"Groundhog Day"

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"Groundhog Day," directed by Harold Ramis, is a humorous look at how the main character relives the same day over and over again until he gets it "right". This paper examines how this character, played by Bill Murray, deals with stress and stressors in the move. This paper approaches the film from a psychological perspective.

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"One of the coping mechanisms Phil used was suicide as a way out of his problem. That did not work so he had to find another way to deal with his dilemma and his stress. He also uses manipulation as he tries to get to know Rita and make her fall in love with him. He manipulates her day after day to learn everything about her and become the "perfect" man for her. However, he finds that finally this does not work anyway, and he becomes the perfect man by altering his own personality and his own way of thinking."

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