Groundhog Day
He’s having the worst day of his life… Over and over again.
Country
Production
Budget
$14 600 000
Box office
$70 906 973
Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
Harold Ramis, Trevor Albert, C.O. Erickson
Camera operator
Composer
George Fenton
Artist
David Nichols, James J. Murakami, Gary Baugh
Audition
Howard Feuer
Editing
Pembroke J. Herring
Whole Team (59)
Whole Team (59)
Short description
A cynical TV weatherman, along with his idealistic producer and his sardonic cameraman, is sent to report on Groundhog Day in the small town of Punxsutawney, where he finds himself repeating the same day over and over.
What's left behind the scenes
- Phil Connors lives February 2nd 34 times. In reality, the plot implies that there are many more of these days, but the film itself shows exactly 34 days. As Harold Ramis later admitted, the original script featured a figure of 10,000 years, but ultimately the duration of Groundhog Day amounted to about 10 years.
- The song Phil wakes up to every morning on February 2nd is "I Got You Babe" by Sonny & Cher, a popular hit from August 1965.
- In one of the scenes where Phil watches as armored cars pull up to the bank to ultimately steal a bag of money, Phil's coat is open, but in the next scene it is neatly buttoned.
- Ramis claimed that almost every time he tried to explain the meaning of a scene to Murray, he would interrupt him and ask: “Just tell me—is Phil good or Phil bad?”
- At the 7th minute of the film, the protagonist is not wearing a scarf at all, and in the next scene the scarf is already visible sticking out from under his coat.
- The filming of the scene in which the irritated Phil smashes the alarm clock to pieces did not go as expected: the clock barely cracked from Murray's blow, so the crew had to deliver the final blow with a hammer. Despite this (and it made it into the film), they never stopped singing.
- The film is based on a story by Danny Rubin.
- Groundhog Day is most widely celebrated in the small town of Punxsutawney (Pennsylvania), with a population of only 6,700 people. The arrival of spring is judged by a groundhog named Phil, who emerges from his burrow for the first time after hibernation on this day. If his shadow is visible, winter will last six more weeks, but if it isn't, the arrival of spring is near.
- The catchy song "Weatherman," which frames the film, was co-written by Harold Ramis and George Fenton.
- The movie was not filmed in Punxsutawney, but in the town of Woodstock, Illinois. Meanwhile, Bill Murray and Harold Ramis visited the actual ceremony a year before the film's release, in 1992.
- The film's release, which grossed $70.9 million at the North American box office, significantly increased public interest in Groundhog Day and the associated ceremony. In particular, 35,000 people attended the celebration in 1997 (five times the population of the town itself).
- At the same time, the film "12:01 PM" was released, using the same plot device, which, according to the recollections of its screenwriter Richard Lupoff, resulted in 6 months of legal proceedings.
- Director Harold Ramis initially planned to cast Tom Hanks in the lead role, but later admitted that Tom was “too good” for the part.
- Originally, Phil Connors' misadventures were supposed to begin because he was cursed by a former girlfriend whom he had heartlessly abandoned. But as the script was refined, this plot twist was removed.
- The first draft of the script implied that Phil Connors was stuck in Groundhog Day from the very beginning of the film. Later, Harold Ramis decided to rewrite the script to make it easier for the audience to get involved in the plot twists.
- While learning to play the piano, Phil plays Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini." This romantic theme is also used in another fantastic film, "Somewhere in Time" (1980). Bill Murray performs the initial, tentative strikes on the keys himself during his very first lesson. Having no knowledge of musical notation, he picked up the melody by ear.
- During the filming of the movie, Bill Murray sustained a production injury. He was bitten by a groundhog twice.
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