I have been to Punxsutawney for Groundhog Day 4 times now. It is a lot of fun. If you ever get the chance to go I highly suggest it. As for the couple that got married, this past year there was a couple that got married on stage at the celebration, an hour or two before Phil made his weather prediction.

Phil didn't "outnice" Ned. He was hitting on him to make him go away, pretending to be gay.

i think the movie was Nominated for an Academy Award "Best Original Screenplay". I can't remember. But Bill Murray shoulda been Nominated for Best Actor in this Movie

If there are any Dutch speaking people in the comments, what does she mean when she says "ah kers" ? I'm pretty sure I'm spelling that wrong coz I tried every variation & google translate ain't helping either...

@@merriammerkabah408 It's eikes. It means yuk.

Perfect timing.😎

WoW😁...Hey watch What about Bob?...other Murray classic

It's been my favorite of his movies...

This is definitely a coincidence that you're watching this movie on Bill's 72nd birthday. It's definitely one of my favorite films that I try to watch every year on Groundhog Day (February 2nd). I hated this movie the very first time I watched it because of the repetition of scenes. After I watched it the 2nd time, I absolutely loved it. Most commenters below are right that Phil's time trapped in Punxsutawney is 30ish to 350 years. I read somewhere that the original script concept was his staying trapped for 10,000 years. This wouldn't have seemed believable to film-watchers so most of us go with the 30/350 concept instead. Many reactors react to this movie either on or the week of Groundhog Day. It's a funny, feel-good movie to relive again and again (and again, and again.. ..🤣🤣🤣). My classic movie suggestions this time are: "The Champ" (1931), "The Lady Vanishes" (1938), "A Night At the Opera" (1935), and "The French Connection" (1971). Good luck on the move to your new home! 📽❤️

Ugh, I go no tears or pain to feed off of, I'm gonna starve

Makes sense :)

sounds like the topical pushy insurance salesman

Ive never heard that take on it before but im now accepting that as canon.

I'd be shocked if someone doesn't read this comment and plans a D&D adventure around it...

this now lives free in my head. Thank you.

The 33 years isn’t even remotely close. The people behind the movie said it was more like 10k years.

i think somewhere in some dvd extras it was said he spent 10,000 years reliving the same day, but they cut it out because the idea of reliving the same day that long bothered most test audiences, or something of that sort

Agreed. I feel it should be much longer than 33 ~ 34 years as well. The movie hints across that he learned far more than what the scenes reveal.

A very underrated Bill Murray movie was What About Bob. It deserved alot more attention and credit than it got. It’s not even considered one of the best Bill Murray movies

Yeah this doesn't take into account how long he had fun screwing around in town, then how long his depression lasted. card throwing, ice sculpting, extensive medical training, piano, etc. etc. WAY more than 30 years.

Woodstock!! Me and a friend of mine visited that town back in February, (from Maryland) and it’s amazing how it still looks 95% the same as it did 30 years ago. It was surreal lol

Woodstock! I used to work there. I learned about the movie being filmed there years after first seeing it and now I see the landmarks around the town square when I watch it again.

Nonsense. The whole point of Groudhog's Day is a commentary on the absurd list of requirements woe-meyn have for meyn. This is how long it would take for a mayn to actually fulfill her long list of criteria that she details in the diner. Years and years later, finally he can meet the reqs of that one woe-mayn.

It's not about becoming a better person as defined by someone else. The key is in "I don't even like myself." The most disregarded sentence in the entire movie.

@@PrimeCircuit Good theory, except it didn't end when he started liking himself and changing his behavior/attitude. It ended after he qualified and "got the girl."

@@unclebounce1495 He did not first like himself and then started to change. He hated himself to death and started from zero, he changed and then began to like himself more and more. She helped him and her being there reinforced his new personality. It ended after he said "I'm happy now." the evening before with her affirming this feeling. It started snowing which he had not anticipated because there had not been snow before.

@@PrimeCircuit Relax, I was being pretty light-hearted about this. if you want to take it serious, you can believe whatever you want, but he didn't become "a good guy" or a guy who was suddenly filled with esteem and healthy values because of anything that happened that single night before. He had his dynamic personality shift/perspective shift well before then which is why the whole town loved him, why he was smiling more and more, why he was enjoying playing music and being around people and was sociable and engaging and considerate many days before the last day. He had been doing those things and dedicated to doing those things months or years before that last day when he was mapping out and fixing all the tragedies in town. His personality shift to do those things and value those things was clearly well before then - a selfish hateful person doesn't spend a year only helping others and THEN a year later suddenly becomes altruistic and content . The personality change is what caused the behavior change a year[s] prior. The only thing that happened that last day was getting her "in the bed." While she didn't sleep with him that night (likely because the studio/writer were cautioned that would seem too on the nose) but she absolutely WOULD have slept with him and actually says "why weren't you like this [secshually asssertive] last night?" Making it very clear she was open to secs the night before. The only NEW thing that had never happened repeatedly before that last day was her accepting him as a secs partner/mate. Of course he said "i'm happy" before falling asleep because he got what he wanted - he got the girl finally. That's my whole point. He had to jump through 30 years of hoops to finally get accepted by the bytsh and get her "in bed." All the profound or romantic BS regarding his mentality/emotions/perspective happened in stages well before that last day, years or decades.

"Can't have a shadow without the sun." Someone believing in that tradition probably saw a groundhog come out of its burrow on a sunny day. They probably startled it, themselves, but thought it saw its own shadow because of the sun and linked the two together lol. Cuz I just don't understand how an animal would be that afraid of its own shadow on that one day of the year.

