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Groundhog day is still voted as the greatest screenplay of all-time by the writer's guild.

I don't think it would've taken me too many years to skip the morning cold shower

To quote something I ran across a while back ... "On the DVD, Harold Ramis states that the original idea was for him to live February 2nd for about 10,000 years. Later he says that Phil probably lived the same day for about 10 years." Harold probably says a different number of years to nearly everyone who asks just to mess with them. I'm sure he was quite tired of being asked that so he just throws a number out.

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My favorite scene in the whole movie - when Phil is having a drink with Rita. Phil: You didn't study journalism in college? Rita: Actually, I studied 19th century French poetry. Phil: HA! What a waste of time! I mean....

The movie never presents what would happen if he stayed awake for more than 24 hours.

3:53 The man that Phil saves from choking is Bill Murray's real-life brother.

Smoking in a restaurant? Movie is older than I thought it was.

starring the beautiful Andie Macdowell whose eyes can buckle a mans knees

The second point about meeting people at the same place was needed to clearly convey to viewers that the day being repeated. Its not necessary for the storyline.

Brian Doyle Murray was 4 years young (48) than Marlon Wayans (52) in this movie. HOW??!!!

in reality it was more like a few thousand years

Phil is a coma on life support or he's a ghost and he's dreaming the whole movie his news director-producer/girlfriend is also dreaming they save each other.

I saw Groundhog Day the musical in New York. My son had recently died (suicide) so after a while, eventually I took the family to New York for a vacation. We were thinking of seeing Cats, but I saw that Groundhog Day the musical just opened, so, it was a great movie I loved with comedy so I took my wife and two of the siblings to see the musical. Mid-way through the musical, I realized that I had completely forgotten that there were dozens of suicides in the story. Yikes! Well, we all enjoyed the story anyway, the kids didn't complain, and I really liked the musical, the acting, the singing. I bought the CD. You gotta go hear "Playing Nancy" and especially poignant, sung by the salesman "Night Will Come" - A beautiful, wonderfully haunting song. While he sang that in the musical, the stage would rotate and alternate between trying to save the old man and doing other things, like learning the piano. Hard to say it, but those three things were better in the musical.

In chaos theory, there is the discussion of "wells". For instance, if you leave for the bus five minutes early, doesn't matter, you will get on the bus at the same time you would have if you left at the right time. If Phil wanted to cross the street between certain cars, when the light changed to red, or pet a dog, or see a woman jog, then he could have adjusted his timing. Or like having to wait for a snow plow to finish the crosswalk, etc

The original script apparently had him living the same day for thousands of years. I have a hard time believing that he only spent a few decades in the loop, by the end he knew everyone in the town better than I know myself, and he knew every event that happened at every time of the day. I think it had to be way more 100 years at least.

I am having 3/4 of this every day of my life, just I don't learn any extra skills, and I must not commit suicide. It's called : get up, wash your face, eat something, drink coffee, go poop, go shower, brush your teeth, drive 30 min. to work, meet the same idiots, and work for 8 hours, have 1h lunch break, drive home, stop on the way home 2x a week to buy bread and something to eat. Get home, shower, make dinner or eat something from the freezer, watch TV or any other screen, jerk off or have 1 of 10 time sex in a year eighter with a girlfriend or friend from the job, shower and go to sleep. Weekends, same just replace work with cleaning and washing stuff for next week.

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I suffered tons of abuse from my peers because I had the worst acne of anyone in my high school. Scrubbed my face raw with soap, but it didn't help. Weekly injections from the dermatologist also failed to help. NOTHING COULD STOP THE ACNE. Then one day -- long after high school, unfortunately -- I gave up dairy. The zits disappeared immediately! My life would have turned out vastly different if someone had told me this when I was a teenager.

Nope, he doesn’t meet Ned Ryerson every day. Some days he kills himself or stays in the hotel or does something else. Some days he doesn’t meet the guy on the stairs because he decides to delay or do something else. But when he does follow his normal routine it does take the same time and so he does meet both of them along his route. But it’s not a given that he does.

