Groundhog Day is an example of a movie I have seen over and over - and I plan to watch again and again. Which is REALLY funny if you think about the plot of the movie. Heh.
Anyway, Bill Murray can PRETTY MUCH do no wrong as far as I am concerned - with the exception of "What About Bob". I love love love his movies - and HAROLD RAMIS (Egon from Ghostbusters) seriously rocks. He makes a cameo in the film - and he wrote and produced it.
Bill Murray's character "Phil" is a tee-vee weatherman who travels to Punxsutawney, PA in order to report on the groundhog's annual trip from the den to the outside to see if he sees his shadow. When Phil wakes up the morning AFTER the big day, he experiences a feeling of deja vu - and it repeats itself...again and again...until he gets the day "right"...and until he also gets his LIFE right. It's a charming lesson about how you can take a long look at yourself and fix things that need fixing and develop things that need to be worked on in order that you become the person you SHOULD be and the person you wake up each NEW day looking forward to being.
One little piece of trivia that *I* always wondered about. Apparently, in an interview, Ramis mentions that originally the film was supposed to be about a man who re-lived the same day for 10,000 years. In this case, he feels that in his opinion, the movie reflects a man who lived the same day for about 10 years. Interesting! I always figured it was about a year.
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