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Groundhog Day
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Murray/Macdowell
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Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott. A cynical TV weatherman covering a Groundhog Day ceremony gets trapped in a hellish daily replay of the same 24 hours. 1993/color/103 min/PG/widescreen.Reviews:
Columbia/Tristar Studios, 1993Running time: 101 minutes. Rated PG.
DVD Release Date: January 29, 2002
Special features: Anamorphic transfer; Commentary by director Harold Ramis; Documentary: The Weight of Time;
Available subtitles: English, Spanish, French, Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Thai
No one plays dickheads quite like Bill Murray. In "Groundhog Day," his approach to haughty sarcasm reaches its zenith early in the film, but thanks to an inspired premise and the film's crafty internal conceit, the wane of his tortuous arc from royal prick to genuine human is so satisfying that, like love interest Andie McDowell at the film's denouement, you don't even remember how much you hated him.
As existential as it is fluffy, "Groundhog Day" finds Murray as a TV weatherman trapped in a nowhere town, forced to constantly confront his own snide behavior and the same 24 hours over and over again, a motif surely cribbed from "A Christmas Carol." Though this Dickensian absenteeism is a risky proposition for a filmmaker-to show the same scenes playing out slightly differently for an entire chunk of the film without ghosts as guideposts-director Harold Ramis (who's been a Murray cohort since "Caddyshack") makes the most of the d voodoo. This one's worth six more weeks of winter.
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