A weather man is reluctantly sent to cover a story about a weather forecasting “rat” (as he calls it). This is his fourth year on the story, and he makes no effort to hide his frustration. On awaking the ‘following’ day he discovers that it’s Groundhog Day again, and again, and again. First he uses this to his advantage, then comes the realisation that he is doomed to spend the rest of eternity in the same place, seeing the same people do the same thing EVERY day.
STARRING
Bill Murray
Andie MacDowell
Chris Elliott
Stephen Tobolowsky
Brian Doyle-Murray
Marita Geraghty
Angela Paton
Rick Ducommun
Rick Overton
Robin Duke
Carol Bivins
Willie Garson
Ken Hudson Campbell
Les Podewell
Rod Sell
WRITER
Danny Rubin
Harold Ramis
MUSIC
George Fenton
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
George Fenton
SOUND
George H. Anderson
FILM EDITING
Pembroke J. Herring
PRODUCTION
Trevor Albert
C.O. Erickson
Harold Ramis
Whitney White
DISTRIBUTION
Sony
Harold Ramis
Born on November 21, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois, Harold Allen Ramis got his start in comedy as Playboy magazine’s joke editor and reviewer. In 1969, he joined Chicago’s Second City’s Improvisational Theatre Troupe before moving to New York to help write and perform in “The National Lampoon Show” with other Second City graduates including John Belushi, Gilda Radner and Bill Murray. By 1976, he was head writer and a regular performer on the top Canadian comedy series Second City TV (1976).
His Hollywood debut came when he collaborated on the script for National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978) which was produced by Ivan Reitman. After that, he worked as writer with Ivan as producer on Meatballs (1979), Stripes (1981), Ghost Busters (1984) and Ghostbusters II (1989) and acted in the latter three. Harold Ramis died on February 24, 2014 at age 69 from complications of autoimmune inflammatory vasculitis.
FILMOGRAPHY
2009 : YEAR ONE
2007 : ATLANTA (TV Movie)
2006 : THE OFFICE (TV Series) (4 episodes)
2006 : THE ICE HARVEST : ALTERNATIVE ENDINGS
2005 : THE ICE HARVEST
2002 : ANALYZE THAT
2000 : BEDAZZLED
1999 : ANALYZE THIS
1996 : MULTIPLICITY
1995 : STUART SAVES HIS FAMILY
1993 : GROUNDHOG DAY
1986 : CLUB PARADISE
1983 : NATIONAL LAMPOON’S VACATION
1980 : CADDYSHACK