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DVD Groundhog Day (Special Edition)
Bill Murray does warmth in his most consistently effective post-Stripes comedy, a romantic fantasy about a wacky weatherman forced to relive one strange day over and over again, until he gets it right. Snowed in during a road-trip expedition to watch the famous groundhog encounter his shadow, Murray falls into a time warp that is never explained but pays off so richly that it doesn't need to be. The elaborate loop-the-loop plot structure cooked up by screenwriter Danny Rubin is crystal-clear every step of the way, but it's Murray's world-class reactive timing that makes the jokes explode, and we end up looking forward to each new variation. He squeezes all the available juice out of every scene. Without forcing the issue, he makes us understand why this fly-away personality responds so intensely to the radiant sanity of the TV producer played by Andie MacDowell. The blissfully clueless Chris Elliott (Cabin Boy) is Murray's nudnik cameraman. --David Chute
Sometimes timeshifting works (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) and sometimes it doesn't, as in Groundhog Day, a moderately entertaining romantic comedy starring Bill Murray and Andie McDowell. Murray does his usual fine and seemingly effortless job of playing the jaded TV weatherman Phil Connors on "one-day" journey of discovery of the meaning of life. After awhile I understood the what and why, but I just couldn't get past how he kept waking up in the same day, other than to satisfy the needs of the script. I guess at some level the story was a fairy tale, like Beauty and the Beast, with the hourglass holding in place until the beast figured out what to do. Maybe Charlie Kaufman could have written this so that cynics like me would get it. A reluctant 3 stars, but 2 1/2 is more like it.
Comic yes, but so much more than that as well...
This is a great film, exploring a vain and selfish man's willingness to improve his character via a quest for the love of an irresistable woman. He is helped on this journey by getting stuck in a one-person time warp, having to relive the same day again and again until he gets his attitude toward life right. Surely you've seen it already, but it rewards repeated viewing.
Murray's Best Film of the Nineties
Bill Murray's, (since his tenure on SNL) acting career has moved from good to the astounding, a great stand-up in his own right, the actor has pushed his own boundaries, and in the early days, taking on projects way beyond his talent, i.e., The Razors Edge, however, as the years move on, the man continues to entertain us with his particular style of humour.
Most of his eighties films, Stripes, Ghostbusters, et al, are truly funny films, even after twenty years since their initial release, they continue, no matter how many times you've seen them, bring out at least a chuckle. All are hilarious, but Groundhog Day (1993) stands out because it touches on themes that matter: love, kindness, selfishness, selflessness; a sense of community and, for the most part, the value of living in the moment, that is, the life long mission of improving self and those around us.
In the end, though, it is about reaching one's full potential, examining one self, and living an authentic life.
Taking this even further, at the risk of sounding too sentimental, Groundhog Day is a Romantic comedy with a twist.
The story is about a cynical Phil Connors, a weather man who has seen it all before, arrogant, self absorbed and a little nasty. After his first day in Puxatawny, he awakes to a Nietzschean nightmare, the notion of eternal occurrence, where our existence is a circle, repeating the same situations, meeting the same people, experiencing similar events forever until finally, perhaps, the merry-go-round stops and you're allowed to get off.
But how do we stop the merry-go-round, the endless same life lessons, hitting us in the face, over and over again?
Well, really, according to Groundhog Day, the solution is authenticity and love.
It is only when Phil realizes who he actually is, following Plato's suggestion, "Know thy Self", and pursues his true aspirations and the one he truly loves, that the merry-go-round-stops, and life becomes truly worth living.
Groundhog Day is my favourite Murray film because the script, story and direction was created for him and he rose to the occasion, making this film one of the greatest Romantic comedies in the last twenty years.
This was a funny movie that mostly comes on regular TV when nothing good comes on. Its about a wealthy psychiatrist Dr. leo marvin (richard dreyfuss) who is helping an annoying parasite patient bob (bill murray) with his issues in life and Dr. marvin goes on a vacation with his family in new hampshire at his lake house and bob is lonely won't stop calling him and then he finds out where he lives and comes over and spends vacation with leo and his family and leo can't seem to get rid of bob he will always come no matter what. Poor Leo would become insane and be commited to a mental hospital and bob marries leos sister and bob will become his brother in law. funny movie a little like looney tunes. More Info about this DVD Director(s): Frank Oz DVD Release Date: Released the 11 July 2000 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Ever caught yourself wondering what exactly "Noonan" means? To avoid further embarrassment, every golfer--hack or scratch--must tee it up at Bushwood Country Club for the golf classic Caddyshack. Harold Ramis directs a who's who of 1970s and 1980s stand-up and sketch comedy: Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, and Rodney Dangerfield battle the forces of greed, golf, and gophers in a film that has become a comedy classic.--Richard M. SeanorMore Info about this DVD Director(s): Harold Ramis DVD Release Date: Released the 04 April 2000 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Only die-hard Bill Murray fans will likely consider this movie for their home-video library, but it's not without its rewards. You can see why someone as comically astute as Murray would agree to play a dimwitted American who can't tell the difference between improvised theater and a real-life espionage plot. There's certainly plenty of potential for belly laughs, and Murray milks the opportunities like the old pro that he is. Here he plays an American tourist in London who thinks he's been recruited into a street-theater act called "Theater of Life"; actually, he's stepped into a complicated spy scheme that plays like a cross between Hitchcock and the Marx Brothers. Joanne Whalley costars as the femme fatale who may or may not be a double agent, and along the way there's enough comical... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Bill Murray - Peter Gallagher - Joanne Whalley - Richard Wilson (II) Director(s): Jon Amiel DVD Release Date: Released the 02 October 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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In this crowd-pleasing 1983 comedy of high finance about a homeless con artist who becomes a Wall Street robber baron, Eddie Murphy consolidated the success of his startling debut in the previous year's 48 Hours and polished his slick-winner persona. The turnabout begins with an argument between super-rich siblings, played by Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche: Are captains of industry, they wonder, born or made? To settle the issue, the meanies construct a cruel experiment in social Darwinism. Preppie commodities trader Dan Aykroyd (perfectly cast) is stripped of all his worldly goods and expelled from the firm, and Murphy's smelly derelict is appointed to take his place, graduating to tailored suits and a world-class harem in record time. Eventually the two men team up to teach the... More Info about this DVD Director(s): John Landis DVD Release Date: Released the 24 September 2002 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Most critics couldn't get behind Bill Murray's modern retelling of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, finding it too unfocused at times and not nearly wicked enough. Still, if you're a Murray fan, you have to enjoy his deliciously nasty portrayal of the world's meanest TV executive, who has his cathartic moment one cold Christmas night in New York City. The various ghosts lead him on a ghost-town tour of Manhattan, with stops at holidays past, present, and future and a Kumbaya moment when Al Green and Annie Lennox sing "Put a Little Love in Your Heart." The effects are otherworldly, but one wishes the writing were as sharp as Murray's edgy portrayal. --Marshall FineMore Info about this DVD Director(s): Richard Donner DVD Release Date: Released the 09 November 1999 Usually ships in 24 hours
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