How Long Does Bill Murray Spend in Groundhog Day?

By Miss Cellania in Film on Aug 17, 2009 at 1:28 pm

The burning question everyone (or at least those who have seen the movie) asks: how long does Bill Murray spend trapped in a time loop in the movie Groundhog Day? Wolf Gnards took clues from the film to come up with a definitive answer of 8 years, 8 months, and 16 days. I’m glad they figured that one out. Follow the link to find out how they did it. Link -via Digg


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  1. dutchboy
    Aug 17th, 2009 at 2:05 pm

    Its one of my favorite movies.

  2. argon
    Aug 17th, 2009 at 2:23 pm

    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!

  3. argon
    Aug 17th, 2009 at 2:25 pm

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

  4. tobot
    Aug 17th, 2009 at 3:00 pm

    wasnt it 1000 years in the original script?

  5. Miocly
    Aug 17th, 2009 at 3:37 pm

    Link doesn’t work anymore :(

  6. piper
    Aug 17th, 2009 at 3:46 pm

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

  7. renee
    Aug 17th, 2009 at 3:59 pm

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

  8. Uno Momento
    Aug 17th, 2009 at 4:06 pm

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

  9. LisaL
    Aug 17th, 2009 at 6:31 pm

    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*

  10. Kevin C
    Aug 17th, 2009 at 9:00 pm

    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…

  11. Ambitious
    Aug 18th, 2009 at 3:18 pm

    hilarious comments!

    Who even thought “let’s figure this out?” geez!

  12. Jess
    Aug 18th, 2009 at 5:14 pm

    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.

  13. SenorMysterioso
    Aug 18th, 2009 at 9:07 pm

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


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