“Groundhog Day” is a comedy, screenplay by Danny Rubin and Harold Ramis, and Directed by Harold Ramis.
TV
weatherman Phil (Bill Murray) reluctantly has to do an outside broadcast in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, on Groundhog Day, to cover the story about, what he calls, a weather
forecasting “rat”, Punxsutawney Phil, who is in fact a Groundhog.
Furthermore,
it’s his fourth year on the story, and he makes no effort to hide his displeasure.
But
he travels to Pennsylvania anyway with Producer Rita (Andie MacDowell) and
Cameraman Larry (Chris Elliott) and dutifully fulfils his obligation while
barely concealing his contempt for the whole event.
And
that night when he went to bed, he consoled himself that it was only one day,
but on awaking the following morning he discovers that it's Groundhog Day
again, and again, and again.
At
first he uses this anomaly to his advantage, to seduce women, be outrageous, be
obnoxious, all without consequence, but eventually he comes to the realisation
that he is doomed to spend the rest of eternity in the same place, seeing the
same people, do the same thing every day, unless he can change, if not the day
then himself.
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