Groundhog Day (1993)

Quotes about Groundhog Day: [[w:Harold Ramis|Ramis; [change; [w:bodhisattva|bodhisattva] Phil says, “I’ve killed myself so many times, I don’t even exist anymore.” “Now,” ] comments, “Phil is ready for ].” And, typical of a Ramis film, change means Phil becomes the good guy, the ] who performs selfless acts of kindness, not manipulatively, but for their own sake. This, naturally, wins him the love of the whole town, and, naturally, of Rita. And not surprisingly, he comes to love himself. “No matter what happens tomorrow, or for the rest of my life,” Phil tells Rita, “I’m happy now because I love you.” Sure, it's a Hollywood ending. But Ramis would have it no other way. In his commentary on the fifteenth anniversary DVD, he confessed: “I’m such a sap. I actually believe in this stuff. The movie is quite sincere.”

Quotes about Groundhog Day: [[w:Harold Ramis|Ramis; [w:Danny Rubin|Danny Rubin; [Buddhism|Buddhist; [Buddha; [Christianity|Christian; [Judaism|Jewish] Groundhog Day, the 1993 film ] directed and co-wrote with ], became an underground ] classic, despite the fact that the words “Buddhist” or “]” never appear in the script, or that neither Ramis nor Rubin intended it to be Buddhist or ] or ] or any of the other denominations that say it speaks to them and for them. And despite the fact that the film is, after all, a comedy. A comedic take on Buddhism? That alone could earn merit points these days when many Buddhist meditators and scholars seem to have forgotten the light touch of numerous teachers over the centuries.