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The film locations for Groundhog Day are supposedly in Pennsylvania, but most of the film was shot in Illinois.. There’s a brief moment of scene setting in Pittsburgh, with an aerial shot of the city wedged between the the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers, as cynical TV weatherman Phil Connors (Bill Murray) and his crew head off to ‘Punxsutawney, Pa’ to cover the annual Groundhog Day The comedy classic "Groundhog Day" celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. Portions of the movie were filmed at the Nimtz Quarry in Loves Park. A prop sign in the film identifies the site as "Nimitz Limestone Quarry." Butt was charged by William Charles Construction with using a camcorder to get behind-the-scenes footage for the company Phil (Bill Murray) loses it and steals Punxsutawney Phil (the groundhog) and drives off the cliff of a gravel pit. Priceless! This is the best scene from Gro The filming location of the scene(s) was Rockford, Illinois, Groundhog Day (1993) Add scene description. Quarry I’ve been here 0 I want to LOVES PARK — The Nimtz Quarry has made its final blasts after decades of mining limestone products. The filming of a scene with comedian Bill Murray from the 1993 film “Groundhog Day.” Steve Fossett took off from this quarry on one of his failed attempts to fly around the world in a hot air balloon. Scenes from the movie "Groundhog Day" were also filmed here. The most well-known scene is the one where a suicidal Phil Connors drives off the edge of the cliff. Despite the fact that the movie Groundhog Day was based on an annual event in Pennsylvania, it was not filmed there. No, virtually all of the famous scenes were captured in a real town in Illinois and you can see what they look like today. Further, McHenry is the city where scenes for Gobbler’s Knob were shot. In Groundhog Day, Connors committed a few tragic and fatal acts as an attempt to end his repetitive days. During one of these segments, Connors drives off a cliff. This scene was shot in Nimtz Quarry. This area may be found in Loves Park. For shooting purposes, the production team of ‘Groundhog Day’ traveled to other locations across Illinois. For instance, the opening scene with the Punxsutawney sign was actually shot in the village of Algonquin. As for the scene where Phil drives his car over a cliff, it was lensed in Nimtz Quarry at 5300 Nimtz Road in Loves Park. From the 1993 movie "Groundhog Day" with Bill Murray.steal the groundhog and the chevy c10 truck and make a chase to endup jumping from a cliff on the top an So is Groundhog Day flawless? After weeks of filming the same scenes, with the same cast and background extras you would think that something would go awry. I challenge you to find a flaw. If, in celebration of the 30th anniversary, you plan to watch Groundhog Day on this Groundhog Day (February 2) see if you caught the mistakes on the list below. At the party scene at the end of the movie, Phil's piano teacher screams "That's my student!", when Phil plays the piano. This shouldn't be the case as the teacher was paid with a bag of cash Phil stole from the back of the money truck, and the day that let Phil out of the time loop was the day where he only committed virtuous acts. The Vehicles of Groundhog Day. At the beginning of the movie Groundhog Day, weatherman Phil (Bill Murray) shows up in the town Punxsutawney, PA (which was actually filmed in Woodstock, Illinois his unsuccessful suicides and self-destructive behaviors (driving off a cliff into a deep rock quarry in a stolen pickup truck (while holding absconded Phil the groundhog behind the wheel ("Don't drive angry") and spouting the line as they crashed: "It's showtime, Phil!"), electrocution with a toaster in a bathtub, stepping in front of a moving truck, swan-diving off a building, stuffing his Ever since the making of Groundhog Day in 1992, each year Woodstock residents still get together to celebrate Groundhog Day. Woodstock has its own Groundhog Day festival, complete with a dinner dance, free showings of the movie, and a walking tour of some of the sites where the movie was filmed. After begrudgingly waking to the same day after his suicide, he becomes even more suicidal. He commits suicide, immediately waking at the infamous 6:00 a.m. several times throughout the next few days. Bill Murray's classic movie Groundhog Day was filmed in Woodstock, IL. We take you on a tour of the town and show you where many scenes were filmed. Pennsylv As successful as those movies are, they all owe a lot to the original time-loop gem, Groundhog Day. The comedy stars Bill Murray as a cranky weatherman covering the annual Groundhog Day festival but finds himself waking up on the same day over and over. RELATED: 10 Of The Best Time Travel Movies Of All Time, Ranked 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.
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