Groundhog Day (1993)

Release date: 1993-02-12
Country: USA
Language: English|French|Italian
Director: Harold Ramis
Production Co: Columbia Pictures
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Rating: 8.0/10
Length: 1h 41min

Storyline

A weather man is reluctantly sent to cover a story about a weather forecasting "rat" (as he calls it). This is his fourth year on the story, and he makes no effort to hide his frustration. On awaking the 'following' day he discovers that it's Groundhog Day again, and again, and again. First he uses this to his advantage, then comes the realisation that he is doomed to spend the rest of eternity in the same place, seeing the same people do the same thing EVERY day.

Plot Keywords

time loop, suicide, cult film, alarm clock, bed and breakfast, blizzard, existentialism, magical realism, attempted suicide, trapped, pittsburgh pennsylvania, tv news, deja vu, repeated scene, drunkenness, weather report, lighting someone's cigarette, night, repeated event, face slap

Short Review

Murray, more often than not, is pretty unbearable; but here, playing a man who is unbearable, Murray begins convincingly, amusingly, and gets even more amusing as he metamorphoses.