The assignment is simple (150 to 200 words). Would you or would you not recommend the film, Groundhog Day, to a friend? Give your reasons clearly and please refer to the events and characters in the film in your comment.
Plot Synopsis for Groundhog Day (characters etc. at IMDB.com)
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A charming movie that also makes a person think, Groundhog Day is a movie I would heartily recommend to my friends. By starting with a seriously flawed human being, Phil Connors, the film makes its plot interesting, even though we must, as he does, experience one day repeatedly. At first, the laughs are broad—Phil repeatedly steps into the puddle, repeatedly meets his high school “friend” Ned. Once the film establishes that Phil is trapped, forced to relive February 2 over and over, and once he has gone through the easy stuff—his ability to befriend women with in-depth knowledge of her likes and dislikes for example—it becomes more interesting. Phil’s new producer, Rita, is much harder to woo. He finally comes to realize the need to change before she can love him in return. Although the movie doesn’t indicate how long it takes, a good guess is ten years! In that time, Phil learns to play piano, sculpt ice, speak French. Even a man as unlikable and self-centered as Phil can learn what matters most in life—one’s relationships with others (and what one can offer to them). Thus, I make an unreserved recommendation for all to see Groundhog Day.—202 words
Traditional “Groundhog Day” movie 1993. Phil Connors (Bill Murray) the weatherman, his producer Rita (Andie MacDowell ) and cameraman Larry (Chris Elliott)
When you tired and want to relax after a busy day, “Groundhog Day” is an excellent option. This comedy would make you laugh also think. On February 2nd a local TV station team; Phil, Rita and cameraman, goes to Pennsylvania to cover the traditional festivities of Groundhog Day. Phil unwillingly is there “I hate this place...I think is miserable.” After their report they try to return to Pittsburgh, but a snow storm impedes it; forcing them to stay in Punxsutawney.
Unexpectedly, next morning Phil realizes he’s living the same day, over and over again.... The clock awakes him to repeat the same day again and again; hopelessly he recognizes “I thought it was yesterday.” Since then, Phil experiences multiple events, desperately he tries to avoid his fate but he’s cornered in the time. The swanky guy must learn the life’s lesson on the same daytime, just since repetition is a way to learn. Bored and distressed he executes illegal actions and attempts suicide in different forms. He lives an evolution from egomania, displeasure, ostentation and gluttony to modesty, generosity and comprehension. He discovers and helps selflessly town people like the homeless. He learns, French, ice-sculpture, poetry, to play piano and more.
The most important, he sincerely conquers Rita’s love through daily actions and this truly love liberates him. Magically life has funny ways to teach to those who don’t want to learn!
“Groundhog Day” is a famous comedy movie. No matter who you are this movie can make you laugh. I would recommend to my friends. The interesting character Phil Connors can be your self. He is a weatherman. He finds himself living the same day over and over again. He is very frustrated and gets crazy ideas. He steals money, drinks driving, and suicides. But, he still wake up at same time same day. His producer, Rita, suggests him to take advantage of it to improve himself. He devotes and helps everyone as possible as he can in the town. Finally, He gets Rita’s love. Everyday life is boring. You repeat almost everything everyday until you die. It’s like “ Groundhog Day”. How can you change youself and make you happy? Better watch “Groundhog Day.”—136 words
“Groundhog Day” I enjoyed watching this movie. It’s not just because it’s a funny movie, but it’s because it’s a lesson movie. Phil, the actor of the film, stepped into a puddle frequently in the morning. He disliked doing that, but it happened accidently. Days after, he recognized the small pool of water, and avoided not to dive his leg into it again. The action here looks like a funny action, but it’s a lesson. He taught us how we should learn from our mistakes, and not to repeat them again. Phil spent most of his time hanging out with different women, taking them over to his house, not very friendly to other people, and stealing other people’s stuff. One day he was standing with one of the women, then he asked her “What would you do if today is your last day?” he asked. “Like, what do you mean?” she asked. “I mean if the world explodes after today, what you would do?” he added. “Well, I can make children, and go vacation” she answered. The reason Phil asked that woman it’s because he realized that he had spent most of his life doing nothing, so he thought that if he dies suddenly what would he leaves behind ?? That question changed the whole scene. He ceased wasting his time, and stopped hanging out with women. Then he started to guide people, and rescuing the human being lives. I would recommend my friends and my family to watch this movie because it teaches how a bad behave person can learn from his/her mistakes and become a good behave person.
