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Groundhog Day: Bill Murray
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Groundhog Day was a huge success at the box office making a staggering $70.9 million in the US alone. The film won best original screenplay at the BAFTAs, and Bill Murray was nominated for best comedic performance at the MTV movie awards.
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Groundhog Day is a 1993 comedy film directed by Harold Ramis, starring Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell. It was written by Danny Rubin and Harold Ramis and based on a story by Rubin.
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In the movie "Groundhog Day," Bill Murray would awaken every morning and relive the same day. He would meet the same people and have the same conversations, and he felt that day would never end (with a cute twist it did). People involved in the Florida recount mess must feel a little like Bill Murray did. But they comfort themselves by saying there is a drop-dead date when everything has to be resolved--when the Electoral College meets to choose a president on Dec. 18. Well, maybe not if history is any guide.
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Groundhog Day has gone on to inspire many areas of pop culture. Rock band The Dismemberment Plan derived its name from dialogue spoken by the Tobolowsky character Ned Ryerson. British comedy quiz show Shooting Stars used the question "Who was the star of Groundhog Day?", to which contestant Dave Lee Travis replied "Bill Murray". Host Bob Mortimer then asked the question again and Travis answered it again, and this repeated with Travis ever more irate until he eventually understood the joke, busted up laughing and offered "The groundhog!".
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The 1993 comedy movie ''Groundhog Day (film)'' takes place in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania on this day (although the movie was actually filmed in Woodstock, Illinois). The main character (played by Bill Murray) is forced to relive the day over and over again until he can learn to give up his selfishness and become a better person. It is said to be one of the best fantasy/comedy movies of the 1990s. Starting on January 9, 2006, the Pennsylvania Tourism Office presents installments of the Groundhog 202 film series, a promotion that plays off ''The Shining (film)''. The film shows what happens when the Groundhog, stuck inside for 364 days, goes mad with cabin fever.
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Phil Connors, a sarcastic Pittsburgh weatherman (Bill Murray), reluctantly travels to Punxsutawney, Penn., with his producer (Andie McDowell) and his cameraman (Chris Elliot) to cover the Groundhog Day festivities. The day turns out to be one of the worst of his life, but his nightmare has just begun: He wakes up the next morning to discover that it's Groundhog Day again. The same thing happens the next day and the next day and the day after that. Phil realizes he's stuck in time and it's driving him crazy. No matter what he tries, including suicide, his day begins anew. But by repeating the day, Phil learns from his mistakes and uses the unique opportunity to make the moves on the lovely Rita, his producer.
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