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Summary: Again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again
Review: The only thing I have to say about this movie when I saw it the first and ONLY time is this... It was funny, and it was good, all the way up until it was Feb. 2 for the third time. It must've been Feb. 2 for about 30 days or so. It got old after a while. When I saw it in the theater, I actually got up and left the movie because I was tired of waiting to see the end. I never did find out, and I never will. The movie seemed like it was six hours long just because of the repetition. Please don't rent this if you get bored quick.~Natalie Kilpatrick
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Summary: Great movie!!
Review: This movie is about a day repeating over and over. Basically, it's like a twilight zone type thing. But it's really cool. I mean, the way it repeats itself is funny and cool. This movie is great!
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Summary: Murray's best ever
Review: I'm not a huge fan of Murray's, but he hits all the right notes in this film. Great supporting cast, and we've all felt like this when our job gets a bit repetitive. Original premis, great script, funny characters. Pure fluff comedy. Highly enjoyable.
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Summary: Hysterically funny, but with some real moral messages
Review: Groundhog Day is the best work Bill Murray has ever done; the movie kept me in uncontrolled belly laughter through much of it, the kind of laughing where your stomach hurts and your eyes water. The film was about a very arrogant TV news reporter who has to narrate the television coverage each year for the annual Groundhog Day festival in some rural town in Pennsylvania. The newscaster, played by Bill Murray, is rude and contemptuous of everyone he meets, feeling that he is above the townsfolk and their folksy celebration. At the end of the day, he retires to his bed in the inn where he has booked a room, since a blizzard has closed the highway and he can't escape back to New York. When morning comes, the clock radio's mechanical readout clicks over to 6:00 AM, and the radio begins playing Sonny and Cher's "I've Got You Babe," the very same song that had played the day before, with the same D.J. banter as the day before. At first the protagonist (Phil) thinks he is listening to a tape that was replayed on radio by mistake, but he quickly learns that he is reliving Groundhog Day all over again. He is thus stuck in a seemingly never-ending replay of the same day, over and over again. Resigned to his fate, Phil uses the situation to get to know all about women in advance, then uses the knowledge to seduce them in a subsequent replay of the day. In spite of his best efforts and careful study, he is unable, however, to seduce his female producer, Rita (Andie MacDowell), who has accompanied him from the television station to cover the Groundhog Day story. Bored with that, he commits suicide several times, just for fun, by stepping in front of a truck, by driving a pickup off a cliff, and by jumping off a roof. One of the funniest scenes is where he steals the M.C.'s pickup after the Groundhog Day ceremonies, kidnaps the groundhog, and leads police on a road chase. He allows the ground hog to steer the pickup, and they smash through fences and weave all over the road. I laughed until I screamed. But Murray wasn't through busting my sides. Next, he meets a couple of rural drunks in what appears to be lumberjack garb, and when they leave the bar, Phil (Murray) drives. He provokes a cop car to chase him wildly through the town, and then down a railroad track towards an oncoming train, while his buddies bounce up and down in their seats. When the cops finally stop Phil, he tries to order breakfast, as if they were carhops instead of cops. It is Murray at his comic-genius best. Finally tired of all the silliness, Phil begins taking piano lessons. Every day it's his first lesson all over again; but each day he knows more. He also learns to ice sculpt, and befriends a homeless old man, whom he feeds and treats kindly; but in spite of his best efforts, he cannot save the old man from dying at the end of the day. That sadness seems to affect him for the better, as he begins to value life and people. Finally, he is a changed man. He is very kind to everyone he meets, delivers a very touching speech to the television camera at the Groundhog Day ceremonies, and that evening, amazes the town as he plays a hot piano before the assembled townsfolk in a grand Groundhog Day dance. He is auctioned off as a date for charity, and the town women bid for him; but Rita (MacDowell) outbids them all, and gets him as her date. They fall asleep together in his room at the inn, and the next morning, the clock clicks over to 6:00 AM, Sonny and Cher begin to sing as they have for countless days before, Phil's eyes open wide -- and you'll have to see the movie to learn whether Phil has finally appeased the gods and broken the cycle. The film was more than funny; it had some wonderful moral messages. We have limited time, but we act as if it were unlimited. But if we use time and live each day to the maximum, we can accomplish wonderful things, and make other passengers to the grave happy along the way -- as well as ourselves. This film is filled with beautiful winter scenery and makes small towns in Pennsylvania seem a wonderful place to live. This is one of my favorite films of all time.
