Groundhogs, also known
as woodchucks and whistle - pigs, can be found in most of the eastern U.S., but there's one whose predictions are valued more highly than others.
STARRING Emma Stone as OLIVE Penn Badgley
as WOODCHUCK Amanda Bynes as MARIANNE Dan Byrd as BRANDON Thomas Haden Church as MR. GRIFFITH Patricia Clarkson as ROSEMARY Cam Gigandet as MICAH Lisa Kudrow as MRS. GRIFFITH Malcolm McDowell as PRINCIPAL GIBBONS Aly Michalka as RHIANNON Stanley Tucci as DILL
Starring: Emma Stone as Olive Penderghast, Stanley Tucci as Dill Penderghast, Amanda Bynes as Marianne, Cam Gigandet as Micah, Lisa Kudrow as Mrs. Griffith, Malcolm McDowell as Principal Gibbons, Penn Badgley
as Woodchuck Todd, Patricia Clarkson as Rosemary Penderghast, Dan Byrd as Brandon, Thomas Haden Church as Mr. Griffith, Aly Michalka as Rhiannon, Juliette Goglia as Eighth Grade Olive, Johanna Braddy as Melanie, Stacey Travis as Marianne's Mom, Jake Sandvig as Anson
Not exact matches
It's also a high school that doesn't feel
as authentic
as her home life or the boy (
Woodchuck Todd) who occasionally shows up throughout the picture.
Indian lore has it that their forbears began life
as animals; the
woodchuck was recognized
as the «grandfather» of the earliest inhabitants of the area.
One of those species is the
woodchuck (also known
as the groundhog), which ranges from the southeastern United States to Alaska.
Under the Dome opens with a signature Stephen King moment: a
woodchuck, foraging for food, hides from a passing human — and is chopped in half
as an impenetrable dome appears around the city limits.
The history of Groundhog Day can be traced back to 1887, when a newspaper editor — who moonlighted
as a groundhog hunter — from Punxsutawney, Philadelphia, declared that the town was home to a veritable weather - predicting groundhog (sometimes called a
woodchuck).