Groundhog Day vs On Borrowed Time

Groundhog Day and On Borrowed Time are tied on audience score (7.6/10). On Borrowed Time is the shorter watch at 1h 39m compared with 1h 41m. On Borrowed Time is the older of the two (1939 against 1993). Both are comedy, drama, fantasy movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Groundhog Day posterGroundhog Day1993 VS On Borrowed Time posterOn Borrowed Time1939
Groundhog DayOn Borrowed Time
Audience score★ 7.6/10★ 7.5/10
Year19931939
Length1h 41m1h 39m
GenresComedy, Drama, Fantasy, RomanceComedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country––
DirectorHarold RamisHarold S. Bucquet
Main castKen Hudson Campbell, Bill Murray, Rick Ducommun, Stephen Tobolowsky, Chris ElliottJames Burke, Lionel Barrymore, Cedric Hardwicke, Beulah Bondi, Una Merkel

Synopsis

Groundhog Day

A narcissistic TV weatherman, along with his attractive-but-distant producer, and his mawkish cameraman, is sent to report on Groundhog Day in the small town of Punxsutawney, where he finds himself repeating the same day over and over.

On Borrowed Time

Young Pud is orphaned and left in the care of his aged grandparents. The boy and his grandfather are inseparable. Gramps is concerned for Pud's future and wary of a scheming relative who seeks custody of the child. One day Mr. Brink, an agent of Death, arrives to take Gramps "to the land where the woodbine twineth." Through a bit of trickery, Gramps confines Mr. Brink, and thus Death, to the branches of a large apple tree, giving Gramps extra…

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