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The longest days of Phil Connors' life
And they are transformational ones too. Phil Connors is an egotistic, sarcastic prima donna weatherman for Pittsburgh station WPBH who's sent with producer Rita and cameraman Larry to cover the Groundhog Day celebration in Punxsutawney. There's no love lost between the trio, as Rita and Chris don't care too much for their conceited colleague. And yep, it's six more weeks of winter according to Punxsutawney Phil, the groundhog. Unfortunately, a blizzard that he did not foretell in his own forecast makes chances for departure back to Pittsburgh 0%. The next day, at 6:00 AM, it's no... not 3 February, but Groundhog Day once again! Connors becomes stuck in a weird timewarp where everyday is Groundhog Day. Nothing can happen to him, and every day starts anew for the folksy people of Punxsutawney, but he remembers everything else that happened the day before.

The rest of the movie is variations on a theme--how Phil spends the day trying to figure out his predicament and how he interracts with certain people on different Groundhog Days. There's Ned Ryerson, a nerdy former classmate who tries to sell Phil life insurance, a hefty fellow lodger Connors encounters as he leaves his room, and an elderly bum on a street corner, which later turns out to be one of the most poignant scenes. Surprisingly, repeated segments don't detract from the movie.

The main point of this comedy is that the attitude we emanate is what makes one attractive or endearing to people. It also states that the choices we make affects everyone else for better or worse, and how to be the best we can be so others respond in a positive way or how simple kind words can make a person's day. Connors exudes nothing but a bad attitude from the beginning. He makes chauvinistic remarks to Rita, and in one of his broadcasts, refers to his namesake as an overgrown squirrel.

Rita is the catalyst here. Phil's attracted to her and tries whatever he can to score with her, by finding out her favourite drink, what she studied before her journalistic career, but it's when he actually comes to her for help after she's touched by his truly beautiful weather report that he realizes how nice a person that he turns over a new leaf. He learns detachment and emanating a positive aura that makes others attracted to him instead of trying to focus on a single person.

This is one of Bill Murray's best movies, as his character goes from obnoxious jerk to someone who emanates so much positive energy that he's the most popular guy around. Andie McDowell shines as Rita, with those crinkly eyes and sweet smile making her even more endearing than in Four Weddings And A Funeral. And director Harold Ramis, Murray's costar in Stripes and the two Ghostbusters movies, has a brief scene as the local neurologist. Chris Elliott (Larry) has the funniest word in the movie when MacDowell asks him why Murray would kidnap a groundhog. He says he can think of a few reasons, and then says, "pervert!"

To be sure, this will be the movie that did to Sonny and Cher's "I Got You Babe" what mad cow disease did for cows. And hey, at least it gave Bill Murray a chance to work with a real rodent as opposed to a bogus puppet in Caddyshack. But it's a delightful comedy that stresses that if we emanate positive energy by becoming the best person that we can to others, others will return the energy.

Bill Murray's best and one of my fav comedies!
Phil Connors (Murray) is an obnoxious weatherman with an ego the size of the Grand Canyon. Every (you guessed it) Groundhog Day he must cover the groundhog's shadow in Punxatawney, PA, accompanied by kind, sensitive producer Rita (whom is the girl of the movie) and their hopeless womanizer cameraman Larry (who only has few scenes). But after their first day, Phil wakes up to it...again. Everyone is wearing the same clothes, saying the same things, doing everything they did yesterday...er...today...er....

The real laughs begin when Phil begins taking advantage of his newfound situation by doing whatever he wants, such as stealing money from a truck, learning stuff about girls and then meeting them the next day acting as if they were his long-lost friend, or simply avoiding the bad stuff that happened to him.

But Phil's situation soon turns into a predicament, for soon he grows tired of his plight, even more so when he learns he cannot die, after several (hundred) attempts to commit suicide. Phil begins waking up to hell, as new events begin to happen, like him finding a homeless man on the streets and dying every single day.

Eventually Phil begins to woo Rita, going through horrible dates just to learn everything about her, and when tat doesn't work, he works on the good aspects of life, learning piano, etc. I won't reveal the ending (I've already revealed too much) but I promise you that you will laugh out loud, and maybe shed a tear, for this wonderful movie.

it's going to last you the rest of your life!
Groundhog Day is the funniest movie of the 90's. Brilliant performance by Bill Murray who plays a cocky weatherman Phil Connors who covers Groundhog day every year in the small town of Punxatawnee that he hates. The day end with him being stuck there because of a blizzard that he didn't predict...and what more, he relives groundhog day over and over again...taking advantage of it, taking his own life, making a move on his producer Andie Macdowell which turns out to be his first lesson in reviewing his inner cruelty and becoming a better person, and a local hero!

This movie is straight out funny...it will make you crack up with every viewing. Watch out for Stephen Tobolowski in his bizarre role as Ned Ryerson, and a cameo appearance by the film's director (and Murray's costar in Ghostbusters) Harold Ramis.

The features are well worth the money too.

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