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	Groundhog Day (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Groundhog Day is a 1993 comedy film and box office hit starring Bill Murray as Phil Connors, an egocentric Pittsburgh weatherman who, dreading his hated annual assignment covering Groundhog Day from Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, finds himself repeating the day over and over.
		Groundhog Day is a tale of self improvement, to look inside oneself and realize that the only satisfaction in life comes from turning outward and concerning yourself with others rather than concentrating solely on ones own wants and desires.
		Groundhog Day begins afresh for Connors each morning (starting with his waking up to the same song, Sonny and Cher's I Got You Babe, on his alarm clock radio), but with his (and only his) memories of previous instances of the day intact.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Groundhog_Day_(film) (1625 words)

	Independence Day (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The movie was scheduled for release on Wednesday, July 3, 1996, but due to the high level of anticipation for the film, many theaters began showing it on the evening of July 2, the same day the action in the film begins.
		In the film, Marine Corps Air Station El Toro appears to be in the middle of a deserted area, when in fact at the time of the film the base was located in the middle of densely-populated Orange County, California.
		Fans of the film counter that there is nothing wrong with nationalistic sentiment, while it's true that only the planet's most advanced state would have the potential to stand against an alien invasion, although they acknowledge that it could limit potential audiences.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Independence_Day_(movie) (2051 words)

	Independence Day (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Independence Day (film), a 1996 film starring Will Smith.
		Independence Day, an annual celebration commemorating the anniversary of a nation's assumption of independent statehood.
		Independence Day (novel), a 1994 novel by Richard Ford.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Independence_Day_(disambiguation) (143 words)

	Groundhog Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1993 comedy movie Groundhog Day takes place in Punxsutawney on this day (although the movie was actually filmed in Woodstock, Illinois).
		The film shows what happens when the Groundhog, stuck inside for 364 days, goes mad with Cabin Fever.
		Groundhog Day is a traditional festival celebrated in the United States and Canada on February 2.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Groundhog_Day (701 words)

	Fathers' Day (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fathers' Day is a 1997 comedy film that was directed by Ivan Reitman and starred Robin Williams, Billy Crystal, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Nastassja Kinski.
		In the film, a woman (Kinski) gets two former lovers (Williams and Crystal) to help her search for her runaway teenage son by telling each man that he is the father.
		It is a remake of the 1983 French film Les Compères.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fathers'_Day_(movie) (148 words)

	DVD Review: Independence Day
		"Independence Day" is a fun movie, and it knows that it isn't anything more than what it is; I think it has a good sense of humor and although there are some slow moments during the middle section, the majority of the film moves along with a rapid clip.
		I'll always remember the time I saw "Independence Day" in a local theater that was playing the film 24 hours a day during the first week.
		In case you are one of the few who has not seen this picture at this point (I'd be suprised if there are any...), "Independence Day" revolves around a band of nasty alien creatures who arrive in major ships that proceed to hover over many of the major cities across the world.
	www.currentfilm.com /dvdreviews/independencedaydvd.html (1769 words)

	INDEPENDENCE DAY
		This is a war film, plain and simple, with all the same pretty explosions and fervent patriotism that have been a part of that genre since it was invented.
		Independence Day endeared itself to the American populace simply by including this brief shot in the trailer.
		It is an important film, but not for the reasons you may expect.
	homepage.mac.com /brenhow/id4.html (709 words)

	DVD Review - Independence Day
		Although the film does have its flaws, which are mostly dramaturgic in nature, everyone who has seen it would certainly agree that it is a spectacular, bombastic, fun filled and highly entertaining ride.
		"Independence Day" is featured as a multi-story presentation on this DVD, which means you can either watch the movie’s original theatrical version or the film’s special edition cut, which features nine minutes of restored footage.
		Although "Independence Day" comes as a spectacular special edition, the most important part of the release of the movie itself and it was with anticipation that I checked out the movie.
	www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/independence_day.shtml (2060 words)

	Independence Day
		He also features in the film's most amusing scene, where he drags the now-unconscious alien across the Nevada desert in his parachute, stopping every now and again to give it a swift kicking, so pissed is he that his 4th July holiday has been ruined.
		Independence Day will be the science fiction event that captures the imagination of a generation, in the same way that Star Wars did in the 1970s and E.T. The Extra Terrestrial did in the 80s.
		While Independence Day may not be the most intellectually stimulating piece of cinema you will ever see, and though the plot doesn't stand up to close scrutiny, it is undoubtedly an incredible, fantastical ride through three momentous days in human history.
	www.moviemusicuk.us /independ.htm (1120 words)

