Groundhog Day movie review

April 29, 2010 - #10/100
Groundhog Day (1993)

Phil (Bill Murray) is a weatherman, and pretty much is an expert when it comes to hiding his emotions. He acts as if he doesn't care about anything or anyone, except for himself. For Groundhog Day, he is assigned to travel to a city and report what the groundhog says about winter. Rita (Andie MacDowell) tags along. Phil hates Groundhog Day (February 2nd) with a passion, and oddly enough, the keeps re-living that same day over and over again. Whenever he wakes up, it's Groundhog Day again. He can't escape it. So, the same exact thing keeps happening each day. He has the same conversations with the same people. Eventually, he figures out that whatever he does on that particular day doesn't really matter since the next day will never come. So, he pretty much does whatever he wants. Towards the end of the movie, he starts to actually help people out. Every single Groundhog Day, he tries to save as many lives as possible. Eventually, he even manages to get Rita to fall in love with him. In the end, once he has learned to care about others and Rita loves him, Groundhog Day ends and it's finally February 3rd. Personally, this movie started to get on my nerves. I know that the repetitiveness belongs in the movie, but I just found it to be quite obnoxious. Apart from that, all of the acting was great. Well, apart from Andie MacDowell. I still don't really think that she is that great of an actress, especially in Four Weddings and a Funeral. Bill Murray always manages to be subtly funny. Overall, it was an enjoyable movie. I wouldn't mind watching it again, even though the repetitiveness greatly bothered me.

I gave this movie 7/10 stars on imdb.com.