I can watch this again and again and again...

Rating: 10/10 (23 November 2006)

Long before the internet and IMDb there was this movie that I simply adored. Imagine my pleasure to learn that this movie occupies a spot on the top #250. A true testament to its appeal.
I have many favorite movies that are comedies but what sets Groundhog Day apart from the rest is its message of redemption. Okay, maybe that is a message that today's post-modern moviegoers don't want to hear. But some odd coincidences with my own life endowed the movie with an unusual resonance for me personally. For example, I had taken up studying piano and Rachmaninoff's 18th Variation was one of the pieces I aspired to master (q.v. the dance at the end). I also had read many Chekhov works (q.v. Murray quoting Chekhov in one of his broadcasts from Punxsutawney).
Bottomline, if you find this movie distasteful, I can only assume that you too are stuck in your own groundhog day.