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GROUNDHOG GETS ITS DAY Fifteen years after its release, the Bill Murray comedy still casts a very big shadow
Louis Goldman

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Release Date: Jan 29, 2008; Rated: PG; Genres: Comedy, Fantasy; With: Andie MacDowell and Bill Murray; Distributor: Columbia Tri-Star

Was Groundhog Day always this deep? What strikes you now isn't how simultaneously barbed and warm Bill Murray is as he lives Feb. 2 over and over, but how simultaneously bleak and hopeful this modern classic feels: Every day is cold and lonely, the film insists, yet we can still make the most of it. EXTRAS Murray is sadly (but predictably) absent; director Harold Ramis is on hand for a mini-doc and commentary, where — answering many a fan's burning question — he posits that Murray's weatherman repeats the same day ''for about 10 years.'' A-


Posted Jan 25, 2008
 

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