14 Movies Directed by Ivan Reitman

Cannibal Girls

Cannibal Girls

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1973-04-01

Languages:

English

Countries:

Canada

Runtime:

84 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

4.5 (571 Reviews)

Director:

Ivan Reitman

Genres:

ComedyHorror

Cast:

Writer:

Daniel Goldberg (story)

Ivan Reitman (story)

Robert Sandler

Fullplot:

A young couple spend the night in a restaurant, only to find out that it is haunted by three dead women who hunger for human flesh.

Meatballs

Meatballs

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1979-06-29

Languages:

English

Countries:

Canada

Runtime:

94 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

6.2 (13982 Reviews)

Director:

Ivan Reitman

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Len Blum

Daniel Goldberg

Janis Allen

Harold Ramis

Fullplot:

Summer Camp highjinks centered around a camp counselor with a wacky sense of humor. He tries to help the campers have a good time. One camper named Rudy poses a particular challenge as he has a self-esteem problem

Ghostbusters

Ghostbusters

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1984-06-08

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

105 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (238786 Reviews)

Director:

Ivan Reitman

Fullplot:

Three odd-ball scientists get kicked out of their cushy positions at a university in New York City where they studied the occult. They decide to set up shop in an old firehouse and become Ghostbusters, trapping pesky ghosts, spirits, haunts, and poltergeists for money. They wise-crack their way through the city, and stumble upon a gateway to another dimension, one which will release untold evil upon the city. The Ghostbusters are called on to save the Big Apple.

Legal Eagles

Legal Eagles

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1986-06-20

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

116 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

5.9 (7458 Reviews)

Director:

Ivan Reitman

Cast:

Writer:

Ivan Reitman (story)

Jim Cash (story)

Jack Epps Jr. (story)

Jim Cash (screenplay)

Jack Epps Jr. (screenplay)

Fullplot:

District Attorney Tom Logan is set for higher office, at least until he becomes involved with defence lawyer Laura Kelly and her unpredictable client Chelsea Deardon. It seems the least of Chelsea's crimes is the theft of a very valuable painting, but as the women persuade Logan to investigate further and to cut some official corners, a much more sinister scenario starts to emerge.

Twins

Twins

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1988-12-09

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

107 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

(80151 Reviews)

Director:

Ivan Reitman

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

William Davies

William Osborne

Timothy Harris

Herschel Weingrod

Fullplot:

Julius and Vincent Benedict are the results of an experiment that would allow for the perfect child. Julius was planned and grows to athletic proportions. Vincent is an accident and is somewhat smaller in stature. Vincent is placed in an orphanage while Julius is taken to a South Seas island and raised by philosophers. Vincent becomes the ultimate lowlife and is about to be killed by loan sharks when Julius discovers that he has a brother and begins looking for him.

Ghostbusters II

Ghostbusters II

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1989-06-16

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

108 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

6.5 (123004 Reviews)

Director:

Ivan Reitman

Cast:

Writer:

Dan Aykroyd (characters)

Harold Ramis (characters)

Harold Ramis

Dan Aykroyd

Fullplot:

Five years after the events of the first film, the Ghostbusters have been plagued by lawsuits and court orders, and their once-lucrative business is bankrupt. However, when Dana begins to have ghost problems again, the boys come out of retirement only to be promptly arrested. The Ghostbusters discover that New York is once again headed for supernatural doom, with a river of ectoplasmic slime bubbling beneath the city and an ancient sorcerer attempting to possess Dana's baby and be born anew. Can the Ghostbusters quell the negative emotions feeding the otherworldly threat and stop the world from being slimed?

Kindergarten Cop

Kindergarten Cop

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1990-12-21

Languages:

English, Spanish

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

111 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

(99874 Reviews)

Director:

Ivan Reitman

Cast:

Writer:

Murray Salem (story)

Murray Salem (screenplay)

Herschel Weingrod (screenplay)

Timothy Harris (screenplay)

Fullplot:

John Kimble is a tough city cop who's been on the trail of drug dealer Cullen Crisp for years. He finally tracks Crisp down but it seems the only person that can testify against him is his ex-wife. The problem is she's disappeared and all Kimble knows is the name of the school in Oregon where her son attends. When things don't quite go to plan, Kimble finds he has to go undercover on his toughest assignment yet - Kindergarten teacher!

