Groundhog Day [videorecording] / Columbia Pictures presents ; a Trevor Albert production ; a Harold Ramis film ; story by Danny Rubin ; screenplay by Danny Rubin and Harold Ramis ; produced by Trevor Albert and Harold Ramis ; directed by Harold Ramis.
Originally produced as an American motion picture in 1993. Special features: Audio commentary with director Harold Ramis; A different day: an interview with Harold Ramis [featurette] (10 min.); Groundhog Day: The Weight of Time [featurette] (25 min.); The Study of Groundhogs: A Real Life Look at Marmots [featurette] (7 min.); Deleted scenes (6 min.); Previews (4 min.). Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott, Stephen Tobolowsky, Brian Doyle-Murray, Marita Garaghty, Angela Paton, Rick Ducommun, Rick Overton, Robin Duke.
Summary:
There is an old belief that everyone is rewarded with the heaven or hell that he deserves. For Phil, the nasty, self-centered weather forecaster in "Groundhog Day," that hell reveals itself one morning in the Groundhog Capitol of the USA, Punxsutawney, Pa. He has journeyed there to do a remote broadcast about his namesake, the groundhog Punxsutawney Phil, and wakes up the next morning in the same bed, with the radio playing the same song, and it gradually becomes clear to him that he is reliving precisely the same day. It will be Groundhog Day again tomorrow, too, and on the day after that. Finally, Phil begins to ponder the question "What would you do if you were stuck in one place, and everything that you did was the same, and nothing mattered?".
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