How Long Does Bill Murray Spend in Groundhog Day?

Its one of my favorite movies.

I always asked myself that, i also wondered when he´d be frustrated enough to kill himself, altough the movie wasn´t aimed in that direction of course.

so it takes approx. 8 years to change from a asshole to someone a woman can love? phew!

oh sry, I completely forgot, he actually tried to kill himself, but the space-time loop always placed him at exact point in time.

wasnt it 1000 years in the original script?

Site is dead.

Link doesn't work anymore :(

From the DVD EXTRAS it could have been 10,000 years. Yes I did watch it very cool!

apparently counting the time in groundhog day is against the site TOS...who knew?

The Link doesn't work anymore because the Time Loop is broken and Bill is a free-loving Man... Man!

Found a working link from the digg mirror deal: http://rorr.im/digg.com/movies/how_long_does_bill_murray_spend_trapped_in_groundhog_day/

I remember reading that the original plan was to have him repeating for about 10000 years. But they figured it was more around erm.. something.. gosh.. 10? I think? Or maybe longer.. *shrugs*

I've been married for 16 years and my wife still calls me an asshole. Obviously this movie takes place over 3 or 4 centuries...

rofl Kevin C

hilarious comments!

Who even thought "let's figure this out?" geez!

actually, the screenwriter said (in the commentary for the DVD) the timeline was more like thousands of years. To learn everything that each individual person in the town is doing (remember he knew the boy was going to fall out of three), plus learning piano, plus ice sculpture, plus so many other things would take a lifetime of repeated days.

The whole movie is very kabalistic in principle. Forget about doing the things that make only yourself happy (eating donuts, smoking, tricking women into having sex with you). Do stuff that makes other people happy and in turn, you'll be happy too.

I did not see this film until last christmas and I was pleasantly surprised