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In the 1920s, four very different women leave dreary drizzly London and rent an italian Villa on the Mediterranean. Qty starry Olaa Najaar. Though its High powered cast includes Jack lemmon., Al Pacino Alec Baldwin and de Harris the real Star of hit tale of Slick real estate salesmen is David Mamet a electric script. A a Harp to in. A spirited film about All heroes great and Small. A Low life Dustin Loffman becomes an accidental hero when he helps Rescue the passengers of a downed Jet. Aaa Nanay Naan in Vigil pg-13. Nicolas Cage plays a commitment shy private Eye who loses i Fiancee Sarah Jessica Parker in a poker Fame to a actas card shark James Cap. A Nacal Bihar r. Romantic thriller about a female undercover cop in Pittsburgh. Starring Anne Pari Laud. Aann far s pg-13. Pm. A compulsive cop. Andy Garcia is on the Trail of a Aerial killer who goes alter Blind women. Unfortunately Garcia s Best Lead a Beautiful Blind music teacher Uma Thurman May be the next victim. Aaa a tit last of a Mohi cans r. In the 1750s, an Indian raised frontiersman Daniel Day Lewis is caught up in the bloody mayhem of the French and Indian wars when he Falls for the Beautiful daughter Madeleine Stowe of a British colonel. A a ask or. Blasball pg-13. Tom set Lack is a fading american ballplayer who is traded to the papa. Nese team to finish out his career. National Lampoon a Lavrar Waagan 1 pg-13. This action comedy stars Emilio Este vet Samuel l. Jackson Jan Lovitz Tim Curry. Kathy Ireland and William Shatner in a wild spool of the lethal weapon movies. A lavs ration a to in. Join in the Romp As our nerds Tate Donovan and Sandra Bullock Are transformed into sex objects. Malcolm x Po-13. Spike Lee s biographic drama about one of recent history s most controversial and influential Black leaders. Stars Denzel Washington and Al Freeman or. Tha mighty Pucka pm. When a selfish Yuppie Emilio list Cycz is forced to coach an inner City kids hockey team it s the dad Newt dears on ice. Aaa to Money r. Johnny Damon Wayans is a con artist trying to go straight and win the heart of a lady executive Stacey dash. A a Vimr. Saturday night r. A stand up comedian s ups and Downs Over a 50-year period. Stara Billy Crystal. A a night and Uia City r. New York talc of a nobody who wants lobe somebody and uses the sport of boxing to try to make his dreams come True. Robert de Niro and Jessica Lange a a of Mica and Man Po-13. Oary sinew and John Malkovich turn in outstanding performances As two men trying to make a Oasle living. Rac Tangar St r. Die Hardin a plane. Stars Wesley Snipes and Bruce Payne. A a a Alvar Rune through it to. Robert red Ford s version of Norman Maclean s celebrated Memoir about Fly fishing and families suffers from an excess of idealized worshipful alien lion. To Cecal Lac pg-13. A Star quarterback Iliae arc try  to play for an elite new England step school. Ills secret is exposed when a clan male becomes Calous of his Success on and off the Field. Starring Brendan Fraser. A Inglada pg-13. Romantic comedy introduces us la a Potpourri of Young men and women out on their own for the first time. Starring Matt Dillon and gorgeous Kyra Sedgwick. Aaa Tsi Rakaza pg-13. Five techno Whiz misfits steal a code breaking device at the Behest of the government. But which government starring Robert Bedford and Sidney Poilich. Aaa Guarav Slana r. A resentful second in command Gary Busey helps an cd Cia nut Case Tommy Lee Jones and his terrorists Lake Over he battleship Missouri. Aaa tha vanishing r. A psychological thriller about a Man who becomes obsessed with learning the Fate of his  who has mysteriously disappeared. Stars Jeff Uii Duci Kiefer us i Hiland and Nancy Travis. A Wayna a Forir r Mike Myers and Dana c Harvcy bring their skit to the big screen. Aaa Zabe Haar r. Interracial Romance is the subject of this teen age love Story. Starring Michael Rappaport. Alee an tha a arcs circuit ro-t3l City of Joy aaa i to acc of red. Ratings by state motor Chuck Emch. Andie Macdowell and Bill Murray team up to cover the unveiling of the groundhog in the comedy ground Kcf Chuck Vinch stall write Ron mov iks groundhog Day rated pea aaa Mustoe aaa Worth your