HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis 1993) Based on a story by Danny Rubin, who adapted it to a screenplay along with director Harold Ramis, Goundhog Day is a hilarious romantic comedy-fantasy starring Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell. Phil Connors (Murray) is a TV weatherman for a local Pennsylvania television station. On air hes easy-going and amiable but in real life hes an arrogant and self-centered man, who treats all those around him with disdain. So when he, his producer Rita (MacDowell) and cameraman Larry (Chris Elliot) are sent to the small town of Punxsutawney to cover their yearly Groundhog Day event on February 2nd, in which a groundhog will supposedly tell the length of the winter, Phil is filled sarcasm and cant wait to get the assignment over and done with. He covers the event but his team is forced to spend the night in town when a severe snowstorm hits. To his surprise, he awakes the next morning to what appears to be February 2nd Groundhog Day again. Worse still, the same thing keeps happening day after day and Phil is seemingly forced to relive the same day till the end of time, whilst everybody else seems to live it like its their first time around. And as he endlessly keeps going through it, Phil starts to take note of those around him and slowly actually begins caring for them as he falls in love with Rita. Featuring one of Bill Murrays quintessential and most beloved roles, Groundhog Day takes a fantastic premise and runs with it wonderfully. Mining loads of humor from constant repetition and Murrays response to it, the script is a comic gem whilst Harold Ramis manages to treat it with enough realism to make one accept the outrageous concept. But ultimately this is Murrays movie as he perfectly captures the grumpy misanthrope with his deadpan delivery who is forced to change his ways by being imprisoned in the same day in the same boring town. Groundhog Day won a BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay, Best Comedy Film at the British Comedy Awards and was actually was added to the United States National Film Registry in 2006 on account of being culturally, historically or aesthetically significant. https://youtube/watch?v=tSVeDx9fk60
Posted on: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 13:27:55 +0000
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