Ivan Reitman was undeniably one of the greatest comedy filmmakers of all time, responsible for some of the most iconic, wackiest movies to hit screens. Reitman, who passed away on February 12, 2022, was thoroughly multitalented, influencing the ways movies were made as a writer, producer, and director. His legacy lives on through his films and the actors and filmmakers he inspired.
Initially intending to be a composer and musician, Reitman found a love for movie-making as he graduated from college in Canada. He started out as a contributor on Toronto’s CITY-TV station, soon moving on to produce horror films, and subsequently National Lampoon’s Animal House. Through his career, Reitman found a crew of favorite actors whom he helped develop into comedy stars — these actors famously include Bill Murray, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Eugene Levy. His legacy of humor and filmmaking lives on through his children, Jason, director of comedies Ghostbusters: Afterlife andJuno, and Catherine, star of CBC’s Workin’ Moms.
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Though Reitman specialized in comedy, his body of work incorporates a wide variety of genres, from romance and action to horror and science fiction. Hitting his heyday in the 1980s, Reitman directed many famous films, including Twins, Kindergarten Cop, and Ghostbusters. Here is every movie Ivan Reitman directed ranked from worst to best.
Robin Williams and Billy Crystal star in Father’s Day, a movie that falls short of its intended genre: comedy. When an old girlfriend asks both Williams and Crystal, playing a hippie and lawyer respectively, to find her missing son, both men work together to determine which of them is the teenager’s real father.
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