Groundhog Day (DVD)

- Introduction - Groundhog Day is one of my favourite movies and has been for many, many years. I first saw it when I was probably about 13 or 14 years old, so a few years after it was first released, as it dates from 1993. In a way its a typical Bill Murray movie, with plenty of his style of somewhat dark humour but what makes this particular movie different is the, at the time original, story. The story behind this movie is one that has always ...
...the acting cast) - Groundhog Day tells the story of a cable TV weatherman by the name of Phil Connors (played by Bill Murray), who is rather bored with the idea that he has to travel through to the sleepy town of Punxsutawney, where, every year, like in real life, they hold a ceremony where they bring out a Groundhog and see if it can spot its shadow, to determine if spring is around the corner. Now Phil has already covered this event for many years ...

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...here's my review on............... GROUNDHOG DAY ***ACTORS AND ACTRESSES*** Bill Murray - Ghostbusters 1 and 2, Lost In Translation Andie MacDowell - Muppets From Space, The Last Sign, Four Weddings and a Funeral Chris Elliot - Scary Movie 2, Osmosis Jones, There's Something About Mary ***CHARACTERS*** Phil Conners Played by actor Bill Murray. Phil is a self-centered, ego maniac who seems to be in love with himself. He has the ability to ...
...been stuck with covering the Groundhog festival in Punxsutawney for the fifth time and he hates it. He hates the town, the festival and anything to do it, but his job is to cover the story. Now why would a weatherman cover a story to do with the groundhog? Well in a nutshell, the groundhog is a small hedgehog looking creature, who legend has it can predict the weather. He comes out of his little box once a year and if he sees his shadow, then Punxsutawney ...

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Groundhog Day is a film I have meaning to watch for quite some time, as it is one of those films that is often referred too in other works and I just felt like I should have seen it. Finding it at a bargain price the other day then I snapped it up quickly. To be perfectly honest when I placed it in my DVD player I wasn't expecting that much, as my dad had already warned me that it was bad but I didn't quite expect it to be as bad as it was. Phil ...
...Pennsylvania to cover the annual Groundhog Day festivities. On this day every year crowds gather to see a small groundhog, also called Phil, supposedly tell it's masters when Spring will arrive. The locals and most other people for that matter love these festivities but Phil Connors is less than amused, in fact he dreads the very prospect of travelling to Punxsutawney every year. This year however things are about to get much worse than he could ...

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...am talking about, why its GROUNDHOG DAY!!! Bill Murray plays the lead role in the film, that of TV weatherman Phil Connors. Phil is your typical local television weatherman, getting a short slot each day for the weather bulletins, and occasionally getting sent out on special assignment to cover local stories that no one else wants to cover. In this instance, the event is in Gobblers Knob Park, Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, and is the local Groundhog ...
...around bringing out a groundhog from a cage, talking to it, and if it sees its shadow then we are in for 6 weeks more of winter. Phil has now been sent out to cover the Groundhog Day celebrations for the last few years and really hates it. He has an over inflated opinion of himself, and feels that the event is beneath his level of ability. He is not well liked by the crew that are sent out with him. These are Rita, the ever cheerful producer, played ...

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Groundhog day is a comedy and one of my all time favourite films. It stars Bill Murray as Phil Connors, a weatherman with Channel 9 Pittsburgh, and Andie MacDowell, who plays Rita his new producer. It starts off on February 1st, with them plus the cameraman travelling to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania "The home of the Groundhog" for the Annual Groundhog day celebrations, which is the next day, 2nd Feb. The Groundhog, its believed, is supposed to predict ...
...shadow. The groundhog looks like a beaver by the way and rather cute. He absolutely hates going to Punxsutawney to cover this festival and he makes his feelings about this pretty clear, he actually says to the guest house owner that his chances of departure today are 100% because there is no way he wants to spend a minute more than he has to in this backwater, as he calls it. On there way out of town, after filming the Groundhog being lifted out ...

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...festival of Punxsutawney Phil, the groundhog who predicts the forthcoming weather. He is woken by the radio alarm playing Sonny and Chers song 'I've got you babe', with the announcer stating it's 'groundhog day' After covering the rather bizarre celebration he and his crew, Rita, (played by Andie MacDowell) and Larry the cameraman, (played by Chris Elliot), all become trapped in the town when a rather severe snow storm blocks the roads. Things ...
...February the 2nd and it's Groundhog day. This is where the confusion starts for Phil as he seems to be trapped in a loophole, reliving the same day over and over again, but everyone else around him are adamant that groundhog day is then and has not passed. As each day ends, each morning Phil is woken again by the same song and the same dj's stating 'it's groundhog day'… With depression setting in and attempts of suicide failing he soon succumbs ...

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...the idea of having a Groundhog Day. Billy Murray and Andie McDowell share the billing in this romantic comedy. Both of them work for the same TV news company. Murray is the News Correspondent, and a surly one at that. He's dismissive, abrupt, uncaring, rude and cold character, who regularly disrespects his crew. Having been sent to cover the event that supposedly heralds the start of spring, he's his usual abrasive self. Phil the Groundhog refuses ...
...weather is there for a while yet, and so the crew return to their hotel to rest before they attempt the journey home through a blizzard. They don't make the trip and have to stay an extra night, and this is where Murray's nightmare comes into being. He wakes up and goes through exactly the same sequence of events as the day before. He survives this day confused, goes to bed, wakes up and goes through exactly the the same sequence of events as the ...

