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Groundhog Day
Ryan Gilbey
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Description for Groundhog Day
Paperback. It is becoming clearer and clearer that 'Groundhog Day', directed by Harold Ramis, is one of the masterpieces of 1990s Hollywood cinema. Ryan Gilbey begins his account of the film with the long and unlucky gestation of the script by Danny Rubin and celebrates the inspired casting of Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell. Series: BFI Film Classics. Num Pages: 96 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 137 x 8. Weight in Grams: 176.
It is becoming clearer and clearer that Groundhog Day (1993), directed by Harold Ramis, is one of the masterpieces of 1990s Hollywood cinema. One of the first films to use a science-fiction premise as the basis for romantic comedy, it tells the story of a splenetic TV weatherman, Phil Connors (Bill Murray at his disreputable best), who finds himself repeating indefinitely one drab day in the milk-and-cookies town of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. At first glance it seems like a feel-good parable in the tradition of Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life (1943). But on closer inspection it is a deeply ambivalent ... Read more
It is becoming clearer and clearer that Groundhog Day (1993), directed by Harold Ramis, is one of the masterpieces of 1990s Hollywood cinema. One of the first films to use a science-fiction premise as the basis for romantic comedy, it tells the story of a splenetic TV weatherman, Phil Connors (Bill Murray at his disreputable best), who finds himself repeating indefinitely one drab day in the milk-and-cookies town of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. At first glance it seems like a feel-good parable in the tradition of Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life (1943). But on closer inspection it is a deeply ambivalent ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Series
BFI Film Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844570324
SKU
V9781844570324
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About Ryan Gilbey
RYAN GILBEY writes on film for the Independent, the Guardian, and Sight and Sound and is author of It Don't Worry Me (2004).
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