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Groundhog Day
Release Date	February 12, 1993
Genre	Comedy Fantasy
Director	Harold Ramis
Screenwriter	Danny Rubin Harold Ramis
Stars	Bill Murray Andie MacDowell Chris Elliot Stephen Tobolowsky Brian Doyle-Murray Marita Geraghyu Angela Paton
Studio	Columbia Pictures Corporation

In Groundhog Day, a Harold Ramis–directed fantasy-comedy-romance (fan-com-rom) film, Bill Murray plays a snide, condescending local weather man who's tired of waiting for his network glory.

Phil Connors (Murray) is again assigned a piece about the groundhog-and-his-shadow ceremony in Punxsatawney, Pennsylvania, a story he'd almost rather die than cover. An unexpected snowstorm forces Phil and his crew to stay overnight in the quaint town, but the next day doesn't come. Phil begins reliving the day over and over and over. And over.

He goes from insane to bored to conniving to, eventually, redeemed. The moral is that life isn't always the next step. Just as often, it's the step you are in.

The theme—being stuck in time until you snap out of it—has been done before and no doubt will be done again. But it would be a feat to do it better than it was done here.

External Links

• Groundhog Day at IMDB
• Groundhog Day at MRQE.com

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