Groundhog is a great movie ... Except its not quite an original story as Star Trek The Next Generation had a story in Season 5 One year BEFORE Groundhog Day, which the Enterprise is caught in a time loop. One of my fave eps too!
I lived in Woodstock Illinois where the movie was made. I would go and watch them film before and after work. Met Bill Murray. Got a picture of me in the car they ran down the rail road tracks.
That would have been AWESOME! That was a great movie, couldnt imagine watching them make it, let alone meet B.M. ... Other than inside scenes. Did they have their own back ground ppl, for like in like the street scenes, etc...or Did the ppl That lived there get to be in the background any too, like yourself? Ive NEVER even met anyone famous like, actor/singers...(I live in southern WV) wich says it all why! 😆
@@JBowman-ps2ri they hired local for the background people. Murray was actually kind of a dick but rumor has it he wasn't happy at that moment I was in the alley one night when they were filming the cop chase seen. They would wet the streets down several times a day with a truck. One day they rolled snow out into everyone's lawn on the street where the hotel was blew my mind. I seen Harold, Andi, and Chris from a sorry distance. Got a bunch of pictures if my then 4 year old daughter in the main set in town. For the life of me I couldn't understand why they took bricks out of the road in sick an odd place. The road construction light and yellow tape blocking it off may be in one of the pics I took. I currently live two miles from the gravel pit where Phil drives the truck off the cliff with little Phil
I took my daughter to premiere night at the Woodstock downtown theater. A couple of teenagers sat down in front of us and were being obnoxious. I wanted it to be a fun night for me and my daughter and didn't want it ruined at the cost of unsupervised children so I did something very Bill Murray. I leaned forward and said very quietly to them in the manliest voice I could "if you run this for me and my daughter I WILL kill you...". Hahahahahaha it worked. They moved
When I saw this in the theater, I thought it was so repetitive I would never be able to sit through it again. Over twenty-five years later, I look forward to watching this movie every year to celebrate a particular holiday. I still find it worth watching.
Kiki: That’s unfortunate. Of course, I was the same way with my ex-husband and “White Christmas”, one of his favorite movies. (I had a good reason for not wanting to have it on in the house.) I don’t think it’s why he left me, but I’m sure he’s happy he’s now free to watch it every year like he did before I banned it.
@@AnotherJenn42 WHITE CHRISTMAS here in Germany the song is and always was very populare but not the movie itself. It was banned from German TV up untill the days the private stations came up due to a TO MILITARISTIC CONTENT - refering to the Battle of the Bulge and the General´s birthday party.
I always wondered if the "I am a god" line in Groundhog Day was a callback to the Ghostbusters "are you a god" question. Like Murray finally got the chance to be a god.
I've been to Woodstock, IL. It is such a cool little town. They have plaques all over the place pointing out where scenes were filmed. I highly recommend visiting!
Can confirm that it was filmed in Woodstock Illinois. When I was a kid in high school 13+ years ago, one of my best friends family was from Woodstock Illinois. They moved close by to the town we lived in when he was young. His mother told me how Bill Murray bought the entire town of Woodstock donuts and asked them if they wanted to be extras in the movie. Each year the town of Woodstock holds a groundhog day festival to commemorate the Groundhog Day movie. P.S. it’s pronounced il-uh-noi, not il-uh-noise.
We liked the film in 93, but it wasn't until rewatching it on DVD and cable years later that everybody seemed to realize how special the film is. I could rewatch it right now! Thanks for the show.
Murray actually visited Ramis at his home and the two finally reconciled their friendship shortly before Ramis passed away. So, while they never worked together again, the ending was at least an finale of kindness between them
Murray later presented an oscar for best cinematography and after the nominees were announced, he said "We forgot one. Harold Ramis for Caddyshack, Ghostbusters and Groundhog Day", Cue applause. Class Act
@@jeffreyrigged Yes, they're both in it, but doubtful they'd been in the room together (very few games are recorded with all performers in the room together; on some animated shows, they'll sometimes do that, but not often)
@@van8ryan game script was written by dan and harold so im sure there was some kind of reconcile of the two. possibly the visit you are mentioning game isnt very old.
I think I read somewhere Bill Murray was going through a divorce or break up or something at the time. So he wasn’t in a good place, and that’s what caused a lot of problems.
They technically worked together on the Ghostbusters videogame that used one of the scripts Dan and Harold wrote for the third movie. I also heard that during all that Bill and Harold did end up making things right before Harold's death.
GOLD ??? pure DIAMANTS I say because Diamants are forever as the saying goes :::::::) Also the movie is KULT not ony because it was so well done made but also because it is so often quoted as in AKTE X and FRINGE for example.
Mad respect to Stephen Tobolowsky as Ned Ryerson. Imagine how big you have to go when you're acting across Bill Murray in a comedy and you steal the scene every time.
