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'Groundhog Day' fun facts **The movie celebrates Punxsutawney's most famous event, but it wasn't filmed there. The town represented actually is Woodstock, Ill. **There are four references to Altoona in the movie, three verbal and one on a weather map. All center around a blizzard that was supposed to hit Altoona instead of Punxsutawney. **Director Harold Ramis suggests that Bill Murray's Groundhog Day is a 1993 American fantasy comedy film directed by Harold Ramis from a screenplay by him and Danny Rubin.Starring Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, and Chris Elliott, it tells the story of a cynical television weatherman covering the annual Groundhog Day event in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, who becomes trapped in a time loop, forcing him to relive February 2 repeatedly. The 1993 Harold Ramis comedy "Groundhog Day" may not have spawned the hero-caught-in-a-time-loop genre, But a blizzard strands the news team in town overnight, and Phil is trapped in a loop Groundhog Day: Directed by Harold Ramis. With Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott, Stephen Tobolowsky. A narcissistic, self-centered weatherman finds himself in a time loop on Groundhog Day. Phil : [talking to a sleeping Rita] I think you're the kindest, sweetest, prettiest person I've ever met in my life. We're closing the road. Big blizzard moving in." Phil Connors:"What blizzard? It's a couple flakes." State Trooper:"Don't you listen to the weather? We got a major storm here." Phil Connors:"I make the weather! All this moisture coming up out of the Gulf is going to push off to the east and hit Altoona." Bill Murray stars as Phil, a TV weatherman sent to Punxsutawney, PA, to cover the Groundhog Day festival. A grinch who disdains all things provincial, Phil is predictably peeved when a blizzard forces him, his producer Rita (Andie MacDowell) and cameraman Larry (Chris Elliott) to spend a second night in the picture-postcard town. Groundhog Day (1993) clip with quote -Big blizzard moving in. -It's a couple of flakes. Yarn is the best search for video clips by quote. Find the exact moment in a TV show, movie, or music video you want to share. Easily move forward or backward to get to the perfect clip. Groundhog Day (1993) clip with quote What blizzard? It's a couple of flakes Yarn is the best search for video clips by quote. Find the exact moment in a TV show, movie, or music video you want to share. Easily move forward or backward to get to the perfect clip. Teamed with a relentlessly cheerful producer (Andie MacDowell) and a smart-aleck cameraman (Chris Elliott), TV weatherman Phil Connors (Bill Murray) is sent to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, to cover the annual Groundhog Day festivities. But on his way out of town, Phil is caught in a giant blizzard, which he failed to predict, and finds himself stuck in small-town hell. Just when things couldn't Groundhog Day (1993) Tom Milanovich as State Trooper Release Calendar Top 250 Movies Most Popular Movies Browse Movies by Genre Top Box Office Showtimes & Tickets Groundhog Day is observed on February 2, according to the local legend, a day when the groundhog comes out of hibernation, and the locals determine the season change following this event. “ [I]f the groundhog wakes and sees his shadow, we’ve got six more weeks of winter to look forward to,” Connors explains. Groundhog Day (1993) - * Phil Connors: This is pitiful. A thousand people freezing their butts off waiting to worship a rat. What a hype. Groundhog Day used to mean something in this town. They used to pull the hog out, and they used to eat it. You're hypocrites, all of you! -102- PHIL Groundhog Day, February second, also known as Candlemas Day or the Feast of the Purification of the Virgin Mary, the day Mary first came to the temple for ritual blessings following the birth of the infant Jesus, and celebrated since the Middle Ages by the sacramental lighting of candles. Hence the old Scottish couplet which long Purchase Groundhog Day on digital and stream instantly or download offline. Do you ever have deja vu? Didn't you just ask me that? Bill Murray is at his wry, wisecracking best in this riotous romantic comedy about a weatherman caught in a personal time warp on the worst day of his life. Teamed with a relentlessly cheerful producer (Andie MacDowell) and a smart-aleck cameraman (Chris Elliott Ever since the movie "Groundhog Day" came out in the early '90s, many people, especially Buddhists, feel that the movie holds some kind of profound, existential message concerning spiritual practice and the spiritual path. I doubt that the producers of the movie ever intended their lighthearted comedy to become a lesson in Buddhist teaching In the movie, Phil goes to Punxsutawney to broadcast this event with his producer, Rita, and their cameraman, Larry. The groundhog sees his shadow, and thus winter should last six more weeks. And that should be the end of it. But in fact, it's just the beginning, for Phil wakes up the next day to find.that it is Groundhog Day all over again. And you know, you can expect hazardous travel later today with that, you know, that, uh, that blizzard thing. D.J. #2: [mockingly] That blizzard - thing. That blizzard - thing. Oh, well, here's the report! The National Weather Service is calling for a "big blizzard thing!" D.J. #1: Yessss, they are. But you know, there's another reason why The last time the snowpack was this deep was 10 years ago during the Groundhog Day Blizzard of 2011.Subscribe to WISN on YouTube now for more:
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