How To Write Groundhog Day

by Danny Rubin

Overview

Did screenwriter Danny Rubin know what he was doing when he invented Groundhog Day?  Or was he merely “the luckiest blind centerfielder ever to catch a fly ball out of the sun.”?  In How to Write Groundhog Day the popular Harvard lecturer takes you on an entertaining tour of his most famous screenplay, revealing the creative impulses and Hollywood pressures that together forged one of the most delightful and profoundly affecting comedies of all time.

From Pre-Hog through Hog to Post-Hog, How To Write Groundhog Day is the only book to give you the Whole Hog.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940014068031
Publisher:	Triad Publishing
Publication date:	01/28/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	934,618
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

After many years writing for professional theater companies as well as scripting industrial films and children’s television, Danny Rubin began writing screenplays. His screen credits include Hear No Evil, S.F.W., and Groundhog Day, for which he received the 1993 British Academy Award for Best Screenplay and the Critics’ Circle Award for Screenwriter of the Year, as well as honors from the Writers Guild of America and the American Film Institute.

Rubin has taught screenwriting in Chicago at the University of Illinois, Columbia College, and the National High School Institute; at the Sundance Institute in Utah; the PAL Screenwriting Lab in England; the Chautauqua Institution in New York; and in New Mexico at the College of Santa Fe. He is currently the Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on Screenwriting at Harvard University.

Rubin holds a BA in biology from Brown University and an MA in radio, television, and film from Northwestern University.

He is married to librarian, web designer, and architect Louise Rubin with whom he shares two children, a dog, and two inflatable fish.