Based on commentary I’ve heard before, (likely on my DVD), in regards to the filming, there were apparently some record-setting, bitter cold days, as well. So some parts were, in fact, filmed in very cold weather.
I was gonna say, when he heard Ramis was incredibly ill, he went to the local police of the area he knew he lived in and asked them to find him for him, as told by his daughter in the Movies Tha Made Us on Netflix.
Ramis and Murray DID make amends on Ramis death bed. Netflix show “movies that we love” the Ghostbusters episode the last 2 mins Ramis daughter talks about Murray finding Ramis through the police dept and being driven to Ramis. Saying I love this movie is an understatement. I think it’s absolute perfection 👊🏻
Minty did get me with the double take in the intro. Murray and Ramis' feud was resolved before Ramis' death. He even paid homage to his old friend at the Oscar's the year after Ramis' death
I just saw this a couple of days ago and I had forgotten about how great it was! Bill Murray is one of my favorite comic actors and he absolutely shines in this movie! RIP Harold Ramis.
One of my top five favorite movies. It is very philosophical, and has a great message. Everyone has the same amount of time in their life. What you do with that time is what's important.
Unfortunately we don’t all have the same amount of time. But it almost doesn’t matter. Some of the worst people have had miserable & long lives & Some of the best people have done an enormous amount of good with very short lives
Doozy is right, GD is one of the great movies I saw with my kids when they were young. We still will watch it together over the holidays. Thanks for the video.
My take from this film, it shows how that we are all in our own repetitive groundhog day no matter if you have an exciting job, hobbies, friends, family, etc. Eventually we all get into a rut and everyday is truly the same and 30-40 years pass by just like that. The lesson is what Bill did in this which was to realize this and learn new things with those days and build your life skills. Or you can be like the sad sacks in the bars, etc., in this film that don't realize that and never change and they're just stuck while Bill Murray becomes a bitchin' blues piano player.
The very concept of "Groundhog Day," in of itself, auto-compels a viewer to watch this movie over and over again, and the viewer will never grow exhausted of watching the movie, regardless of how many times the viewer has already viewed the movie. The reality is, you've never actually viewed the end.
I spent a new-year’s eve in Woodstock - friends of my wife lived there. My great grandmother also lived there years before I was born. Cute little town. Oddly enough, I now live in Hollywood and one of my best friends was in this movie - and some others. He loved making this movie and had nothing but love for Bill Murray.
One of my favorite films. You mention how hot it was; and clearly there are set pictures that show Harold Ramis and crew behind the camera in summer attire, with Bill in the overcoat. But I’ve heard commentary that mention the opposite, as well, (perhaps in the early part of the filming?). The scene where Larry stops the van at Rita’s hotel and Phil is complaining that it’s a dump, before finding out he’s staying elsewhere, was one that was filmed in bitter cold weather. It’s been documented that Andie MacDowell’s face was so cold from the freezing wind and temperatures that she had trouble delivering her lines. And there were similar scenes that were obviously filmed in cold weather. So the filming clearly took place from the tail end of Winter and extreme cold, through Spring, and into the heat of Summer. It is a great movie. I saw it more than once in the theater in 1993, and I watch it every year on Groundhog Day, as well as once or twice more throughout the year. It’s fun, it’s funny, it’s heartwarming; and I never tire of watching it. I’m glad you covered this one!
I'd love to see a 10 things about "What About Bob?" someday. I always liked that one better and I think it's because I prefer seeing Bill Murray as an instigator and not the put-upon character.
Yes that would be great. Dressed up like Bob for Halloween one year. Made a boat out of a kids wagon had the life vest on screaming IM SAILING neighbor's loved it. Ah great memories
1 thing -- Bill Murray drove Richard Dryfuss crazy during filming. And the more Dryfuss got angry the more annoying Bill got. In real life Dryfuss can't stand Bill Murray anymore and haven't spoken since.😄
@@jonathanpasch6604 If true, this means casting these 2 actors in these roles was nothing but a strike of genius jobs. Although Lucy Liu may then have filled in the role as well.
@@arikwolf3777 some of us can even pronounce ovver fings correctly. I guess we are all different. I watched a doco recently that suggests mispronounced language is formed while still in our baby brain
@@godsinbox: I know, but mispronouncing Illinois is a special pet peeve of mine. My father was born and raised in Chicago. Let's just say I learned to pronounce Illinois properly early on in my life. There are a lot of words Minty says differently than me, but that's just the differences in British and American English. I can ignore those. Illinois is not one of them.
@@arikwolf3777 we (as Australians) have anglicised most native placenames and so dont profess to understand each tribes special pronunciation of 'their' space. Most first inhabitants language has been lost sadly
There was a TV movie that had the same concept of the same day repeating because a scientist kept running the same experiment with a reactor of some type. The movie was called 12:01. Every night at 12:01, the reactor would run and the day would restart. It came out the same year, 1993... The full movie is on youtube . It stars Jonathan Silverman.
