Groundhog Day (DVD)

When i saw this when i was younger, i used to wonder what i would do in the place of Bill Murray. This story follows Phil Connors (Murray) as he is stuck in the same day, repeating it's self over and over again with no escape. It first it seems like hell, but as the film progresses Phil learns to except it and make the most of the time he is given. I do enjoying wondering about what i would do, with the endless possibilities and lack of responsibility. However i think that the film makes good use to show how horrible it would be to be in his place. Watching it recently i took note on how well the continuity is done. With the same scenes repeated, i ...  Read the complete review

The standard of film comedy to emerge from Hollywood in recent years has been largely poor, but long after all the dull-witted gross-out movies and dreary extended sitcom episodes have been forgotten, at least one film comedy from the last decade will still be treasured and acclaimed as a classic. That film is GROUNDHOG DAY. What is remarkable about GROUNDHOG DAY is not that it is very funny (though it most assuredly is), it is that the film is also intelligent, profound, original, moving, and imbued with almost overwhelming hope and humanity. I can bring few films to mind of the countless number I’ve watched in my life that truly inspire me the way this ...  Read the complete review

Groundhog Day is a film I have meaning to watch for quite some time, as it is one of those films that is often referred too in other works and I just felt like I should have seen it. Finding it at a bargain price the other day then I snapped it up quickly. To be perfectly honest when I placed it in my DVD player I wasn't expecting that much, as my dad had already warned me that it was bad but I didn't quite expect it to be as bad as it was. Phil Connors, played by Bill Murray, is a TV weatherman that every year is sent to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania to cover the annual Groundhog Day festivities. On this day every year crowds gather to see a small groundhog, ...  Read the complete review

Phil Connors (Bill Murray) yearns for more status. Tired of doing the local weather and the occasional quirky news story, he's generally dismissive of the people that work with him, unkind to strangers and feels that life's a drag. So when he gets asked to cover the annual Groundhog Day celebrations in Punxsutawney yet again, he reluctantly goes together with his pretty producer, Rita (Andie MacDowell) and cameraman, Larry (Chris Elliott). Holing up in a local bed and breakfast, he's woken at 6am by his radio-clock alarm to the strains of Sony and Cher's "I Got You Babe" followed by the inane babble of two of the radio station's DJs. Connors shoots ...  Read the complete review

Released in 1993, Groundhog Day stars Bill Murray as bitter and self-centred weatherman Phil, who has been sent out on an assignment with his producer Rita (Andie Macdowall) and an accompanying cameraman by the name of Larry (Chris Elliott) to report on Groundhog Day in a remote town in Pennsylvania, a festival in which the locals celebrate the emergance of a groundhog from its borrow, thus signifying the beginning of spring. Phil is bemused to discover however that his day just repeats over and over seemingly endlessly, and trapped in this endlessly self-perpetuating timeline he falls in love with Rita and tries to woo her, failing miserably at first and ...  Read the complete review