"What's so remarkable about it ... is that normally when you're writing a screenplay you try to avoid repetition. And that's the whole thing here, it's built on repetition. That's so bold. The way they get through it is to short-circuit everything, so just when you think something is going to happen that you've seen before, the film gets to it before you and changes or abbreviates it in some way. I saw it when it came out and it just took my breath away."
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1990s American filmsComedy-drama filmsHoliday fantasy filmsRomantic comedy filmsFilms directed by Harold Ramis
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Terry Jones, as quoted in "Groundhog Day: the perfect comedy, for ever" in The Guardian (7 February 2013)
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