I am from Punxsutawney, PA. We SO wished it would have been filmed in our Town. But the groundhog actually comes out of his stump outside of town in the woods. I guess they wanted it IN town. Well done, Minty!!!!!
The alarm was always set to 6 am. If he just turned it off and went back sleep, his co-workers would come knocking before noon. There were no cell phones back then so he couldn't just call or text em, unless he rang the station but that may be a lot of work.
Lets hope it repeats at least one more time in 2020 election..then i believe(or hope Trump swuashes this Covid-19 hoax once and for all..and we can get on with life and get the. Economy going and MAGA..MAGA2020 now more than ever..
It’s amazing how a down to earth midwestern guy from Illinois can dominate comedic movies for over 40 yrs. Amazing dramatic performances in Rushmore and Lost in Translation seal his place as one of our greatest actors.
I really enjoy your reviews and deeper looks at movies... your production value, your humor are much appreciated in these challenging times. thank you .
My wife is originally from Woodstock so we got a kick out of the scenes around her home town. We were working near Rockford, Illinois at the time and followed the filming. The gravel pit was north of Rockford because it was the only place at the time that actually had snow.
Full on addicted to your channel. Love learning random facts about movies from my childhood. Thanks for all your hard work! Now I’m off to learn all the things I don’t know about “Scrooged”!
Love that movie. Stephen Tobolowsky pays Ned Ryerson and he does a wonderful podcast. He's an incredible storyteller and has lived something of a life. GHD is an absolute classic and often garners interest religious people whom either interpret it as purgatory or samsara. It's of course influenced series like Russian Doll.
here in italy we had a remake of it in 2004 with our great funny actor and comedian Antonio Albanese, called "è già ieri" but was not a great success, much more a good remake\homage to this masterpiece.
The musical was awesome & it was showing more recently. We just saw it between Christmas & New Years at the San Francisco Playhouse (less than a block from Union Square). I'd say the musical was darker than the movie, but still a ton of fun - the printed programs had a note about the seriousness of depression and included a depression / suicide hotline #. The guy who played Phil was excellent and the music was great. My family and I still sing "Nobody Cares" to each other if someone is complaining!
You'd be correct. Murray found out Ramis was extremely ill, went and visited Harold and even brought donuts. True, it's too bad the duo never worked again professionally, but at least they made peace with one another.
Not me. I'd be convinced that the first time I did that would turn out to be the last time everything reset and I'd end up getting hit with a paternity suit. 😂
Wonderful movie & very good video, Minty. I don't live that far from Woodstock. I was always excited to know it was filmed here & a few years ago they made a Groundhogs Day Superbowl commercial here. Woodstock puts on an annual Groundhogs Day festival.
The true answer to how long Phil was stuck there is .... 1 day Yes he repeated the one day over and over, but when he breaks the loop at the end of the movie, the rest of the world is not 10 years, 30-40 years or even 10,000 years further on, the rest of the world is only 1 day further on. You have to remember that Phil was not the only one stuck in a time loop, everyone in the town was as well (as far as we see in the movie), so it's reasonable to extrapolate that to the whole world or even the whole universe.
Groundhog Day corresponds with Imbolc, the Pagan Celtic first day of spring. In fact, the Celts began all the seasons roughly six weeks earlier than modern convention, which is perhaps why, paradoxically, some calendars call the winter solstice, conventionally the first day of winter, ‘midwinter’s day’ and ditto the summer solstice as ‘midsummer’s day’. The Welsh for July is Gorffenhaf, which means ‘end of summer’ evidence that for the Welsh autumn begins in August. Similarly, Halloween, the day before November the fist is called Calngaeaf, which means winter’s eve. And THAT is why Mayday is a festival - it is the first day of Celtic summer!
Some internet geek calculated how long Phil was stuck in the time Loop. He calculated how long it would take him to become a master of each of the things that he did, like learning the piano and some of the other skills. It equaled up to about 80 years or something like that
Last year on a trip to Illinois I visited Woodstock. It was so great to visit the places where this movie was filmed as it's one of all time favorites.
I love this movie.....Also, I just found this channel and I must say your voice is soothing , your research is excellent, your jokes are good. This is an extremely entertaining channel and I'm so glad I found you!❤
The idea for this movie was taken from 1973 short story by Richard Lupoff called "12:01 pm", then adapted into a short film in 1990 starring Kurtwood Smith (Clarence Boddicker from RoboCop), which was much darker.
@@pashvonderc381 - Helen Slater was in a full feature TV film called "12:01 pm", released the same year as "Groundhog Day". But the version I was referring to was a short film (about a half hour), from 1990, that was taken directly from the short story published in 1973. The 1993 version (with Helen Slater), had the same "time bounce" premise, but was quite a different story. The '90 version (with Kurtwood Smith), was much darker and more nightmarish. More like an episode from The The Twilight Zone. So, you're half right. 😊
