Murray left acting for four years following the release of "Ghostbusters". He described the film's success as a phenomenon that would forever be his biggest accomplishment and, compounded by the failure of his personal project "The Razor's Edge", he felt "radioactive". Murray avoided central roles in films until the 1988 Christmas comedy film "Scrooged", which used the tagline that Murray was "back among the ghosts". In a 1989 interview, Reitman said he was upset at the "little respect" he felt "Ghostbusters" received and his work was not taken seriously, believing many dismissed it as just "another action-comedy".