Groundhog Day: You won’t BELIEVE how long Bill Murray's Phil was trapped in the time loop
GROUNDHOG DAY saw Bill Murray’s Phil Connors trapped in a time loop, but how long for?
Groundhog Day- I'm not going to live by their rules anymore
Today marks the real life Groundhog Day, when Punxsutawney Phil, a Groundhog predicts the remaining weeks of winter at Gobbler’s Knob in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania.
In the film – which is 25 years old this year – Murray’s character, weatherman Phil, is trapped in a time loop, reliving the same day every day.
At first he just embraces it with a life of hedonism, but soon gets fed up and tries to commit suicide multiple times, only to wake up to Sonny & Cher’s I Got You Babe every morning.
Of course he eventually exits the time loop, but how long was he trapped for?
Groundhog Day: You won’t BELIEVE how long Bill Murray's Phil was trapped in the time loop
Phil was originally going to be trapped for 10,000 years
According to the Hollywood Reporter, writer and director Harold Ramis says Phil was trapped for 10 years.
However originally it was going to be 10,000 years, of forever living the same day without ageing.
Although to be really specific, website Wolf Gnards worked it out from carefully watching Groundhog Day.
According to them, Phil was trapped for eight years, eight months and 16 days.
Last year Groundhog Day came fourth in a poll of the greatest comedies ever made.
Phil tried to kill himself to escape the timeloop, but it didn't work
Phil eventually escaped the time loop after almost a decade, but the reason why remains a mystery
The BBC polled 253 film critics from 52 countries for the definitive list of the 100 greatest comedies.
Beating Groundhog Day in the top three were Annie Hall and Dr Strangelove, while Some Like It Hot came out on top.