costume Contest for Prizes! Classic Movie Night is sponsored by KRTN, El Raton Theatre and Raton Natural Gas.

Along with Paul Modrich, Tomas Lindahl and Aziz Sancar were named laureates for having mapped, at a molecular level, how cells repair damaged DNA and safeguard the genetic information. Their work has provided fundamental knowledge of how a living cell functions and is, for instance, used for the development of new cancer treatments.

Ghostbusters is a 1984 American supernatural comedy film,[2][3] directed and produced by Ivan Reitman and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. The film stars Bill Murray, Aykroyd, and Ramis as three eccentric parapsychologists in New York City who start a ghost-catching business. Sigourney Weaver and Rick Moranis co-star as a client and her neighbor. The Ghostbusters business booms after initial skepticism.

Ghostbusters was nominated for two Oscars for Best Visual Effects and Best Original Song. The American Film Institute ranked Ghostbusters 28th in its AFI’s 100 Years…100 Laughs list of film comedies.