Groundhog Day

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From: Film International
Date: 20050101
Author:Deutsch, James

Ryan Gilbey Groundhog Day (BFI Modern Classics) London: British Film Institute, 2004

EVEN WHEN IT WAS FIRST released in February 1993, Groundhog Day was regarded as much more than a romantic comedy. Newspaper and magazine reviewers at the time saw traces of Luis Bufluel, Frank Capra, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in this story of a cynical weather man who becomes stuck in time and place-specifically Groundhog Day (2 February)in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania.

Over the years, Groundhog Day's stature has grown even more, so that it has now become "one of ...

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