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I really love this movie for it's not only a romantic comedy but also a lesson for the life. The main character, Phil Connors, disturbed and hated by the repeating of life. Every morning he was waken by the alarm clock at 6 am and started to meet the same people, speak the same words and make the same mistake – stepped into the water pool. Even he threw the alarm clock onto the ground and slammed it into pieces, the life still unchanged. He tried to get a new life by doing something crazy, over eating, or even killing himself many times but all these attempts didn’t work. Phil decided to change himself, he took piano lessons, greeted the man and woman in the hotel, donated money to the poor, toward his high school classmate warmly, and helped the people in need. Then, he found things had been changed, he would not step on the water, and he became a popular man in the small town. He even won Rita’s heart. Just like the ending of the movie, a beautiful world is waiting for you if you use a positive attitude toward everyone. This is the movie worth to watch again and again. I won’t let any friend of mine miss such a good movie. - 216 words
Phil Connors, a weatherman in Channel 9, found him was living in a same day over and over again. At beginning, Phil just wanted to escape, to get rid of this fate. But it was fruitless. Then he indulged himself to do villainy. He seduced women, got glutton; He even grabbed a bank car. Finally, he tried to kill himself to rid himself of hopeless life, whereas everything was vain. It liked there was a curse on him and he could never rid it of, forever. But for many days passed, he found nothing he can change but himself. So when he spent a day with Rita, whom he loved, he found it was better if he changed positive. Then he found a lot of delights in his life as he was positive. When he became a pianist, sculptor, and a helper to many people and many things, true love came to him. It was funny what he did at the beginning. However, it was meditative after Phil changed his character. What different among yesterday, today and tomorrow? Nothing, But difference is ourselves. Groundhog Day, a film must be watched.
Although Groundhog Day shows some events over and over like the Groundhog festival, the puddle scene and playing with snow, I would still recommend this movie to my friend. Besides the comedy and romance, the movie gives a meaningful lesson. One desire can bring much goodness in life. Phil falls in love with Rita. To make her happy, he learns different things. He learned to speak French, play piano, sculpt ice and recite poetry. He became a great helper. He helped old ladies change a car tire. He gave money and food to an old bagger man whom he ignored so many times and gave a bad attitude. In the beginning he was a flirt, but later he became a sincere person. It happens in real life: sometimes one desire can change a whole life and person.
Phil Connors (Bill Murray) did a great job in this movie. He looks very natural in all situations as a comedy man, a romantic person, a hopeless person and a crazy driver. Especially, I like the music in the Groundhog festival day. That rhythm is full of pleasure. I would recommend others to watch this movie.
I sincerely recommend the film, “Groundhog Day”, which was produced by Columbia Pictures in 1993. Phil Connors (Bill Murray) was a weatherman in Pittsburgh, forecasting the weather in a humorous manner every day. It was the fourth time he had to cover the national oldest festival, Groundhog Day, in a small town on February 2nd. Phil was disdainful of this festival, so he hurried off after the coverage. Unfortunately, he was trapped by an unexpected storm. When Phil woke up the next day, he was shocked that time had stopped at the past Groundhog Day, and all scenes of that day were replayed. He relived the same day over and over no matter how he struggled to pass the day, even committing suicide in different ways. All kinds of feelings alternatively seized Phil. “There’s no way out now,” he said to his producer Rita. Finally, it was Love that changed and saved him. I shall not go into the details of this film, but I really hope you watch it. Although we actually cannot change the past, we can do our best to live the life we love at present, and establish the future.
I honestly recommend a fascinating movie “Ground hole Day” to my friend and everyone who is board of the repetitive days. Phil Connor, a weatherman , traveled to Punxsutawney for Ground hole day, but he lodged in a same day ,December 2nd,in the small town. He tried a different way to change his life, yet committing to suicide didn’t do anything. He also tried seducing pretty ladies, stealing money, driving drunk and other crazy way, but Rita, his producer, help him to find the best shortcut way. Learning French language, playing jazz piano, sculpting ice , helping homeless people and saving choking man ,s life changed his garish boring days to golden sunny days. Phil Connor communicate to viewer heart, and let them to feel happy, romantic, board, and finally successful. “Ground hole Day" is not only a movie but also is a reality of our life in different way .If you are in boring situation in the life ,watch “Ground hole Day” to find your goals.
I would like to recommend my friend to watch the film “Groundhog Day” because it is not only a comedy film, but it is also a lesson of life.
In the movie, the mine character Phil is the weathermen. Every year he went to the small town to live report the event that celebrated “Groundhog Day” with his co-workers: producer Rita, and cameraman Larry.
Once time, he was trapped by the storm, then, he lived in Physical time Loop that felt he lived same day at February 2, and repeated to do same things. He tried to break his fairyland. He was so frustrated that he told Rita his situation that she suggested he should take advantage of it to improve himself. On the other hand, Phil loved Rita, but she didn’t have good impression for him. One day when they were sitting in the restaurant, he asked her: “what are you look for? Who is your perfect guy?” because Phil wanted to learn more Rita. After that talking, he started to learn piano and sculpt in order to meet all the Rita’s “standards”, and also he did many positive things even save some people’s life.
Finally, the film has a good ending that Phil won Rita’s heart, and rid that Groundhog Day. That is the film maker try to show us that If the person who has an aim, and strive positively to do it, he or she would reach the goal eventually. So it’s a wonderful film.
