Bill Murray Movies
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Bill Murray Movies

Bill Murray's résumé reads like a greatest-hits list of plum roles from the last three decades. Which of these top twenty Bill Murray movies do you think represents the beloved actor's finest hour?

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1 Groundhog Day
Murray is obnoxious weatherman Phil, who is forced by fate to relive the same day again and again. 1211 2343
2 Ghostbusters
"Nobody steps on a church in my town." So says Dr. Peter Venkman, a ghost-exterminator extraordinaire. 1182 2220
3 Caddyshack
As the gopher-hunting, pot-smoking groundskeeper Carl Spackler, Murray totally steals the show. 1157 2067
4 Stripes
When sassy, unkempt womanizer John enlists in the U.S. Army, the armed forces will never be the same. 986 1832
5 What About Bob?
"You think he's gone? He's not gone. That's the whole point! He's never gone!" So says Murray's addled therapist of him. 558 1880
6 Scrooged
Dickens's story gets a sarcastic spin when Bill Murray, as TV exec Frank Cross, says, "Bah humbug!" 550 1318
7 Lost in Translation
Sofia Coppola's downbeat movie stars Tokyo, Bill Murray, and Scarlett Johansson -- all happy together. 204 1666
8 Kingpin
Amish hustlers! Rubber hands! And Murray's bowling pro Ernie McCracken is at the heart of it all. 168 1546
9 Meatballs
The then-unknown actor's starring role in this Canadian campfire comedy launched Murray into the spotlight. 143 1441
10 Rushmore
Murray plays the unlikely buddy of Jason Schwartzman's young oddball, in a role that redefined his career. 62 1330
11 Little Shop of Horrors
A small role but a good one: Murray is the masochistic patient Steve Martin's mad dentist can't make flinch. 19 1311
12 The Royal Tenenbaums
In his second collaboration with director Wes Anderson, Murray is a horrible husband, brilliant psychologist, and proud turtleneck wearer. 14 1332
13 The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
Our hero is the titular red-beanie-wearing oceanographer, who finds redemption via the hunt for his own white whale. -23 1393
14 Tootsie
An underheralded role as Dustin Hoffman's barfly buddy finds Murray delivering drunken rants that are pure comedy gold. -33 1247
15 The Man Who Knew Too Little
Murray as a bumbling goofball mistaken for an assassin in a Hitchcock spoof? Gloriously funny. -127 1153
16 Broken Flowers
Equal parts sad and sardonic, Murray tones it down as a former Don Juan who goes on a quest to find his long-lost son. -398 1022
17 Coffee and Cigarettes
Murray destroys the title short in Jim Jarmusch's collection by wittily discussing life and vices with the Wu-Tang's GZA and RZA. -424 954
18 City of Ember
Murray has a nuanced, sad, brilliant turn as the mayor of a city buried far below the Earth's surface. -430 944
19 Hamlet
An Uber-sarcastic comedic actor playing poor doomed Polonius in the drama to end all dramas? Ain't no thing. -502 884
20 Cradle Will Rock
Murray plays sad-funny ventriloquist Tommy Crickshaw alongside an A-list cast directed by Tim Robbins. -513 855