Groundhog Day

4.67
    Groundhog Day
    1993

    Synopsis

    A narcissistic TV weatherman, along with his attractive-but-distant producer, and his mawkish cameraman, is sent to report on Groundhog Day in the small town of Punxsutawney, where he finds himself repeating the same day over and over.

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    Cast

    • Bill MurrayPhil Connors
    • Andie MacDowellRita Hanson
    • Chris ElliottLarry
    • Stephen TobolowskyNed Ryerson
    • Brian Doyle-MurrayBuster Green
    • Marita GeraghtyNancy Taylor
    • Angela PatonMrs. Lancaster
    • Rick DucommunGus
    • Rick OvertonRalph
    • Robin DukeDoris the Waitress

    Recommendations

    • 90

      Washington Post

      For once, the audience isn't forced to surrender its intelligence (or its healthy cynicism) to embrace the film's sunny resolution.
    • 90

      The A.V. Club

      A hilarious and unexpectedly profound comedy.
    • 88

      ReelViews

      This movie has all the qualities necessary to be a crowd-pleaser: likable characters, charismatic performers, a strong, capably-executed premise, and lots of laughs.
    • 80

      The New Republic

      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. [15 Mar 1993, p.24]
    • 80

      The New York Times

      That glimmer of recognition is what makes Groundhog Day a particularly witty and resonant comedy, even when its jokes are more apt to prompt gentle giggles than rolling in the aisles.
    • 75

      Chicago Sun-Times

      A demonstration of the way time can sometimes give us a break.
    • 67

      Austin Chronicle

      There were a lot of ways for this film to go stupid; it succumbs to none of them.
    • 67

      Entertainment Weekly

      The funniest moments in Groundhog Day come when Phil takes sneaky advantage of his predicament-by, say, pumping a sexy woman in the local coffee shop for facts about her past and then, ''the next day,'' using the information to lure her into bed. What the movie lacks is the ingenious, lapidary comic structure that could have made these moments fuse into something tricky and wild.

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