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Groundhog Day (1993)
Daniel's Review
Have you ever wanted to relive the same day, twice? Or multiple times? Well, that’s the premise for the 1993 film ‘Groundhog Day’.
The film is about Phil Connors (Bill Murray) a television newsreader and meteorologist that gets sent out on an assignment by the television station to cover the annual Groundhog Day festivities. When an unexpected blizzard comes, he is stuck in Pennsylvania, redoing the same day, overand over, and over again.
This film works wonderfully well, with similarities to ‘Source Code’ that both share the same theme of redoing a day multiple times, ‘Groundhog Day’ works out well, like ‘Source Code’, as each time the day is redone, its done in differentiating ways that makes each day unique, despite sharing similar traits, which is a huge accomplishment as it doesn’t make the film boring, but rather a delight, and at times extremely hilarious to watch.
The acting is also good, with Bill Murray showcasing an excellent performance as the film’s central protagonist.
The writing is also pretty good, with a humorous, yet enjoyable story.
My only complaints, the event that happens with these days lapping over and over isn’t quite clear, but this can be overlooked by the film’s smart writing.
‘Groundhog Day’ is a delightful movie, from start to start to start.
Score: 8.5/10
Published: September 18th, 2015
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Release Date: April 8th, 1993
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Runtime: 101 mins
Rated: PG
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Rob's Review
'Groundhog Day' is the 1993 movie starring Bill Murray and directed by Harold Ramis as it follows the disgruntled weather man Phil (Bill Murray) as he goes to report on the annual Groundhog Day festival, when he gets stuck in the local town of Punxsutawney by a blizzard and has to redo Groundhog Day over and over again.
This is the original “do-over day” movie/story, and I have to say that I really enjoyed this movie; it has light hearted drama with great comedy.
A good story to keep you really engaged. The flow of this movie was on point as you were never bored from what was happening in Phil's life as he repeats his day over and over.
Overall, this is a light hearted romdey (romantic-comedy) with enough get up and go to keep you entertained but “I Got Ya Babe” if I never hear that song again I wouldn’t be happy.
Score: 8/10