Groundhog Day (film)

Directed by Harold Ramis. Written by Danny Rubin and Harold Ramis.

Phil Connors

• This is one time where television really fails to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather.

• I was in the Virgin Islands once. I met a girl. We ate lobster, drank Piña Coladas. At sunset we made love like sea otters. That was a pretty good day. Why couldn't I get that day over and over and over?

• There is no way this winter is ever going to end, as long as this groundhog keeps seeing his shadow. I don't see any other way out. He's got to be stopped. And I have to stop him.

• When Chekhov saw the long winter, he saw a winter bleak and dark and bereft of hope. Yet we know that winter is just another step in the cycle of life. But standing here among the people of Punxsutawney and basking in the warmth of their hearths and hearts, I couldn't imagine a better fate than a long and lustrous winter.

Dialogue

Ned: Phil? Phil Connors? Phil Connors, I thought that was you!

Phil: Hi, thanks for watching. BAM!!!!

Ned: Hey now, don't you tell me you don't remember me 'cause I sure as heckfire remember you.

Phil: Not a chance.

Ned: Ned... Ryerson. "Needlenose Ned"? "Ned the Head"? C'mon, buddy. Case Western High. I did the whistling belly-button trick at the high school talent show? Bing. Ned Ryerson, got the shingles real bad senior year, almost didn't graduate? Bing, again. Ned Ryerson, I dated your sister Mary Pat a couple of times until you told me not to anymore? Well?

Phil: Ned Ryerson?

Ned: BING!

Phil: Bing.

Phil: It's the same things your whole life. "Clean up your room!", "Stand up straight!", "Pick up your feet!", "Take it like a man!", "Be nice to your sister!", "Don't mix beer and wine, ever!". Oh yeah — "Don't drive on the railroad tracks!"

Gus: Eh, Phil... That's one I happen to agree with.

Rita: I'm sorry? What was that again?

Phil: I'm a god.

Rita: You're God.

Phil: I'm a god — I'm not the God, I don't think.

Rita: Because you survived a car wreck?

Phil: I didn't just survive a wreck; I wasn't just blown up yesterday. I have been stabbed, shot, poisoned, frozen, hung, electrocuted and burned.

Rita: Oh really?

Phil: [nods] Every morning I wake up without a scratch on me, not a dent in the fender: I am an immortal.

Rita: Why are you telling me this?

Phil: Because I want you to believe in me.

Rita: You're not a god. You can take my word for it; this is 12 years of Catholic school talkin'.

Phil: Do you ever have déjà vu, Mrs. Lancaster?

Mrs. Lancaster: I don't think so, but I could check with the kitchen.

Phil: What if there were no tomorrow?

Gus: No tomorrow? That would mean there would be no consequences, there would be no hangovers. We could do whatever we wanted!

Phil: [thinking] That's true. We could do...whatever we wanted.

Cast

• Bill Murray - Phil Connors
• Andie MacDowell - Rita
• Chris Elliott - Larry
• Stephen Tobolowsky - Ned Ryerson
• Brian Doyle-Murray - Buster Green
• Marita Geraghty - Nancy Taylor
• Angela Paton - Mrs. Lancaster
• Rick Ducommun - Gus
• Rick Overton - Ralph
• Robin Duke - Doris, the Waitress