“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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