Columbia Pictures Usually, this space is reserved for celebrating hallowed anniversaries but there aren't too many movies that have surpassed their holiday namesakes in popularity. Groundhog Day has. Bill Murray's comedy is now a genre classic and consistently named one of the best movies of the 1990s. Let's pay homage to the film with 20 interesting facts you never knew: 1. The idea for The Gay Science, which describes a man living the same day over and over. 2. Writer Danny Rubin said one of the inspirational moments in the creation of the story came after reading Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire, which got him thinking about what it would be like to live forever.