	SALON: Movies: Independence Day
		"Independence Day" provides one, filling the Oval Office with a Gulf War fighter-pilot hero (Bill Pullman) who -- once colossal alien ships start darkening the skies of Earth-- serves as a cross between JFK during the Cuban missile crisis and Churchill during the Battle of Britain.
		One encouraging sign: The crowd I watched the film with, which sat silently as the White House and the Capitol got flattened, finally erupted with cheers at a crack about the Pentagon's $20,000 hammers.
		So when the summer blockbuster "Independence Day" comes along, with its drama of confrontation with overpoweringly hostile alien invaders, it's tempting to speculate about a millennial, species-wide death wish, or to postulate a yearning for some global challenge that might unite a squabbling humanity in some common noble endeavor.
	www.salon.com /weekly/movies960708.html (1048 words)

	Hour.ca - Film - Movie details - Independence Day
		Independence Day, sorry, ID4 is one of the most purely stoopid, brash, jingoistic pieces of celluloid garbage to ever grace the screen, yet, there's something to be said for such purity when it's thrown about with such abandon and without a whiff of irony.
		Independence Day has one of the best abbreviated titles in the history of cinema with "ID4", just in case you've forgotten that the fourth of July lands on some other date.
		When Independence Day came out everybody from around the world was talking about how great this film was.
	www.hour.ca /film/movie.aspx?iIDFilm=604&v=vo (1232 words)

	Filmtracks: Independence Day (David Arnold)
		But in the case of Independence Day, an appropriate outrage was unleashed in response to the album, primarily for two reasons: First, the film is a juggernaut in length, and therefore that one-half of unreleased material constitutes a whole CD in its own.
		While the film was a popular success rather than a critical one, almost any critic will agree that David Arnold's immense score was far superior and, in some cases, the film's saving grace.
		Independence Day: (David Arnold) As ID4 producer Dean Devlin says, you can leave it up to a Brit to write some of the most rousing and patriotic music in the history of American cinema.
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/id4.html (1529 words)

	'Independence Day' thrills, but doesn't quite hit target
		With a director like James Cameron at the helm, "Independence Day" might have been as epic on a human scale as it is on a sheerly physical one, but there's little use crying over spilled milk.
		The visual effects shots in "Independence Day," especially those during the initial alien attack, deserve special mention for their unflinching detail and seeming reality when depicting such catastrophic events as the destruction of the White House and the Empire State Building.
		As "Independence Day" begins, we are introduced to an assortment of characters in an Altman-esque cross-cutting fashion, and we then gradually proceed to determine how they are interrelated.
	www.usc.edu /student-affairs/dt/V128/N08/06-idepen.08d.html (905 words)

	`Independence Day' supplies fireworks for the Fourth
		This year's Fourth of July film fireworks are supplied by classic Bug-Eyed Monsters intent on turning America's Independence Day into Extinction Day.
		Another thing Independence Day "borrows" from other films is its rousing music soundtrack.
		Independence Day gleefully steals from countless sources: a plot from The War of the Worlds, dogfights and loyalties from Star Wars, gross-out BEMs from Alien, mass destruction from 1970s disaster movies, and government coverups from The X-Files.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/features/96/07/03/independence-day.0-0.html (722 words)

	Groundhog Day (1993)
		Everything goes as Phil expects on the first day, except he is caught in a blizzard and has to stay the night.
		Murray's character Phil learns and grows and becomes a better person during the course of the film and learns to love the town in which he felt he was trapped in.
		However if this film was just that, it would be just a normal run of the mill comedy.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0107048 (644 words)

	Plumbing the Depths of "Groundhog Day"
		Phil can learn all there is to know about her, but she has only one day in which to see him in a new light.
		Phil's situation in Groundhog Day is, in fact, that of an individual who is compelled, for an extensive length of time, to examine his own effect on other people, and to even conduct experiments of a kind.
		The core of Groundhog Day is the process by which Phil is "enlightened" and becomes a Good Man, in a kind of secular, 20th century version of the Buddhist cycle of birth, death, and rebirth.
	kflaux.com /personal/GroundhogDay.htm (1713 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Groundhog Day - A Harold Ramis Film
		The film is all about Phil Connors (Bill Murray), a weatherman from Pittburg who, each and every year, travels to Punxsutawney in Pennsylvania for the annual groundhog day ceremony.
		The groundhog day loop is so famous that almost every science fiction TV show since the film has made their own version of it.
		BBC - h2g2 - Groundhog Day - A Harold Ramis Film
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/hub/A2247879 (782 words)

	Groundhog Day (1993)
		A hilarious, brilliantly executed fable in which Murray is forced to relive one day over and over again until he gets it right, Groundhog Day gave the sardonic funnyman his best role thus far (Rushmore notwithstanding).
		Films such as Natural Born Killers and Fight Club present violence and antisocial behavior as the natural outgrowth of and solution to the soul-numbing reality of contemporary American life.
		It's only when he is forced to take each day as his last and learn to make full use of that day — to live in the moment — that he achieves a form of self-actualization.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=2226&buy=closed&Tab=reviews&CID=13 (962 words)