Lima a passable Antar Talmant a coming Toon to a video outlet near you. And you can Wall with Little fanfare and even less self hype Bill Murray has become a National comic treasure melding a cynical Deadpan look his Lumpy face and an attitude of world weary nonchalance to sustain himself through a solid career. Even in films that have Little else going for them meatballs Springs to min Murray manages to make an Impact leaving laughs trailing in his Wake. And when he latches onto a meaty and original concept he a really a Joy to watch. Happily for moviegoers that a the Case in his latest collaboration with longtime buddy Harold Ramis with whom he worked on ghost busters and Cuddy Hack among others. Its a Complex and wildly inventive treatise on second chances human behaviour and the nature of god. Murray is Phil Connors a smarmy to Weatherman with a bloated ego an abrasive manner and delusions of grandeur. A a for your information Hairdo a major network is interested in me Quot he snidely tells a newscaster colleague. Quot yes that would be the Home shopping network Quot Chimes in his gregarious cameraman Larry Chris Elliot who cheerily absorbs Phil s continuous barbs. Phil is Grouchy about being assigned for the fourth time to travel with Larry and his gentle producer Rita Andie Macdowell to the annual groundhog festival in which Punxsutawney Phil pops out of his Hole to portend the end of Winter. It s no coincidence that the a groundhog and the Weatherman share the same name since both Are essentially rodents. The human Phil barely concealing his disdain for what he sees As a ridiculous ritual can hardly wait for the Day to end so he can leave this Hick town behind. Except the Day does t end. The next morning at 6 a.m., the clock radio once again plays Sonny and Cher a / got you babe and the news reports talk about the impending appearance of the groundhog. The weather report Calls for the same blizzard to hit and Phil is recognized on the Street by the same nerdy High school colleague Stephen Tobolowsky who approached him before. Phil soon realizes he a stuck in a cosmic time Loop and he a the Only one who is aware that the same Day is replaying itself endlessly. Director Ramis who also co wrote the script with Danny Rubin then sets Murray on a torturous by funny path to solving Phil s problem. For the longest time there does no to seem to be a solution. At first Phil is like an irresponsible kid knowing that no Nutter what he does the slate win be w ipod Dean the next morning. He stuffs himself with a gut busting array of donuts. He makes Small talk with a local woman so he can wow her with supposedly in it id knowledge the next Day on the Way to mane vering her int bed. He amazes the hotel guests by reeling off every answer during the same episode of jeopardy but that grows tiresome and he s not quite sure what to do next. Murray does the Best work of his career in taking Phil through the various stages that follow from boredom Quot a Breeze blows a dog barks Quot he sighs with existential angst a second before those things happen to depression to suicidal mania. Yet nothing changes. Every morning at 6 a.m., Sonny and Cher croon that sickening song. Quot i be been stabbed shot poisoned Frozen Hung electrocuted and burned Quot he rants to Rita a every Day i Wake up without a scratch. 1 am immortal. I am a god a god. Not the god i Don t  Ramis and Rubin falter a bit in Lead ing Phil to a Resolution of his dilemma in which Rita figures prominently. As is so often the Case in movies this involves having him grow As a human being. It is to Murray s credit that he avoid the worst of the Sappy cliches that tvs often characterize such big screen epiphanies. He gets Superb support from the alluring Macro we whose previous roles have tended to Jav Attray her As an Akif ice Queen. She May have finally found her True Nehe with this screwy Brand of comedy turning w a want understated performance As Phil s Fod in what has thus tar been a Drea a year for movie. The steady a Uva of laughs w hipped up s m of. I a a Ruhui and Ramis who has a Canso As a nearsighted neurologist makes pay the first Cert fed comedy h of i and. Is gets d a  v # Page 12 a sunday february 28.1993