The screenplay by Danny Rubin and Harold Ramis is inspired, but inspired crucially because they saw Bill Murray in it. I can imagine a long list of actors, whose names I will charitably suppress, who could appear in this material and render it simpering, or inane. Phil is played by Bill Murray, and Murray is indispensable before he makes the film wonderful, he does a more difficult thing, which is to make it bearable. We usually have another six weeks of winter, anyway, a fact along with many others that does not escape Phil as he signals his cynicism about this transcendentally silly event. If he does, we will have another six weeks of winter. 2 he is dispatched to Punxsutawney, Pa., to cover the festivities of Groundhog Day, on which Punxsutawney Phil, the groundhog, is awakened from his slumbers and studied to discover if he will see his shadow. In a sense, he feels himself condemned to repeating the same day, anyway the weather changes, but his on-camera shtick remains the same, and he is distant and ironic about his job. This man is named Phil, and he is a weatherman. He is the only person in his world who knows this is happening, and after going through periods of dismay and bitterness, revolt and despair, suicidal self-destruction and cynical recklessness, he begins to do something that is alien to his nature. The movie, as everyone knows, is about a man who finds himself living the same day over and over and over again.
When you find yourself needing the phrase This is like "Groundhog Day" to explain how you feel, a movie has accomplished something. But there are a few films, and this is one of them, that burrow into our memories and become reference points. It unfolds so inevitably, is so entertaining, so apparently effortless, that you have to stand back and slap yourself before you see how good it really is.Ĭertainly I underrated it in my original review I enjoyed it so easily that I was seduced into cheerful moderation. "Groundhog Day" is a film that finds its note and purpose so precisely that its genius may not be immediately noticeable.
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