Groundhog Day (1993-PG)

FEATURE POP-UP MOVIE!

(No pun intended…)

Phil Connor, an arrogant and selfish television weatherman is assigned his fourth year of covering the Groundhog Day festivities in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, where he becomes trapped in a time loop. He must re-live Groundhog Day, February 2, day after day after day. No matter what he does, when he wakes up the next morning, it’s as if yesterday never happened. Except that he remembers that day and all the ones before it, but he’s the only one who does. Since there is no tomorrow, there are no consequences. If Phil eats too much, drinks too much, robs an armored car, or jumps off a tall building, the next morning dawns as if none of that had happened. He can also learn what women admire and use that knowledge to seduce them on the next day.

Initially, Phil indulges all his appetites, but then he becomes bored and despondent. Not even suicide is a release. Finally, resigned to his fate, Phil discovers that he likes to play the piano and that there is satisfaction in helping people. He finds that his producer, a young woman for whom he only had contempt, is the sweetest person he has ever met. He falls in love with her and to his surprise finds himself released.