Groundhog Day

Bill Murray plays Phil, a TV weatherman working for a local station in Pennsylvania but convinced that national news stardom is in his grasp. Phil displays a charm and wit on camera that evaporates the moment the red light goes off; he is bitter, appallingly self-centered, and treats his co-workers ...more

One of the funniest and most ingenious films of the 1990s, Groundhog Day is both an innovative comic masterpiece and one of the few films of Bill Murray's career to exploit fully his abilities as a performer. Surreal, bewildering, and wryly existential, Groundhog Day's genius resides both in Murray's performance and in the treatment of its theme: even worse than not knowing what is going to happen is knowing exactly what will happen, day after day after day. Director Harold Ramis gives his ...more