If he was about 30 years old the first time he experienced the loop, wouldn't he look a lot older by the end if it were 30-40 years later? He'd be, like, 60-70 years old!

_"You make your choices and you live with them."_

Some peeps reeaaallly do overthink a movie !!!

34 years to be a good man.

Also Phil "unalived" himself so many times that he said, he doesn't exist anymore. That's a lot of annihilation.

There are a few perfect movies, curiously most of them were made in the late 80's or early 90's. Groundhog day is one of those perfect movies that you can watch over and over again. Others that come to mind are The Crow, The Princess Bride, Life of Brian and Alien.

Disadvantages - you won't get any work done, since all will be purged the next morning. and you're immortal. Advantages - you're immortal. You can polish your skills almost infinitely. You can violate every man made law without any consequence (yes, there is a reason for the popularity of GTA). Depending on your view (are we experiencing the same timeline or different versions of that timeline that are independent of each other) there is no use of rescuing those people, a moral incentive to rescue those people or unwarranted interference of that timeline.

Wrong about shower.

Ego go

Today everything is running much quicker... There should be some balance. I`m losing my hours. 😐😐😐😐

who cares

Better to be stuck in a time loop than being an immortal

Ramis is one of the most understated writers and comedians of my time. I can't recall any pissing, or moaning from the guy. He always appeared to be happy and gave us far more than he took. He's one guy that I will look up to say thanks.

Groundhog day is, unintentionally, one of the greatest horror movies of all times. Literally a fate worse than death.

I don't need to imagine it....I'm 54 and I work in the corporate world. This is one is in the top five favorite movies of all time. I've probably watched it about 10 times.

I think Phil could have figured out a hot shower each day.

As far as him meeing the same people at the exact same times each day, perhaps it's much like him trying to save the old man's life. Some things are just destined to happen and impossible to avoid.

Great video!

In an interview with Harold Ramis, the director of the movie, he said the orgiinal screenwriter envisioned him actually spending thousands of years repeating that day. So I'd say 40 years or so is getting off easy!

Spending a few decades living the same day would feel less terrifying today with all the content we have available online: UA-cam, Netflix, and any streaming/movie service (legal or not). Videogames would be hard to do in one day but eventually, he should be able to play all that he can in 24 hours in a game and after that learn to speedrunning the game to play new parts. The hell, in a loop he would have time to learn any language online to enjoy new media in those languages, in the case he has already watched everything in English.

I realized all of these things.

Before I knew any trivia about the movie, in my mind’s eye, he relived that day about 42 times - after all, 6 more weeks of winter (6x7=42). Better yet, when you “count” the sequences as well as the references to his suicides, etc., it ends up somewhere in that ballpark. My feeble little brain likes that outcome better than 40 years. (Granted, he probably couldn’t master the ice sculpting that quickly.) Quite honestly, the 30-40 years plot really bothers me. It’s TOO long! 40-42 days sounds just about right… Oh, and 40 days in the Bible was always symbolic of a trial or test of some sort… so it works nicely with that theme!

This video is surface level stuff. No new insights here.

No wonder why this took 6 months to film in woodstock

It is interesting how proponent for certain religions see their own myths reflected in this story. It just shows that these conundrums are interesting, and have been interesting, people for thousand of years.

"Groundhog Day" is a fascinating philosophical treatise. Although Phil's journey to enlightenment through acts of goodness can be seen as a spiritual one, that wasn't the only way it could have gone. Earlier treatments of the story examined a life without consequences, which is effectively granted by the day being "reset". e.g. you could torture and murder someone, and get away with it. But further, if the person you killed comes back the next day, is it really even murder? In the movie, the worst Phil gets up to is knocking over some mailboxes, and stealing the beaver. Phil equally might have become a Devil in order to satisfy his desires, rather than a benevolent God, but of course that would not play so well with audiences, who still prefer movies as morality tales.

But why did he need to get up for work?

Imagine all the things you could master in this situation, assuming they have a good library, bookstore, or the internet.

This movie is not a spiritual film. It's a cleverly hidden love story.

He could have found an empty house which had hot water still on (or gone to a gym)....