Groundhog day is a cute tradition - Reaction & Commentary - First Time Watching 

I was always fascinated that he could not save the homeless man. I wonder how many days he spent trying to save him before realizing he could not overcome death. That is a deep part of the movie to me.

One of my fav lines from this movie, "Well, what if there is no tomorrow? There wasn't one today!" lol

Such a great film. One of my favourite comedies. The guy who announced the groundhog is Bill Murray’s real life brother. The doctor in the film was the director, the late Harold Ramis.

What crazy person turns on the shower and stands underneath without adjusting the temperature? That's just madness 😂 Thank you Duaffy!

I like to think that the last day was not a "tactic." He just spent the day doing what he wanted most, to help everybody around him, and that was the most fulfilling way to spend his time.

I truck for a living and last year I was snowed in Pennsylvania on Groundhog Day 😂 when I see this movie now I totally understand Phil's frustration trying to leave.

I must have seen this movie 50 or 60 times... it's one of Bill Murray's best performances. The comedic timing, the dry whit.. evey line is crafted, every scene brilliant

Anyone else love it when Duaffy does The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly music? 🤣

What gets him out is that he ultimately changes himself in that as he states that last night with Rita, he's finally happy with who he is.

For me it's a spiritual theme. He has to give up his ego and attachments and be a good person simply because it's the right thing to do. His internal change was shown to be complete when he was accepted by everyone, including his producer. Then he could proceed to the next day. Great film! 🎥🎬

"Only a person who wanted to find the stone, find it but not use it, would be able to get it".

There is a video here on RU-vid where they analyzed how long he had been in the time loop by breaking down how long it would take the average person to learn all of the skills and things that Phil did in the movie (learning piano, learning how to ice sculpt, learning French, etc). If I remember correctly they calculated that he was in the time loop for approximately 36 years. As for how he broke the curse? I think that he broke the curse by genuinely wanting to be a better person. When he was acting nice but was being insincere because he was doing it just to try and break the curse, he was still stuck in the time loop. But when he was being nice just for the sake of being nice, THAT'S when the curse broke. But the ultimate test of his sincerity was whether or not Rita would genuinely fall in love with him. Which she did, which is when the curse was ultimately broken. At least that's my theory.

It's implied that he did try staying awake when he tells Rita that it happens at 6am, rather than midnight. He must have tried it!

People have tried estimating how long he was stuck in the loop. Low estimates put it at 8 years, high estimates at 40 years

There was an interview with the guy who made the film, and he reasoned out that, for Phil to learn all those skills to the level of mastery he did, factoring in time to sleep, time to familiarize himself with everyone in the town as well as he does, days spent trying to kill himself, some days spent just doing nothing.... he figured Phil was stuck in the time loop 20-30 years

in case people were wondering how long the loop lasted... here's what the director estimated it as “It takes at least 10 years to get good at anything,” said Ramis, “and allotting for the down time and misguided years he spent, it had to be more like 30 or 40 years.”

Fun fact, the guy in the top hat presenting the groundhog and reading groundhog-ese, is Bill's real-life brother.

This is great. My friends and I loved this movie so much that for years we had an annual “Groundhog Day party” in February, which was actually the exact same party two nights in a row, with the same music, people and food each night, everyone asked to wear the same clothes on both nights, there was a bachelor auction, etc etc. It was always very fun, though on the second night attendance was of course always a lot lower. Maybe the people who didn’t make it “escaped the loop”...

At 19:32 - when they kiss and it starts snowing - I think that's the moment that the spell was broken. (Also, you'd think Phil, having lived that day so many times, would notice it snowing when it hadn't before. He does look up and seem to notice the snow but somehow it doesn't register with him that's something is different.)

This is a great movie. 🍿 For a comedian to show their true acting chops by playing a serious role is genius. Try Will Farrell's, Stranger Than Fiction for something great. 😊 Luv ya 💕

The bees are stirring-birds are on the wing- And Winter slumbering in the open air, Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring!

One of my favorite movies ever. I watch it every year on the actual Groundhog Day.

Ramis once said Phil was trapped in Groundhog Day for 10 years, although originally it was going to be 10,000yrs.

1:42 Avengers Endgame Part 2/2 is very different than I remember it :D This was one of my favorite movies as a kid. Glad you got to watch it!

There is no greater testament to human philosophy. I watch this movie every February 2nd.

This is my favorite movie ever. I watch this every year on February 2nd. It's actually based on Buddhism & attaining enlightenment. Live in the moment, strive for perfection in yourself & help your fellow humans.

From listening to the commentary on the DVD, the book explains that a woman that Phil had tricked in having sex had put a curse on him. That is why he lived the same day over and over. When he carved her face in ice and she kissed him, it started to snow. Evidently that was the moment that the curse was broken. Because at that moment he became someone that Rita could fall in love with.

