Another triumph for Bill Murray...

Rating: 8/10 (1 October 2005)

Hardly profound, but likable and immensely satisfying comedy has nasty, uncouth TV weatherman forced by fate into reliving the same day, over and over again, until he becomes a better person. The film is surprisingly inventive, especially considering the story has to battle a fatigued sort of repetition. The cast is uniformly excellent, with Bill Murray giving an Oscar-worthy comedic performance (he wasn't nominated, probably because he makes pictures like this seems easy and lightweight); Andie MacDowell gives her freshest, loveliest performance as a woman Murray intends to win, if he can just modify his bad manners. Cantankerous leading characters can sometimes be a drag on the screen, even if their slow-building rehabilitation is done with a gentle touch, but here Murray and director Harold Ramis create an immensely flawed human being and make him funny and endearing. *** from ****