the groundhog day project

Larry only says around 330 words in Groundhog Day but I've seen comments from people online who love the character and who hate the character. Not a lot of lines. Not a lot there to go by in trying to figure out who Larry is. Even less to go by to answer a very specific question, one Phil asks Larry late in the film: does Larry have kids? On the morning Phil brings pastries and coffee, he says to Larry, "We never talk. Do you have kids?" Last night my daughter basically challenged me to answer that question. So, the first thing to do is figure out... What do we know about Larry? Larry works as a cameraman for a local station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He worked, presumably as a cameraman, in San Diego for at least five years--playing on the math, he could have covered "the swallows returning to Capistrano six years in a row" if he lived there for five years if the swallows were the very first and the very last thing he covered. Chris Elliott was born in...

I wrote about Larry's bar scene (and relationship chances) with Nancy way back on Day 32 . There isn't much dialogue to the exchange; it's mostly Larry... Larry: People just don’t understand what is involved in this. This is an art form. You know, I think that most people just think that I hold the camera and point it at stuff. There is a heck of a lot more to it than just that. Hey, would you be at all interested in seeing the inside of the van? Nancy: You know, I really have to get back to the party. Larry: Great idea. I think I’ll go with you. Let me just drop a tip here. And Larry puts maybe a dollar down and then quite deftly picks it right back up once Nancy isn't looking. Ryan Gilbey (2004) barely mentions this scene in his critique. "In the bar of the Pennsylvanian Hotel...," he writes, "Larry is trying, and failing, to seduce Nancy" (p. 76). The character of Larry is called "darkly funny" by Janet Maslin in The New York T...