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Summary: Una comedia intelegente
Review: Una de las mejores comedias románticas que hay, es una película muy inteligente, nos enseña la evolución del alma durante la vida. La mejor actuación de Bill Murray
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Summary: A note about the DVD...
Review: One of my favorite movies - but not enhanced by being on DVD. The only additional material provided is the original theatrical trailer. What? No interview with Bill Murray, Andie McDowell, Chris Elliot? No commentary by Harold Ramis? These opportunites were sadly missed.
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Summary: A fun movie
Review: The premise of this movie is pretty basic. An arrogant TV reporter is trapped, reliving one day over and over. He's the only one who knows it; everyone else starts each day as if it's the first time. What makes it so fun is the way that this idea is developed. The movie is clever in exploiting the possibilities of the scenario. It's funny, and also warm in that we enjoy watching the development of the character through his experiences. The DVD version is well-done, but doesn't add much in the way of bonus material.
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Summary: Bill Murray's best!
Review: In this movie Bill Murray plays Phil, a TV weatherman working for a local station in Pennsylvania but convinced that national news stardom is in his grasp. Phil displays a charm and wit on camera that evaporates the moment the red light goes off; he is bitter, appallingly self-centered, and treats his co-workers with contempt, especially his producer Rita played by the charming Andie MacDowell and cameraman Larry played by Chris Elliot. On February 2, 1992, Phil, Rita, and Larry are sent on an assignment that Phil especially loathes: the annual Groundhog Day festivities in Punxsutawney, PA, where the citizens await the appearance of Punxsutawney Phil, the groundhog who will supposedly determine the length of winter by his ability to see his own shadow. Phil is eager to beat a hasty retreat, but when a freak snowstorm strands him in Punxsutawney, he wakes up the next morning with the strangest sense of déjà vu: he seems to be living the same day over again. The next morning it happens again, and then again. Soon, no matter what he does, he's stuck in February 2, 1992; nothing her tries gets him out of the loop. But the more Phil relives the same day, the more he's forced to look at other people's lives, and something unusual happens: he begins to care about others. He starts to respect people, he tries to save the life of a homeless man, and he discovers that he's falling in love with Rita and therefore wants to be someone that she could love in return.
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Summary: A simply brilliant little film
Review: This is perfectly charming movie, so much so that one can actually describe it as charming. It's a simple concept, that of a man trapped into living the same day over and over again. What sets it on a pedestal is the writing and acting. The writing is flawless, this is simply one of the few films where everything works and while no fat is seen for trimming, one also sees nothing that was left out. However, none of this would matter were it not for the acting. The supporting staff is excellent, McDowell, Elliot and even every actor in a bit part. However, it's Bill Murray's show all of the way. He is amazing. One thinks of him as a comedic actor first and he is certainly great in those moments here. However, for the movie to work you must believe his transformation from jerk to saint. There is a montage of scenes where he tries to escape by various methods of suicide, it starts off darkly funny and then over the course of thirty seconds smoothly transforms to sheer anguish and pain. I can think of no other actor who could have pulled this role off, with perhaps the exception of Steve Martin (based on another amazing movie, "All of Me") but Murray owns this film. Put it this way, this movie is one of the very, very few (<5) that I regularly pop in the player and enjoy just as much the 50th time as I did the first.
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Summary: Hope for schmucks
Review: This potentially lightweight romantic comedy takes a potentially tedious fantastic twist and turns it into a tribute to the possibility of redemption for even the most despicable of us poor humans. Bill Murray's character actually becomes likeable by the end of the movie, which may be a real tribute to his acting ability.
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