“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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