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Genres:
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Comedy /
Fantasy /
Romance
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Release:
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Director:
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Harold Ramis
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Actors:
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Chris Elliott,
Ken Hudson Campbell,
Robin Duke,
Carol Bivins,
Les Podewell,
Rod Sell,
Bill Murray,
Andie MacDowell,
Stephen Tobolowsky,
Brian Doyle-Murray,
Marita Geraghty,
Angela Paton,
Rick Ducommun,
Rick Overton,
Willie Garson
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Duration:
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97 min.
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Rating:
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(8.1/10)79.5
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Plot Summary:
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A weather cover shackles is reluctantly sent to cover a news about a climate ailing forecasting "rat" (as he calls it). This is his fourth year on the tale, and he makes no effort to his frustration. On awaking the 'following' broad daylight he discovers that it's Groundhog Day again, and again, and again. Beginning he uses this to his upper hand, then comes the realisation that he is info to waste the residue of eternity in the unchanging place, seeing the same people do the at any rate thing EVERY date.
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Funny, sweet, unexpectedly profound!
This is a great film to watch with friends so you can discuss the questions it raises over a beer afterwards ... Groundhog day is a gentle romantic comedy but deals with unexpectedly big issues such as confronting eternity, finding meaning in daily drudgery and how to take control of your own destiny.
Bill Murray finds himself in a wierd timewarp situation (using a device that is surprisingly convincing), that means he relives one day over and over again. The scope of his activities throughout the day is quite astonishing and very imaginative. It makes you think of the infinite aspects that make up a single experience and particularly draws attention to the many different stories imminent within a single situation.
I felt Bill Murray's situation is analagous to a gene...
Groundhog Day
Bill Murray is the weatherman forced to live the worst day of his life over, and over... and over. A funny and well conceived star vehicle, worthy of this cult actor's talents
Murray has too rarely appeared in films worthy of his talent. Here his old sparring partner Ramis, as director and co-writer, gives him a part tailored for his ultra-cynical persona.
It is a classic tale of redemption, wrapped up in a brilliantly simple narrative idea. Murray is jaded weather man Phil Connors who is yet again forced to report from the annual Groundhog Day festivities in Punxsatawney. Once there he finds himself reliving, seemingly ad infinitum, the same drab February 2nd. It is never explained why this Sisyphean punishment is inflicted on Connors, but it slowly dawns on...
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