A very underrated Bill Murray movie was “What about Bob.” It deserved alot more attention and credit than it got. It’s not even considered one of the best Bill Murray movies

Yeah my little brother was born groundhog day 1993

My fiancé Rita was born on February 2nd (and never saw this movie until she watched it with me! )

@@seanmitchell1659 very interesting lol

That Mary didn't know about checks has to be an age thing rather than a European thing, right? As I recall, debit cards became a widespread thing shortly after this movie came out. Surely other countries used bank checks also, no?

@@noodle_fc I'm not sure; all I know is that a German girl in America KZfaqr kept talking about how surprised she was to see checks. So either they died out very quickly in Europe and we are unique in having people still writing them, or they died out further back in time than they did here.

@@grife3000 It is/was very different across countries in Europe. A few years back a French teacher told me that (at the time) in France most people used checks to pay for most things. Especially paying rent and other monthly bills like power feels weird. Here in Germany we use a lot of Giro banking, direct debit, and debit cards for a really long time. Apparently this goes back to the financial crisis of 1907. Especially with Giro banking (wire transfers) and debit cards the concept is that one can only spend/transfer money people actually have in their account (although there is also some overdraft... which many Germans never use) which is the stark contrast to checks and credit cards. Personally (born in the 80s) checks were a concept I mainly knew of from American movies; I vaguely remember that my parents had some Eurochecques maybe special travelers checks for going on vacation in another country... until the early 90s. Apparently in the 2000s the Eurocheque guaratee was disbanded which finally had the significance of cheques dwindle further... which also led to said French teacher to face some issues as she was spending at least a quarter of a year in France still but worked in Germany. For credit cards my personal experience was basically the same. Until the 2010s I did not know anybody having one and did not have one either. But around that time the costs became more reasonable and especially the acceptance across Europe rose significantly.

Exactly. You live the same day over and over until you do it right. Then the world opens up to you ☯️

and about the virtue being in service to others

Except he would had died much earlier, except he couldn't kill himself. There is no particular message in this film, it just ends on a happy note.

Harold Ramis said 10,000 years. "I'm a practicing Buddhist and we believe that it takes 10,000 years to perfect the human soul. And that's the real story of Groundhog Day, the perfection of the human soul.'"

@@hafeya when he said he was god at least a thousand or two right there

Best Christmas movie!

One should only ever watch the original. James Stewart served in the Army Air Corps and the Air Force Reserve for a combined total of 27 years and retired a Major General (two star). He was a combat pilot in World War II and flew 20 high-risk missions over the course of 15 months before the wars end. He saw dozens of fellow pilots and crews killed over the skies of Europe, and worse yet - he was their commanding officer. Author Robert Matzen writes about this postwar period in the actor's career in the new nonfiction book, "Mission: Jimmy Stewart and the Fight for Europe," and said that during the course of his research, he spoke with "the guys that flew with him, who told me about the fact that he went flak-happy on a couple of occasions - which means shell shock, battle fatigue, what we now know as PTSD. He wasn't afraid of bombs or bullets. He was afraid of making a mistake and causing someone to die. That was his endless stress, and that's what ended up grounding him."

Or Alien.

I really like happy death day.

Actually, watch it around Halloween!

And Palm Springs

I mean the really scary thing is if he was a worse person. These people could perpetually be under the thumb of a complete psychopath who would torment them forever and they'd have no idea and couldn't do a thing to stop it.

When you think of it it's not just Phil who repeats the same day, the whole World/Universe does! He is the only one that realises it though.

The original script apparently said he was trapped for 10,000 years. But obviously, that was probably not accurate in the final version of the movie.

yeah ive heard 33 thrown about before!

I agree it's just a wonderful movie the way it is, but I wouldn't mind seeing a darker version of it either. I loved "The Edge of Tomorrow", too, which did have a darker setting overall but really was extremely similar in having a happy ending and being somewhat of a love story.

It can be disheartening to show up on set & be slapped all day. I wouldn't like it, & I'd like it even less if my friend thought it was funny to call for unnecessary re-takes. I have no idea what their actual disagreement was about & it's none of my business. But as an actor there's only so many things I would be willing to do for a friend to help him make a movie. Cross that line & we're gonna have issues. & They appeared to have issues after this movie. I am happy to report they were able to come together as friends again before the death of Harold Ramis & that's the only thing & what matters most.

Early drafts of the script had him state that it was 10,000 years. However people actually doing the math on how long it would take him to learn all those skills all come to a figure of 33-35 years, which the writers have since agreed sounds about right. The 10,000 years from the original script did not make it into the final script.

Thats actually based on an old Buddhist saying i believe, that it takes a man 10,000 years to perfect himself

Maybe 10,000 days instead of years because that would be 27 years

No its definitely years. Did you feel like youd perfected yourself after 27 years?

@@ImpeccableZentertainment People who have estimated how long it would take to learn some of the skills Phil learned...improve piano playing, ice sculpting, learning the names and histories of the town people, etc...put his time of reliving the same day at around 30 years, which is close enough to 10,000 days. Harold Ramis who wrote and directed the film said that in his estimate, it was probably around 30 years. Maybe in some draft of the film it says 10,000 years, but 10,000 days just seems more likely. If all you had to do every day was learn to be a better person, it really wouldn't take that long to move from what Phil was to what he became. Probably 4 or 5 years. Ten tops.