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| Groundhog Day | 
| Category: Movie
Buy New: $2.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  349 reviews
Sales Rank: 1988
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: Video On Demand
Running Time: 102 minutes
ASIN: B00170I7GG
Theatrical Release Date: February 11, 1993
Release Date: December 2, 2008 (New: This Week)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 THE GROUNDHOG DAY GROUNDHOG THE October 28, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
1993. Produced, co-written with Danny Rubin, and directed by Harold Ramis. In my humble opinion, THE adult dramatic comedy of the nineties. A rare screenplay and an outstanding performance by Bill Murray. Funny but smart. Masterpiece.
Bing! October 5, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Groundhog Day is Bill Murray's best film by some distance. It's a romantic comedy in disguise. However unlike a lot of romantic comedies it doesn't leave me wanting to throw-up in a bucket. Bill Murray plays Phil Conners a TV Weatherman man destined to re-live the same day over and over, and from the way it is depicted in the film, this happens literally thousands of times. Sent to cover the Groundhog Day festivities in Punxsutawney the very cynical Phil can't believe it when he wakes the next morning to find its Groundhog Day again.....
Many of the characters will live on with you after you have seen the film. Perhaps best of all is Ned Ryerson (brilliantly played by Stephen Tobolowsky) who Phil Conners meets every day over and over. He was someone Phil new at school, but now he's the Insurance salesman from hell. This a very funny film, I saw it at the Cinema two or three times and have enjoyed it every time since. There hasn't been a better comedy since it was made. For that matter I can't think of many better before it was made.
The supporting cast are all good, and the extras on the DVD include a directors commentary, documentary as well as the usual trailers etc.
 Excellent, but...think about it! September 11, 2007
Don't get me wrong, I really like this movie. But think about the philosophical implications.
Here we have a man who has to go through the same day over and over. At 6 AM, everything in his life goes back to the way it was 24 hours ago.
But everything in the world is interconnected. So that means that every person in the world would have to relive the same day over and over. And every living thing--every animal and plant. And every object in the world, every atom in the world, would have to shift back to the way it had been. The Earth itself would have to go back to where it had been in its orbit.
Every single living being and every atom in the entire universe, and the entire universe itself, would have to revert back to the way it had been the day before, over and over again.
All so that this one man could learn to become a better person.
I mean, just how important is this guy, anyway?
VERY FUNNY MOVIE August 28, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I THOUGHT THAT THIS MOVIE WAS VERY FUNNY BUT ALSO NERVE WRACKING. I WOULD HATE TO WAKE UP TO "I'VE GOT YOU BABE" EVERY MORNING, IT WOULD DRIVE ME CRAZY. BILL MURRAY IS VERY HILARIOUS AND IS VERY AGGRAVATED THAT HE WAKES UP EVERY MORNING AND REPEATS THE SAME THING EVERYDAY UNTIL HE FIGURES OUT WHAT HE NEEDS TO DO RIGHT TO CHANGE HIS DESTINY.
a profound comic parable August 24, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I'd seen only bits and pieces of "Groundhog Day", and hadn't cared for it. Then I sat down yesterday and watched the whole thing.
I was flabbergasted. This is a movie about the way we piss away our lives, day by day, never improving our own lives or the lives of those around us.
Unhesitatingly recommended.
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