An original

Rating: Null/10 (21 August 2011)

Sent to Punxatawny to broadcast on the annual Groundhog Day festivities, obnoxious, ambitious, arrogant TV weatherman Phil (Bill Murray) is put out because he regards the assignment as beneath him. Further irritated due to being snowed in, his annoyance is complete when he finds himself waking up, over and over, to the same day.
This film, nominally a comedy, almost defies classification. At the heart of it is the way Phil's experience of re-living the same day over and over gradually liberates him from the petty minded unpleasantness which governs his life, and enables his innate likability (which he has suppresses) to come out. But the variations in the repeat experiences is perhaps the easiest element for the viewer to enjoy, particularly when Phil comes to realise that he can actually do anything he wants in the knowledge that he will be free of the consequences when Sonny and Cher wake him again next morning.
There is never any explanation for this, and it doesn't matter in the slightest - the film is always entertaining, always interesting, and is a true original.