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- Asked by The New York Times about the existential questions raised by “Groundhog Day” – and competing interpretations of the film’s meaning – he mentioned that he didn’t practice any religion himself. ”Although I am wearing meditation beads on my wrist,” he noted. ”But that’s because I’m on a Buddhist diet.
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Feb 3, 2023 · In Illinois, another rabbi invited the film’s director, Harold Ramis, to speak at his synagogue several times before Ramis’s 2014 death. In the decades since its release, the beloved comedy, which hit theaters 30 years ago this week, has enjoyed a remarkable religious afterlife.
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The director Harold Ramis didn't intend for his movie Groundhog Day to be heralded by religious thinkers as an example of how to live life, but that's exactly what happened after it was...
Feb 25, 2014 · In this video from several years ago — you can watch it here — that has Ramis talking about the cultural impact of “Groundhog Day,” he compared his 1993 existential comedy starring Bill Murray...
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May 6, 2024 · Ramis suffered with the disease for years, and when it was known that he wasn't going to make it, Bill Murray's brother, Brian Doyle Murray (who also has a small role in Groundhog Day), told Bill ...
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Buddhist, Christian, and Jewish scholars have analyzed the film as a religious allegory. Groundhog Day is also credited with having ushered in mainstream acceptance of comedy films with fantasy-genre elements. In 2006, the United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry.