Films

8.7Skry

Groundhog Day

1993

A TV weatherman with a gift for condescension gets sent to cover Groundhog Day in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, and finds himself locked in a loop, waking every morning to the same six o'clock alarm and the same Sonny and Cher. Harold Ramis builds the film as a comedy whose engine is repetition — the same beats hit with incremental variation, Murray's reactions shifting from bafflement to hedonism to something more searching as the days accumulate into an uncountable span. What keeps it from becoming a stunt is that the loop is never explained or resolved on mechanical terms; the film treats the premise as a given and lets character carry the weight.