Dir: Harold Ramis, 1993 (9*)

Self-centered and jaded weatherman Bill Murray, aka Phil, is bored to be reporting yet another Groundhog Day from Poughkeepsie, PA, with Phil the groundhog ("weather reports from rodents"). After the day is over, one major problem: Murray awakens to Groundhog Day again, and becomes trapped in the same day, over and over; not even suicide can keep the day from recurring from the beginning radio alarm (always the same dj line, the same song). What could have been boring becomes a terrific "what if" exercise, as he falls for producer Andie McDowell, and keeps changing his pitch on each successive day, as only he can remember the previous day, with hilarious and heartwarming results. They took the theme of "what if I just had one more chance" to the extreme. In a funny anecdote, McDowell said that scenes would be over, and Ramis and Murray would be staring at her and she'd have to say "Cut" or "isn't that a cut?" herself.
Quote: - A god, yes – but not THE God. (Murray)