It’s also on AMC at 12:30 AM on Sunday.
Groundhog Day is so much more than a comedy.
Having Bill Murray play Phil was the perfect choice.
The role was originally offered to Tom Hanks who wisely declined to make A League Of Their Own.
It’s not that Hanks would have been bad at all.
Most importantly, you believe it.
Plus, Hanks ended up doing just fine.
Bill Murray is the best comedic actor of my life.
His movie career is obviously incredible but he also had the greatest season in Saturday Night Live history.
It was an incredible run.
It sounds like the making of this movie was a mess.
Old friends Murray and director Harold Ramis fought bitterly on set.
Murray wanted the movie to be more cynical and about how people don’t really change.
Ramis wanted (and got) a movie that is more comedic and about love and redemption.
The bitterness between the two didn’t end once the movie wrapped.
They didn’t speak again until right before Ramis died in 2014.
Eventually, Bill just completely shut my dad out…for the next twenty-plus years."
The supporting cast and town itself make the movie feel so real.
Ned Ryerson feels like someone you would kinda want to punch in the face.
When Phil realizes that he can’t save that homeless man from dying, it hits hard.
As brilliant as Murray is in this, Ramis equals that with how well this is directed.
It also couldn’t have been easy dealing with Murray during this shoot.
He was throwing temper tantrums left and right.
It was also brutally cold with the temperatures most days around 20 degrees.
I don’t think this is the funniest comedy of the 1990’s.
That’s Office Space.
But this is the comedy that makes me think the most.
From simpler questions like ‘What would it be like living the same day over and over?’
to more philosophical ones like ‘How hard is it to truly become better versions of ourselves?’
Not only that but it’s also just funny as fuck.
That makes for a pretty great movie in my mind as well as the best comedy of the decade.
The Silence Of The Lambs
8.
The Sixth Sense
10.
A Few Good Men
14.
The Truman Show
16.
There’s Something About Mary
20.
Schindler’s List
22.
Saving Private Ryan
25.
Dumb & Dumber
27.
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
31.
Out Of Sight
36.
Carlito’s Way
37.
Wayne’s World
45.
Back To The Future Part III
47.
A Bronx Tale
48.
The People Vs. Larry Flynt
49.
Eyes Wide Shut
50.
The Green Mile
54.
Man On The Moon
55.
Boyz N The Hood
56.
Grosse Pointe Blank
57.
The Talented Mr. Ripley
63.
The Usual Suspects
65.
In The Line Of Fire
66.
My Cousin Vinny
67.
The River Wild
79.
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?
Stir Of Echoes
82.
Mission: Impossible
83.
For Love Of The Game
86.
Being John Malkovich
87.
Men In Black
88.
Glengarry Glen Ross
92.
Die Hard With A Vengeance
93.
The Blair Witch Project
94.
Any Given Sunday
99.
The Wedding Singer
100.
