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Born
in Czechoslovakia, producer/director Ivan Reitman was
raised in Canada by his concentration camp-survivor
parents. His first feature-length directorial project,
a 1970 adaptation of the notorious sub-rosa Victorian
sex novel My Secret Life, nearly landed him in jail.
He went on to direct, produce, edit and score the mildly
exploitive Foxy Lady (1971), then directed and produced
the horror semi-spoof Cannibal Girls (1973).
Reitman deftly combined fantasy and comedy with his
direction of the 1984 cash cow Ghostbusters. While he
seems to have an unerring Midas touch, not every Reitman
project has turned to box-office gold: After helping
to give Arnold Schwarzenegger a lighter, more amusing
image in Twins (1988) & Kindergarten Cop (1990),
he failed to do same with Sylvester Stallone in Stop!
Or My Mom Will Shoot (1991). After a few ups and downs
in the early 1990s, Reitman was way back up with Dave
(1993), an uncharacteristically low-key political satire.
Thus far, Ivan Reitman's number one unrealized project
is a live-action feature based on the cartoon character
Inspector Gadget.
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