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...new batch of comic actors. Groundhog day was one of his best in my opinion, an amiable comedy with a high charm factor, relying upon pure comdey rather than the current crop of lavatorial humour which Hollywood seems insistent upon throwing at us. As a result, thisis a movie which should have pretty much universal appeal, and for me, it certainly does. What would you do if everyday you woke up to find the same things being replayed over and over ...
...Punxsutawney, Philadelphia to cover the Groundhog ay Festival. Phil is grinch, hating all this kind of thing and when it turns out that a blizzard is going to force them to stay in thetown one more night, he is naturally none too pleased. Even less so when he wakes up the next morning to find that it is Groundhog Day again and that he is stuck in a time loop which means that every morning will be the same - he will wake up to the sound of "I Got ...

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...review on the 1993 movie Groundhog Day starring the brilliant Bill Murray and Andi Mc Dowell. It's the story of a TV weatherman/ journalist Phil Connors (Bill Murray) who - for the fifth year in a row has to cover the big event Ground Hog Day in Pennsylvania which he hates doing. However once he does his reporting he wants to get the hell out of there but due to very bad weather they must stay the night in the town. However - the next morning ...
...had to go through another groundhog day, and another and another and another, He didn't know how long this would last. Every day he spend doing the ground hog he knew what was going to happen so he tried to change it - some for personal fun and some for the kindness of his heart. He also tried killing himself but he woke up the next morning as usual. How was he going to get out of this unending day he hated so much? What I think: I think this ...

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...that it's February 2nd and Groundhog Day! Connor is staying in a guesthouse at Gobbler's Knob with the aim of providing coverage for his Television station of a traditional ceremony in which the groundhog is used to predict when winter is going to be over. Connors understandably isn't exactly thrilled at this prospect and just wants to go home and goes to bed that night with that thought in mind. Unfortunately for Connors however, on awakening ...
...is six 'o' clock on the second and the radio...is playing the same broadcast. At first disbelieving Connors come to realise that he is re-living the same day. Then it happens again and again. To begin with Connors uses this to his advantage, he discovers he can learn things about women and then use it to portray himself in a better light and hence get them into bed. He eats like here is no tomorrow as indeed for him, there is not but getting no satisfaction ...

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...visits Pennsylvania to cover the Groundhog Day ceremony but wakes up one day to find himself endlessly reliving the same day over and over again. ----------------------- ~ Detailed synopsis ~ ----------------------- Phil Connors was getting really bored with his job. He’d covered the Groundhog Day ceremony for the past five years and he’d just heard that he had to do it all over again. He really did not want to cover this story this ...
...it will release him from Groundhog Day. ----------------- ~ Sarah’s view ~ ----------------- I first saw this film years ago on video. At first I thought the film was pretty rubbish. The word ‘repetitive’ certainly came to mind. However I decided to stick the film out and was thoroughly pleased I did do. By the end of the film I’d changed my mind about it completely. It was actually really original and funny. If you’ve ...

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...town of Punxsutawny for the Groundhog Festival, accompanied by a sickeningly cute Andie McDowell and his snidey cameraman, played by Chris Elliot. A freak blizzard hits the town, and the next morning Phil wakes up to find everything is strangely familiar...he quickly realises that he is trapped in the town, doomed to live the same day over and over again. Connors initially relishes the greedy prospects of such a situation, but soon realises what ...
...dark script, each repetition of Groundhog Day is fresh and milked for it's full comic potential. Murray stands in the centre of all this, spitting acidic one-liners at the clueless inhabitants of Punxsutawney, before finally warming into an equally charming local hero. The ambivalence of Phil's character is underlying, giving the film a darker tone - he is wreckless with the lives of the townsfolk, and initially would rather kill himself than be ...

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A groundhog is a beaver by another name. Bill Murray wakes up in a recurring nightmare whereby he has to introduce a beaver to his local community everyday so that it can predict the coming of spring. Okay, I admit it, I wrote beaver into the headline just to attract you here! Whilst you're here though, you might as well read about one of the gems of Bill Murray's career. Now, I'll be honest - I'm a fan of his. Ever since he charmed my pants off ...
...come my way. Groundhog Day is a cut above much of the dross comedy Hollywood pumps out and it even manages to carry Andie MacDowell and stil turn in a well above average performance from all of the players. As usual, Murray is brilliant. He shines like a comic beacon, playing the 'making the best of the circumstances' role with his usual aplomb. If you're after a light-hearted Christmas comedy with a great cast, and by a great director (Ivan Reitman ...

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...Pennsylvania he covers the annual groundhog festival. The groundhog can supposedly predict the coming of an early spring, either by seeing or not seeing a shadow. Phil hates covering the groundhog festival and feels that it is beneath him, he crew Larry the cameraman and Rita the producer do not seem to like him much either. A blizzard prevents them all from leaving Punxsutawney and Phil wakes up the next day to discover it's Groundhog Day again. ...
...the next morning, it's still Groundhog Day, and the next day and the next day and the next day. Phil is the only person who realises the day is being repeated and he discovers what can be achieved in just one day. Characters ======== Phil Connors - Bill Murray Rita - Andie McDowell Larry - Chris Elliott Bill Murray gives and excellent performance as the prim Donna weatherman and we are able to watch as Phil goes on his journey of self discovery ...

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I thought that Groundhog Day was a very original film - so if you are looking for originality, this is the one. As far as humour is concerned, Bill Murray is perfect for the role, being a "prima donna" weatherman who is too in love with himself to see that he is in a "dead end" job going no-where, and everyone hates him. The Film is, in many ways, like the classical shakesphere idea where the main character suffers the pain of self-realisation before ...
...Going to the Annual Groundhog festival in Bill Murray’s case began a long process of ultimate salvation. He loathes this day with a passion due to his egotistic and selfish personality, and the very idea of him presenting an open air weather forecast, orchestrated not by himself but by a Groundhog (due to annual tradition, if the groundhog sees a shadow then the area is supposed to have 5 more weeks of winter, if the groundhog sees no shadow, ...

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