Your 'Watching' title card at the start says Endgame 2/2. :)

This movie was the first to do this concept which when it is shown in a movie people call it "Groundhog day" so it is innovative movie to start a new style on telling a story... I seen so many different version of this time loop in movies since this movie which was also displayed in Marvel Dr. Strange movie and Agents of SHIELD last season episode.

In the original screenplay, this time loop took 10,000 yrs to get out of; the re-write too, about ten yrs. The doctor in the movie wrote the movie, and starred with Bill Murry also in Ghost Busters.

Canadas oldest Groundhog Day Festival, is in my home town of *Wiarton, Ontario. a little tourist town on the shores of the beautiful Bruce Peninsula, between Lake Huron and Georgian Bay (in fact a large portion of this part of Southern Ontario is a huge tourist draw...especially in the summer and fall) **edit** a little bit of Groundhog Day facts; www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/groundhog-day Wiartons festival mascot is named *"Wiarton Willie".* And of the myriad of various mascots internationally, Willie is the only *Albino*

Andie Mcdowell's first movie role was Jane in "Greystoke: The Legend Of Tarzan". The director replaced her voice with that of Glenn Close.

Someone's probably mentioned it, but the 4:14 AM from like day 2 or 3 was him trying to stay awake 24 hours.

I agree with all you said about changing his heart, but you missed one important thing. I think once he accepted this may just be his life from now on he started changing himself outwardly as well as inwardly. He learned new things. Piano, ice sculpture, some medical knowledge, and more to grow all round. I agree it had to be "true love", not just curiosity, but also the first night she stayed they didn't make love. [which if it did happen would have just been having sex]. It was true love, and I think "love-making" they finally had that broke the spell. And for her to fall in love with him his kindness was needed but also his skills as a musician [remember?] and the other learned abilities that made it happen for her. But most importantly he bettered himself just to be more skilled at stuff because it was for himself, it wasn't to get her. [if you know what I'm saying] so it was true attraction and love at the end from his acceptance of his current life situation [living the same day over and over again] and so a real true acceptance of himself! Finally when he could love himself she could truly love him too and both could accept the love given to and for each other [not just her truly loving him]. I hope that makes a good theory. Basically he became a man he liked [not miserable like he was] and only then could it flow both ways. That came from acceptance of his situation, and possibly this experience was the only way he was ever going to grow as a man as he did. I don't think you would go crazy for good. I think you [or anyone] would get depressed or go crazy for awhile, but then you would do probably the same thing he did; Grow as an individual. When you think about it we live groundhog day each day of our lives. We go to sleep and wake up in the same body we had when we went to sleep and the same mind, and the same world circumstance we were in as we fell asleep. We have to keep living another day in and from the same place we left off when we went to sleep. The only difference is the repetitiveness of the actual same day. Otherwise we are all living a ground hog day existence. [just we change the next day a little each time from where we were and that's what he did to the one day he had. He just started living normally, changing each day of his repeat day a little till he made the last day of that day as best as he could make it] Love your questions. Finally I just had to answer some. Hope I made some sense. [sorry for the long comment] [oh, and I bet it was exactly a year, just because it's poetic that way] ;]

He learned the meaning of unconditional love. Mega-desire had no power to change the loop.

0:49 Edge of Tomorrow & Source Code ? I love the ending with the radio playing I Got You Babe again and you ask yourself: What else shall he do? But then it's just coincidence. 😄

Bill Murray tends to play a jerk with a hidden heart of gold. He has a lot of great movies in his filmography. Stripes, Scrooged, The Ghostbuster films, etc.

8:47 Morning newscasters have to go to bed super early since they have to be at work at like 4am.

I know this is three months late, but I hope you see this... You hit the nail right on the head when you pointed out the one difference he had on the "last night". Only then had he become COMPLETELY trustworthy to Rita, who's criteria for true love/trust was the "standard" for his OWN, complete transformation. I agree that in real life, life truly begins at that moment like when he was in the diner and made a "turn around" (repented). That certainly would have been enough... But as a hollywood fantasy, the idea of perfection ie. "getting it right" at the end, simply made it fun and WAY more entertaining and not to be taken as any kind of message or parallel to real life. What WAS pertinent to real life, ofcourse, was all the great life/love and social lessons throughout! Amazing... I also thought it was cool how it seemed to take an equal amount of time to get to total despair, and then to become completely whole (perfect?). Fantastic movie! This is one of my all time favorites and you made it make way better sense for me! Thanks! Jay

One of my all time favourite films. In the movie it isn't made that clear, but apparently according to the original story he was actually stuck in that one day for thousands of years and most of it he was insane and killed himself a lot, before he saw the light and started to change for the better

A very nice variation on the time loop story is "The Map of Tiny Perfect Things", which came out in February on Netflix.

one of my favorite touches in this movie is when he kills himself by getting ran-over, he perfectly mimics the horn of the car running him over, which mean not only did he kill himself in all those different ways, he tried the exact same methods multiple times.