	The Observer Review Ryan Gilbey celebrates the phenomenon that is Groundhog Day
		Groundhog Day was not an enormous commercial hit when it opened in early 1993.
		When Groundhog Day is referred to, it is not the 2 February celebration that comes to mind, but the story of a cynical TV weatherman, Phil Connors, played by Bill Murray, who pitches up in Punxsutawney to cover the festivities.
		And it's true that Groundhog Day is responsible for the use of science-fiction conventions in romantic comedy.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,6903,1136131,00.html (1874 words)

	Touchstone Archives: Phil’s Shadow
		If the sun shone for the greater part of the day, there would be 40 more days of winter, but if the skies were overcast, there would be an early spring.
		What attracted the Times to the series was not its pageant of grave Swedish cinema but its opening feature, the 1993 romantic comedy Groundhog Day.
		Groundhog Day is the story of Phil Connors, an obnoxious weatherman at a Pittsburgh TV station who must cover the celebration of Groundhog Day in rural Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania.
	www.touchstonemag.com /docs/issues/17.3docs/17-03-012.html (2236 words)

	Fathers Day
		After church on Fathers Day, the restaurants will be filled with families taking their dads’ out for delicious meals, or many backyards across the United States will be the gathering place of families around the grill and picnic table.
		The rose was chosen as the Fathers Day flower, white for the deceased father and red for the father that is living.
		In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge supported Fathers Day as a national tradition, but it wasn’t until 1966 that President Lyndon Johnson signed a presidential proclamation ordering the third Sunday in June to be appointed as Fathers Day.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/holidays_observances/67481 (386 words)

	fathersday.html
		Fathers' Day stars Robin Williams and Billy Crystal, who are regarded as being two of the funniest men in the business, and Fathers' Day is billed as a comedy, but there sure are some pretty gritty plot elements in this film.
		Fathers' Day is a little like Billy Crystal pulling that calf out of its mother in City Slickers except that it's a boy being born, and the muck is shit and vomit, instead of birth fluid.
		Fathers' Day is slickly made, with Crystal and Williams sluicing plenty of juice out of their characters.
	www.iig.com.au /film/fathersday.html (468 words)

	The Austin Chronicle: Film Listings
		Fathers' Day is a remake of Les Comperes, minus some of the 1984 French film's plot convolutions and scenery.
		Space Jam is the kind of film that made it safe to team up megastars in such unlikely combinations as Michael Jordan and the inanimate Looney Tunes stable.
		That leaves the Fathers' Day set-up extremely weak and unbelievable as the ever-beautiful mom played by Nastassja Kinski convinces two men with whom she slept 17 years ago that each is the father of her 16-year-old son.
	www.austinchronicle.com /gyrobase/Calendar/Film?Film=oid:142488 (561 words)

	Pay Day (1922 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pay Day is an American short film made by First National Pictures that was written, directed, and starred Charlie Chaplin.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pay_Day_(1922_movie) (362 words)

	Dark Star - Film Reviews: Independence Day
		There is just one moment in the film that hints at what this could have delivered.
		Independence Day suffers from similar shortcomings that actually managed to make Stargate appear dull at times.
		The film isn't original in any sense and even I am growing weary of derivative epic action movies (SF or otherwise) featuring stunning special effects, no plot and precious little else.
	www.darkstarorg.demon.co.uk /fr0026.htm (536 words)

	INDEPENDENCE DAY
		The worst thing about the film is the fact that the humans must devise a "magical solution" to vanquish an enemy which is technologically superior.
		Although destined to be a hit despite its many flaws, "Independence Day" is too brainless to be truly satisfying.
		The best thing about the film is the hilarious performance by "Star Trek: The Next Generation" alum Brent Spiner.
	www.xmission.com:8000 /~gregorys/reviews/independ.htm (265 words)

	Independence Day
		Independence Day is a great, entertaining, big budget B-gradish popcorn film on a fine DVD and should be a strong seller in the pre-Christmas rush.
		This is the only film that I have ever seen more than once on Laserdisc, and I was always knocked out by it, apart from one aspect: the firestorms as the death rays devour the cities always looked to me to be very blocky on Laserdisc.
		Certainly this is one film that I have been awaiting for some time in Region 4, in fact since the very first Fox Home Entertainment release in Region 4, which included a little slip showing this as a future release.
	www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/IndependenceDay.asp (3611 words)

	Film Reviews - Independence Day
		many films have tried in vain to capture the epic feel of high-speed space battles and the sheer scale of interplanetary conflict; here, at last, is one which tries and succeeds.
		Altogether, the film is well suited to a young, action-loving audience who aren't going to worry about the practicality of it all; for fans of chase scenes and big explosions, it provides magnificent entertainment.
		The film is positively syrupy in its attempts to manipulate the emotions, which comes across most strongly in the patriotic, All-American speech of its President hero.
	bob.bob.bofh.org /~cube/party/f-iday.html (536 words)

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