"Groundhog Day" is a lovely movie to watch.It showed how people teasing by repetitons in their lives,or the expression "deja vu."It's a quite common experience for many people,everybody can notice things happened to him or her in the past,and can happens again.For example,Pill connors in the movie suffers from the repetitions.He's haggard from everyday's activities,events repeat themselves from 6 o'clock,when the alarm turns on with a noisy music in the early morning.Same behaviours each single day from wake up to cover the festival,even he meets the same people everyday this is really boring,but all these scenes in the movie include too much laughings.Furethermore,the movie is made in 1993,but moments in the film are not too far from our daily life.It's clear that everything has an end,and the end of this movie was great.Phil found a way to break the routine,he decided to change himself to the better.He learned the french,also how to play piano.the funniest thing when Phil decided to help other people.After that,phil became loved by his girlfriend Rita and his life changed to be positive 180 degree.For me,I like to recommend this movie to my friends,not only because it's funny,but also cause I got an important message it is: When our life not going through,it's important to change some situations to find the happiness.
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I really enjoyed watching the movie “Groundhog Day”, and I undoubtfully recommended this movie to some of my friends. Although I felt bored in the beginning of the movie; however, I appreciated the excitement and the joyful scenes at the end. The circumstances that the actor “Phil Connors” was involved every morning at the same time were very different than I expected primarily. He was a typical weatherman doing his job as he could. In the beginning, the frustration was very clear on Phil’s face because of the same work that has been doing for the fourth year. When this situation starts to go over and over, his real personality developed. The circumstances that he went through were a great lesson for him about mistakes he made in his life. He learned how to deal with it. This is a great lesson for many of us by looking again and again to our mistakes that we make every day repeatedly. We rarely look back at positive outcome of our mistakes.
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Let's say that is Friday night, a common Saturday or a relaxing Sunday and the only movie you find either on TV or at the rental movies store is Groundhog Day, I would highly recommend not to change the channel nor to put the movie back on the shelve since this is a nice movie. Groundhog is the kind of movie that will guarantee more than a laugh and also make you think about life. This is movie, tells the story about Phil Connors, a weather man who is about to have an experience that I shouldn't dare to experience. Imagine to repeat the same day over and over and over again for the next hundreds or thousands of days. During his apparently endless journey he learns lot of stuff and improves him self as a person, he learns how to play piano, to help people, to be easy going and so on. In my opinion this is a movie that must be seen at least once in a lifetime. -170 words
The movie, Groundhog Day, is fascinating and recommended friends to watch. The film created a dreamy world that you can live over and over again at the same day. Through the plot, the director gave us a sample, how to live if we can stay in the past.
The Connors, the lead role, first wanted to enjoy his life by hurting others. Then, He tried to suicide in order to escape from the repeated life. Finally, he accepted Rita’s advice, the heroine, to do something changed, and gaining the love of the lady who he loved. After watching the movie, I remembered so many things. Some of them hided in my memory so deeply, and I hardly knew when happened to me. I expected to have Connors’s opportunity when he finally got Rita’s love. To always live in the same day is a dream, but I can’t stop my brain dreaming that. It is a good movie that makes me dream a lot. I will recommend my friends to take a look this movie, and enjoy the content that is not existed in the real world.
The Groundhog Day, is a joyful movie and i strongly recommend it to my closed friends, to watch it on weekend. It reflects human’s nature’s irritation of a repetitive task for a long time. Phil Connor a weatherman is doing his job in the festivity for a couple of years. Every morning at 6.00 AM he has to wake up, a difficult job for everyone. So he acted few times in a different way. Like once he tried a suicide attempt or as a stealing man. This shows the psychological behaviour that is common in all human beings. In my opinion he was a smart man to know much more about his lover Rita’s likings .so he was successful in knowing her likings. For this way he took interest in old French poetry or ice sculpts. so he was able to win Rita’s heart. Further this movie is a clear reflection of human’s nature. It wants continuous changes. so you can make your life easy and Burdon less through many funny dealings like Phil.
I would like to introduce the movie"Groundhog Day" to my friends. The movie tries to analyze life in a humorous and exaggerate way, but with a lot of self-examination. Through the leading character’s, the weather man, different attitudes toward life, his life also changes. If he keeps positive attitude, he leads a well-organized life: remarkable performance in work, good and true relationship with friends, and win the heart of Miss charming. On the contrary, if he sticks to negative attitude, he leads a miserable life: messing up his schedule, his work, his friendship, and even relationship with female. At last, he hates himself and wants to do something thrilling to end his life. This movie gives me a lot of thought of soul-searching. No matter how hard, unknown and mysterious life seems to be, I should keep calm, wise, and energetic. In the long run, the rewards will be prosperous.
I would like to introduce the movie"Groundhog Day" to my friends. The movie tries to analyze life in a humorous and exaggerate way, but with a lot of self-examination. Through the leading character’s, the weather man, different attitudes toward life, his life also changes. If he keeps positive attitude, he leads a well-organized life: remarkable performance in work, good and true relationship with friends, and win the heart of Miss charming. On the contrary, if he sticks to negative attitude, he leads a miserable life: messing up his schedule, his work, his friendship, and even relationship with female. At last, he hates himself and wants to do something thrilling to end his life. This movie gives me a lot of thought of soul-searching. No matter how hard, unknown and mysterious life seems to be, I should keep calm, wise, and energetic. In the long run, the rewards will be prosperous.
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