![]() ![]() When it ran out of bananas, it started eating Bill.” ![]() Harold Ramis told both the HR and LAT that Scooter the groundhog bit Bill Murray twice during a scene in which Murray’s character, “Phil Connors,” kidnaps the animal: “The groundhog will do whatever you want as long as you keep feeding it bananas. The DV reported the budget was $28 million. A bedroom interior for Bill Murray's character was built and filmed in a warehouse in Cary, IL, and a second unit shot exteriors in the Pittsburgh, PA, area. Principal photography began in Woodstock and ended in Chicago, IL. Randy Rupert sculpted ice figures, including a bust of Andie MacDowell’s character, “Rita.” “Scooter,” the groundhog that portrayed “Punxsutawney Phil,” had at least three stand-ins. ![]() Production designer Dave Nichols built the "Tip Top Café," used prominently in the film, on the town square, and constructed the "Gobbler’s Knob" set using local children’s art for decoration. ![]() According to production notes in AMPAS library files, actor Bill Murray, co-screenwriter Danny Rubin, and first assistant director Mike Haley attended a Groundhog Day festival in Punxsutawney, PA, but filmmaker Harold Ramis claimed the town “didn’t have the kind of town center we needed for the film." Instead, Ramis chose “the tiny village of Woodstock, IL,” which he called “the classic small town of the imagination.” For the exterior and interior of the "Pennsylvanian Hotel," the production used Woodstock’s opera house. ![]()
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