Bill Murray plays Phil, a TV weatherman working for a local station in Pennsylvania but convinced that national news stardom is in his grasp.

Rating: 9/10 (9 February 2010)

Groundhog Day is first and foremost a comedy of ideas, on which score it never falters. A cynical weatherman (Bill Murray) must relive the same day over and over again until he sees the error of his ways.
A peerless conceit actually benefits from the comparatively bland, sitcom-ish direction - the main character seems trapped in the same banal episode of his life, and not even suicide works as a way out. It's the role of Murray's career and the most inspired comedy of the 1990s. In 2006, the film was added to the United States National Film Registry as being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."