Groundhog Day (15th Anniversary Special Edition) [Blu-ray] | ![Groundhog Day (15th Anniversary Special Edition) [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51lYClcjegL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Actors: Carol Bivins, Rick Ducommun, Robin Duke, Chris Elliott, Willie Garson
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Rating:  402 reviews
Sales Rank: 937
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Chinese (Subtitled), Korean (Subtitled), Thai (Subtitled), Arabic (Subtitled), Dutch (Subtitled), Indonesian (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Portuguese (Original Language), French (Dubbed), Portuguese (Dubbed)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: Blu-ray
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Running Time: 101 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.3 x 0.5
MPN: 043396226463
UPC: 043396226463
EAN: 0043396226463
ASIN: B001KEHAI0
Theatrical Release Date: 1993
Release Date: January 27, 2009
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Product Description
A television weatherman covering the official groundhog appearance finds his day repeating over and over and over and over.
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Bill Murray does warmth in his most consistently effective post-Stripes comedy, a romantic fantasy about a wacky weatherman forced to relive one strange day over and over again, until he gets it right. Snowed in during a road-trip expedition to watch the famous groundhog encounter his shadow, Murray falls into a time warp that is never explained but pays off so richly that it doesn't need to be. The elaborate loop-the-loop plot structure cooked up by screenwriter Danny Rubin is crystal-clear every step of the way, but it's Murray's world-class reactive timing that makes the jokes explode, and we end up looking forward to each new variation. He squeezes all the available juice out of every scene. Without forcing the issue, he makes us understand why this fly-away personality responds so intensely to the radiant sanity of the TV producer played by Andie MacDowell. The blissfully clueless Chris Elliott (Cabin Boy) is Murray's nudnik cameraman. --David Chute
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 Groundhog Day Blu Ray skips August 17, 2010
deb b
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Movie skipped during playing. Really disappointed. This is my husband's favorite movie and we were really looking forward to watching it.
 Groundhog day July 13, 2010
Abel B. Delarosa
0 out of 8 found this review helpful
This was a new item. Opened it to view the DVD and it will not play. It just shuts off. The DVD player reads "error". I contacted the shipper the next day and still haven't heard from them. Contacted Amazon and it is in review for refund.
We went and rented it from Blockbuster.
 There is an old belief that everyone is rewarded with the heaven or hell that he deserves June 20, 2010
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
For Phil, the nasty, self-centered weather forecaster played by Bill Murray in "Groundhog Day," that hell reveals itself one morning in the Groundhog Capitol of Punxsutawney, Pa. He has journeyed there to do a remote broadcast about his namesake, the groundhog Punxsutawney Phil, who every year informs the nation whether it will have six more weeks of winter.
Now the alarm goes off in Murray's bed & breakfast room, and he awakens to find it is . . . Groundhog Day, all over again. It will be Groundhog Day again tomorrow, too, and on the day after that.
In another sense, tomorrow will never come. Groundhog Day will repeat itself over and over and over again, apparently until the end of time, and Phil will be permanently condemned to cover it. He's trapped in some kind of time warp.
As Phil figures out the rules of his dilemma, we do, too.
His world is inhabited by the same people every day, but they don't know that Groundhog Day is repeating itself. He is the only one who can remember what happened yesterday. That gives him a certain advantage: He can, for example, find out what a woman is looking for in a man, and then the "next" day he can behave in exactly the right way to impress her.
Luckily there is a woman close at hand to practice on. She's Rita (Andie MacDowell), Phil's long-suffering producer, who has had to put up with his tantrums, demands, surliness and general lack of couth. As day follows day, Phil is gradually able to see the error of his ways, and improve his behavior until finally, to her surprise, a Groundhog Day dawns when she finally likes him.
The movie is basically a comedy, but there's an underlying dynamic that is a little more thoughtful. Like "Scrooged," Murray's dreary 1988 film, this is a movie about a grouch in the process of selfredemption: A supernatural force is showing him his weaknesses.
Another movie that comes to mind is "It's a Wonderful Life," although that film showed James Stewart how bad life would have been without his help, and this one shows Murray that people might actually have been cheerier without his contributions.
"Groundhog Day" was directed and cowritten by Harold Ramis, Murray's fellow Ghostbuster and a partner from their Second City days. The film is lovable and sweet. If "Scrooged" seemed to reflect a dour discontent, this one is more optimistic about the human race, and the Murray character is likable by the end. That's a mixed blessing, since Murray is funnier in the early scenes in which he is delivering sardonic weather reports and bitterly cursing the fate that brought him to Punxsutawney in the first place.
Formula comedies are a dime a dozen. Those based on an original idea are more rare, and "Groundhog Day," apart from everything else, is a demonstration of the way time can sometimes give us a break. Just because we're born as SOBs doesn't mean we have to live that way.
 Great Blu Ray ! June 16, 2010
Salvador Sanchez (Mexico)
The movie is Fantastic and most people will agree on that with me.
What I'm reviewing here is the quality of the BluRay, I'm totally happy about it.
I love the picture quality, great definition, deep blacks and almost zero noise for a 1995 movie.
The sound is also quite great!
A must-have!
The director outdid himself, most actors even those who don't play big parts are very good ones.
Groundhog Day DVD May 1, 2010
C. J. Freeman
My husband LOVES this movie, and I would say it is on his list of his top ten favorite movies. I enjoy it, too- it's funny, touching, and a "new classic", in my opinion.
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