Groundhog Day (1993)
Andie MacDowell: Rita
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Quotes
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Phil : [talking to a sleeping Rita] I think you're the kindest, sweetest, prettiest person I've ever met in my life. I've never seen anyone that's nicer to people than you are. The first time I saw you... something happened to me. I never told you but... I knew that I wanted to hold you as hard as I could. I don't deserve someone like you. But if I ever could, I swear I would love you for the rest of my life.
Rita : Did you say something?
Phil : Good night.
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Phil : This is one time where television really fails to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather. I, for one, am very grateful to have been here. From Punxsutawney, this is Phil Connors. So long.
Rita : Okay, want to try it again without the sarcasm?
Phil : We got it. I'm out of here.
Larry : Prima donnas.
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Rita : [as Phil kisses Rita over and over discovering that he has finally passed Groundhog Day] Phil, why weren't you like this last night? You just fell asleep.
Phil : It was the end of a very long day.
[looks into her eyes]
Phil : Is there anything I can do for you today?
Rita : I'm sure I can think of something.
[they kiss]
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Rita : [Phil has described several people in the diner] What about me, Phil? Do you know me too?
Phil : I know all about you. You like producing, but you hope for more than Channel 9 Pittsburgh.
Rita : Well, everyone knows that!
Phil : You like boats, but not the ocean. You go to a lake in the summer with your family up in the mountains. There's a long wooden dock and a boathouse with boards missing from the roof, and a place you used to crawl underneath to be alone. You're a sucker for French poetry and rhinestones. You're very generous. You're kind to strangers and children, and when you stand in the snow you look like an angel.
Rita : [in wonder] How are you doing this?
Phil : I told you. I wake up every day, right here, right in Punxsutawney, and it's always February 2nd, and there's nothing I can do about it.
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[Waking after a night of reading poetry and only chaste sleep with Rita, Phil jumps out of bed, determined to show himself as a new and likable man. He gives a wad of cash to the Old Man beggar and shows up early for the photo shoot, carrying a tray of coffees just the way that Rita and Larry like them, and with Larry's favorite pastry]
Phil : Who wants coffee? Get it while it's hot!
Rita : [surprised] Oh! Thanks, Phil!
Phil : [Handing Larry a lidded styrofoam container of coffee] Larry? Skim milk, two sugar.
Larry : [Also surprised] Yeah. Thanks, Phil!
Phil : Pastry?
[Phil offers the tray to Rita, who looks enticed, but says:]
Rita : No. We're just setting up.
Phil : Pastry, Larry? Take your pick.
Larry : Well, thanks, Phil. Raspberry, great.
Phil : Say, I was just talking with Buster Green, he's the head groundhog honcho. And he said, if we set up over here
[he points his thumb over his shoulder]
Phil : , we might get a better shot. What do you think?
[Rita is still surprised that Phil Connors is being so thoughtful and helpful]
Rita : Sounds good.
Phil : Larry, what do you think?
[It is obvious that Phil has never asked for Larry's opinion in his life, and Larry grins]
Larry : Yeah. Let's go for it.
Rita : [Pleased] Good work, Phil.
Phil : Maybe we'll get lucky. Let me give you a hand with the heavy stuff.
[Phil takes the backpack and news-camera]
Larry : Uh...
Phil : No, no, you got your coffee.
[They start to walk to the "better" spot]
Phil : We never talk, Larry. Do you have kids?
[Rita stares in astonishment, then slowly follows them]
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Rita : Three hundred and thirty-nine dollars and eighty-eight cents!
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Rita : You're not a god. You can take my word for it; this is twelve years of Catholic school talking.
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Phil : So what do you want out of life anyway?
Rita : I guess I want what everybody wants. You know, career, love, marriage, children.
Phil : Are you seeing anyone?
Rita : I think this is getting too personal. I don't think I'm ready to share this with you.
[Phil nods]
Rita : How about you? What do you want?
Phil : What I really want is someone like you.
Rita : [chuckles] Oh, please.
Phil : Well, why not? What are you looking for? Who is your perfect guy?
Phil : Well, first of all, he's too humble to know he's perfect.
Phil : That's me.
Rita : He's intelligent, supportive, funny...
Phil : Intelligent, supportive, funny... me, me, me...
Rita : He's romantic and courageous...
Phil : Me also...
Rita : He's got a good body, but he doesn't have to look in the mirror every two minutes.
Phil : I have a great body, and sometimes I go months without looking.
Rita : He's kind and sensitive and gentle, he's not afraid to cry in front of me...
Phil : This is a man we're talking about, right?
Rita : He likes animals and children and he'll change poopy diapers...
Phil : Does he have to use the word poopy?
Rita : Oh, and he plays an instrument, and he loves his mother.
Phil : I am really close on this one... really, really close.
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Phil : I think people place too much emphasis on their careers. I wish we could all live in the mountains at high altitude. That's where I see myself in five years. How about you?
Rita : Oh, I agree. I just like to go with the flow. See where it leads me.
Phil : Well, it's led you here.
Rita : Mm hmm. Of course it's about a million miles from where I started out in college.
Phil : You weren't in broadcasting or journalism?
Rita : Uh unh. Believe it or not, I studied 19th-century French poetry.
Phil : [laughs] What a waste of time! I mean, for someone else that would be an incredible waste of time. It's so bold of you to choose that. It's incredible; you must have been a very very strong person.
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Rita : [to Phil] What are you looking for Phil? A date for the weekend?
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Rita : It's groundhog time.
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Rita : The wretch, concentred all in self, living, shall forfeit fair renown, and doubly dying, shall go down, to the vile dust from whence he sprung - unwept, unhonored, and unsung. Sir Walter Scott.
Phil : [laughs] Ha, ha, ha.
Rita : What, you don't like poetry?
Phil : I love poetry. I just thought that was Willard Scott.