Dave

Dave

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1993-05-07

Languages:

English, Spanish

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

110 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (39012 Reviews)

Director:

Ivan Reitman

Fullplot:

Bill Mitchell is the philandering and distant President of the United States. Dave Kovic is a sweet-natured and caring Temp Agency operator, who by a staggering coincidence looks exactly like the President. As such, when Mitchell wants to escape an official luncheon, the Secret Service hires Dave to stand in for him. Unfortunately, Mitchell suffers a severe stroke whilst having sex with one of his aides, and Dave finds himself stuck in the role indefinitely. The corrupt and manipulative Chief of Staff, Bob Alexander, plans to use Dave to elevate himself to the White House - but unfortunately, he doesn't count on Dave enjoying himself in office, using his luck to make the country a better place, and falling in love with the beautiful First Lady...

Junior

Junior

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1994-11-23

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

109 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

4.5 (50300 Reviews)

Director:

Ivan Reitman

Fullplot:

Alex Hesse and Larry Arbogast are working on a new drug which will reduce the chances of a woman's body rejecting an embryo and thus causing a miscarriage. When their research funding is withdrawn, and human experimentation is denied to them, they decide to test the drug by breifly impregnating Hesse. Hesse however becomes attached to "his" unborn baby.

Fathers' Day

Fathers' Day

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1997-05-09

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

98 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

5.1 (11473 Reviews)

Director:

Ivan Reitman

Cast:

Writer:

Francis Veber (film Les Compères)

Lowell Ganz (screenplay)

Babaloo Mandel (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Jack Lawrence is a smart aleck lawyer who is one day visited by an ex-girlfriend who tells him her kid was his. Enter Dale Putley, a depressed goofball who is also a writer, meets with the same ex-girlfriend who tells him her kid is his. One day Jack and Dale meet and discover what had happened: they've been told the same story and now there's a question of who the real father is. They learn their son is following a rock band called Sugar Ray around. So Jack and Dale hit the road to Sacramento and find their drunk, love-struck son. Soon after they bring him back to their hotel room, their son escapes and Jack and Dale must use teamwork to find him again, bring him home, and find out which one of them is the real father.

Six Days Seven Nights

Six Days Seven Nights

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1998-06-12

Languages:

English, German

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

98 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

5.7 (57483 Reviews)

Director:

Ivan Reitman

Fullplot:

Taking a romantic tropical island week off with her boyfriend, an ambitious, decisive New York girl agrees to help her magazine out by covering a story on a neighboring island. The only plane available is piloted by a laid-back heavy drinker with whom she shares a mutual dislike. But she has no choice and he can't refuse the money. When the plane crash-lands on an uninhabited island with little chance of rescue they both wish they had made other arrangements - at least to start with.

My Super Ex-Girlfriend

My Super Ex-Girlfriend

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2006-07-21

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

95 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

5.1 (51457 Reviews)

Director:

Ivan Reitman

Fullplot:

In New York, when the shy and lonely project manager of a design firm Matt Saunders meets Jenny Johnson in the subway, he invites her to date and have dinner with him. Jenny immediately falls in love for him, they have sex and she discloses her true identity to him, telling that she is the powerful superhero G-Girl. After meeting his co-worker and friend Hannah Lewis, the needy Jenny becomes jealous, controlling and manipulative, and Matt follows the advice of his best friend Vaughn Haige and dumps her, breaking her heart. Jenny turns Matt's life into hell, while he has a romance with Hannah. However, the archenemy of G-Girl and former high school sweetheart of Jenny, Professor Bedlam, proposes Matt to lure Jenny to strip her superpowers.

No Strings Attached

No Strings Attached

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2011-01-21

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

108 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.2 (152993 Reviews)

Director:

Ivan Reitman

Cast:

Writer:

Elizabeth Meriwether (screenplay)

Michael Samonek (story)

Elizabeth Meriwether (story)

Fullplot:

Occasionally in the 15 years since summer camp, Adam and Emma cross paths. When he discovers that an ex-girlfriend is living with his dad, he gets drunk, calls every woman in his cell phone contact list, and ends up passed out naked in her living room. By this time, she's a medical resident in L.A. and he's a gopher on a "Glee"-like TV series, hoping to be a writer. She guards her emotions (calling her father's funeral "a thing"), so after a quick shag in the moments she has before leaving for the hospital, she asks if he wants a no-strings-attached, sex-only relationship, without romance or complications. A prescription for fun or for disaster?

Draft Day

Draft Day

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2014-04-11

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

110 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (33266 Reviews)

Director:

Ivan Reitman

Genres:

DramaSport

Fullplot:

It's draft day in the NFL and as general manager of the Cleveland Browns, Sonny is forced to come up with a big move. After trading for the number one pick, Sonny has to choose between a lower-ranked linebacker with a questionable past or a celebrated quarterback with a questionable future. All the while, Sonny is walking in the footsteps of his father and personal complications force their way to the surface.

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