Groundhog Day is a classic. A brilliant movie. Bill Murray at his best. I believe towards the end of the movie his character Phil begins to understand why he is reliving Groundhog Day over and over again and that he has to change and become a better person. Phil screaming when he's in the freezing cold shower and punching Ned Ryerson are two of the funniest moments from the movie. Bill Murray shows in the movie that he's not just funny, he can be good dramatic actor and his acting in the scene where he tells Rita whilst she is asleep on the bed next to him that he loves her was beautiful. How can you not love Groundhog Day. It's a classic comedy with a original premise and it's Bill Murray at his best.

I remember seeing online somebody did the math and he was in that same groundhog day for 34 years.

According to Harold Ramis, in the original script Phil spent 10,000 years reliving the same day over. And over. And over. He went mad and sane and mad and sane countless times. He murdered everyone in town. He killed himself in every way he could think of.

This is a story of Redemption .

Great Movie . Bill Murray is great comedian . The actor who plays the mayor of the town is Bill Murray real brother .You should see Bill Murray in Ghostbusters movies.

Duaffy I recommend if you liked this movie you might like happy death day it’s a movie about this girl who gets kill on her birthday and she has to relive it until she figures out who her killer is it one of my favorite movies I think you’ll enjoy if you haven’t seen it already💙💙

The groundhog handler was Brian Doyle-Murray, Bill’s brother, who appears in many of his movies.

"Just for that you're going to wake up tomorrow. You know that, right? Oh, no, you don;t. haha ha ha" So sweet, but there is an iron fist in that velvet glove. I love it. Nobody gets hurt - Actually, there was a controversy over whether Staten Island Chuck died from injuries from its escape attempt in 2014. In 2009 it bit the Mayor of New York.

A couple facts: 1. So someone worked it out that it was around 30 or 40 years that he spent in that town every day. 2. They removed it from the film BUT, the reason Phil spent all that time on the same day is because he broke up with a girl over the phone after she said she loved him, he said "There's no such thing as true love" so she used witchy stuff to curse him to live the same day over and over till he finds true love as a cruel irony for him not believing.

You may want to watch Bill Murray in Scrooged. It's based on Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol".

Fun fact about the actor who plays Buster Green, Brian Doyle Murray (Bill Murray’s brother) does the Flying Dutchman voice on Spongebob.

I love that my city got a mention in the movie. The waitress at the diner lived most of her time in Erie. Erie, Pennsylvania

People have estimated Phil spent a minimum of 34 years living that same day.

Groundhog Day, what a movie! A real event in the real world. A weather-forecasting-animal-event, brought to america by the Pennsylvania dutch (Germans speaking deutsch not dutch like the Netherlanders). In the original it was called "badger Day" (Dachstag). But there were no badgers in Pennsylvania back in the days, so the groundhog got the job.

According to director Harold Raimis, Phil lived the same day for 10,000 years so yeah his will not to go completely insane is incredible.

It's been estimated that he lived this day for about 40 years.

Because of lockdown I now know what Groundhog Day actually feels like😳. For me I plan to be a better person coming out of lockdown then I was going in.

This is in my top five of all time. Love everything about this movie. The comedy the love story the way his character becomes such a different person from where he started

Director and fellow Ghostbuster Harold Ramis originally stated that he thought Murray’s character had been stuck in Punxsutawney for ten years, however in 2009 he admitted the estimate was far too short. “It takes at least 10 years to get good at anything,” said Ramis, “and allotting for the down time and misguided years he spent, it had to be more like 30 or 40 years.”

I believe he was trapped in the loop for thousand of years.

So the thing with this film right. Never tells you how long he's there. But it is revealed in some commentary that he's stuck there for like 33 years in that single day. Long long time

I think the "click" for him was the old man. Her rejection of him after so many tries was a wakeup call that the problem was with himself. Then, the old man dying magnified his ability to feel empathy for others. He probably related to the old man in this way... the old man is standing on the street corner, or hobbling down the alley... nobody sees him, nobody acknowledges him... he's an outsider and alone... like Phil is, because he's alone in repeating this day. In trying to save the old man, he's trying to save himself. it's almost like he goes through the stages of grief and ends up at acceptance. And when he accepts, he steps out of the way and perhaps for the first time sees the lives of the people around him. He can't fix himself... maybe he can fix them. He certainly has the time.

I have the same reaction to that last line. From her point of view she's known him for about 48 hours... As for how long he was stuck in the same day, the director Harold Ramis (the guy who did his brain scan) said that he'd been stuck there for 10 years but later changed his mind and said he'd been there for 30-40 years because 10 years wasn't long enough to become really good at so many things.

Phil kept calling other women "Rita" from early on. Her beautiful personality had effected him and he knew in his heart that she was special. He tried to trick her, but she always detected his dishonesty. When Phil finally became a person worthy of Rita's love, the curse was ended and he could be happy as a better man.

I actually saw this in the theatre when I was a kid and I still use, "Don't drive angry!" ;-)

You do not have to be in a time loop to experience almost everything that Phil did in his life. I would hope that people that go through life in the manner the story tells will become as compassionate and caring simply for the sake of having or becoming that character and not for an ulterior motive.

- You're getting out of it ... to get out for good.. "Let's live here" - What?

I have attended Groundhog Day in Punxsutawney on 3 years. It is a lot of fun and if you ever have the chance I highly suggest you attend in person. As for how long he was in the time loop, the prevailing theory is 30-40 years. Also I would suggest you watch the movie "Premature."

Some philosophers would say that your life's difficult events repeat over and over (lol, not 1 day) until you learn the lesson you need to learn, whatever that is.

I did a lot of reading up on this because it is one of my favorite movies and according to what I read he spent 33 years in that one day

someone did the calculation and he spends 12,395 days trapped in Punxsutawney on Groundhog Day. This translates to 33 years and 350 days by the way, or other calculations give it 8 years reliving the same day

This movie, and The Shawshank Redemption, are the best movies of the 1990s.

Actually the day resets every time at 06:00 hours, whether he goes to sleep, stays awake, or even dies. The reset destination just happens to be him waking up to the alarm clock, no matter what he does. I think on the third loop or so he breaks the pen and stays awake and it doesn't make a difference.

It's hard to remember in this, he just met Rita the day before. I find it interesting to keep that in mind while watching the movie.

Each day is a new day and a new opportunity for you to be a better you than you were the day before. Andie MacDowell is so beautiful with her flawless features. Have this on DVD and watch it every February 2nd. The man playing the doctor was Harold Ramis (R.I.P.). ✌❤🌹

The Mayor (and the person he does the Heimlich maneuver to) is Bill Murray's brother. And, the doctor is Harold Ramos, the director of the movie.

What if Phil died in the original day, and he found himself in the multi-verse version of an afterlife - he reawakens in the point of view of a version of himself who did not die unexpectedly (and has a Boltzmann brain version of the old him). His 'instantiation' is a mini-multiverse version of eternity of either hellish repetition (literally trapped in one of his least favorite places in the world) or a redemption. Once he learns his life lesson, he is released to his personal heaven: Life with his love, in a place he may have lived the equivalent of thousands of years. He may be the best possible version of himself now. He has become an angel.

I think a version of the script implies he was reliving ground hog day for hundreds of years!

I think this does happen to all of us. Sure, we don't get the exact same day, but we all have the opportunity each day to make the world better for everyone, make amends for our past, and learn to accept the inevitable and care for others while we have them.

This is one of my favorite Bill Murray movies including the movie called what about Bob ! is another good one !

I think that it was that he just accepted that this was his life now: the same day and he set out to make the best of it and of himself.

15:19 😂"nice" sounded like Borat. Ps I love your flowery top.

There has been many estimated over the years. However, this is based on a story that lasted 10,000 years, so that is the generally accepted time.

My favorite conceit of the film is that God is not supernatural, he's just been around long enough to know where everything is. Best. Leo.

💯% Agree with your interpretation/reaction..Just wonderful

Just FYI, groundhog day is real. It's a sort of holiday in that town in the USA. :) There is a clip on RU-vid, trying to calculate how many days Phil passes through this movie. You can search it if you want.

I think I read somewhere that someone calculated how long it would take to learn to do all the things he does in this film. I believe it was over 30 years.

I believe that it was stated somewhere that Phil spent around 10 thousand years in the loop.

You should see "Palm Springs". It's a recent movie that is sort of a modern take on "Groundhog Day"

The director has said that in order to keep track of how many days he was stuck, he'd read one page of a book once a day. But after awhile, he just gave up.

So someone actually calculated how long he's been reliving Groundhog Day. It came out to over 12 years.

I believe it was estimated that he spent 10 to 20 years reliving the same day.

Fun Fact: The guy who plays Buster is Bill Murray's older brother

9:28 The doctor is played by the director Harold Ramis RIP.

The writers said that he lived this day 10,000 times which is over 30 years.

7:47 you got the whole premise the earliest in the movie of almost any reactor I've seen...hahaha

Oh the ground hog guy the mayor of the town is Bill's brother .

I'd have set the alarm for 5:55 am, then I'd only have to stay awake for 5 min to see what happened at 6 am.